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• NASA's robot may get Japanese space companion

  The humanoid robot taking off in NASA's space shuttle Discovery tomorrow afternoon could get a companion in a few years when the Japanese Space Agency plans to send its own robot to the International Space Station.

• Feds charge professed White Hat hackers in breach of AT&T iPad customer data

  Professed White Hat hackers face federal criminal charges for grabbing the e-mail addresses of 114,000 AT&T 3G customers who use iPads.

• NASA appoints new information security chief

  NASA this week appointed Valarie Burks as its deputy CIO for Information Technology Security.

• Apache to steward NASA built middleware

  The Apache Software Foundation is extending its breadth of open-source software projects to include a package of data-management middleware developed by the NASA U.S. government space agency.

• Hackers could use leaked Gawker info to attack gov't workers

  Passwords used by people employed by US federal, state and local governments were among those disclosed by the Gawker hack over the weekend, according to a report by PBS NewsHour on Monday.

• 10 free iPhone apps for spectacular stargazing

  There's a lot to watch in the nighttime sky -- everything from the International Space Station and meteor showers to planets and stars.

• NASA wants its data up in the clouds

  NASA is backing open source cloud computing with a single goal in mind: to stick to space exploration and stop running data centers.

• Why NASA Mars lab turns to cloud computing

  The NASA team behind the Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers--the Jet Propulsion Laboratory--has announced a move to cloud computing.

• NASA wants to run space missions, not data centers

  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is backing open source cloud computing with a long-term goal in mind: to get out of the data center business.

• NASA: Astronaut will ride robot arm in emergency spacewalk

  Astronauts will use robotics in at least one of two emergency spacewalks that have been set up to make critical repairs to the International Space Station after part of its cooling system stopped working over the weekend.

• NASA gives up frozen Mars Lander for dead

  NASA scientists have given up hope of finding any signs of life from the Phoenix Mars Lander, giving the robotic machine up for dead on the Martian surface.

• NASA: Spacewalking astronauts install battery on solar array

  Two NASA astronauts today installed two new batteries on the International Space Station's solar array, which should keep the orbiter powered up for years to come.

• NASA astronauts attach Russian module to space station

  NASA astronauts today successfully attached a Russian-built research module to the International Space Station during the second spacewalk scheduled for the space shuttle <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9176803/Shuttle_i_Atlantis_i_launches_on_its_last_mission">Atlantis' final mission</a> .

• NASA: After 30 years and 115 million miles, space shuttle program nears the end

  Nearly 30 years and 115 million miles after NASA launched its first <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts132/multimedia/gallery/Padam.html">space shuttle</a> , the agency is preparing for the launch of Atlantis -- the final mission for the trusty spacecraft.

• NASA looking to six-legged robot to build human outpost on Mars

  NASA is building a six-legged robot that can walk or roll on wheels, and, it hopes, ultimately help set up a habitat on Mars for the later arrivals of astronauts.