Team Phoenix will be observing Yuri's Night, an international celebration of space exploration, time to coincide with the anniversary of the first manned space flight, by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.  This year is the 50th anniversary of that first flight, and coincidentally it's also the 30th anniversary of the first Space Shuttle flight.

Given the prominent role that robotics has played in space exploration, from the earliest Soviet efforts to explore the moon, through our own Ranger, Surv...
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