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April 14: To mark Yuri Gagarin’s historic flight, “Yuri’s Night” and “YuriGagarin50” teamed up with the astronauts onboard the International Space Station to film a new view of what Gagarin would have seen as he travelled around the planet. |
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April 13: Space now affects our everyday lives and makes an important contribution to the economies of the world. |
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This week marks 50 years since Yuri Gagarin climbed into his space ship and was launched into space. It took him just 108 minutes to orbit Earth and he returned as the World’s very first space man.
To mark this historic flight, Yuri’s Night and YuriGagarin50 teamed up with the astronauts onboard the International Space Station to film a new … Read the rest of this article
2009 was another trailblazing year for NASA as America’s space agency reached a number of important milestones on Earth and in space. During the year, NASA upgraded the Hubble Space Telescope, discovered water on the moon, increased the number of people living on the International Space Station, and mapped our planet’s location in the Milky Way galaxy with new precision. … Read the rest of this article
NASA released an interactive, 3-D photographic collection of internal and external views of the International Space Station and a model of the next Mars rover on Thursday, May 7.
NASA and Microsoft’s Virtual Earth team developed the online experience with hundreds of photographs and Microsoft’s photo imaging technology called Photosynth. Using a click-and-drag interface, viewers can zoom in to see … Read the rest of this article
NASA landed on Mars, photographed distant worlds, added to the International Space Station, took part in a lunar science mission with India and made major progress toward returning astronauts to the moon as the agency celebrated its 50th birthday in 2008. Here on Earth, NASA researchers recorded the continued decline of Arctic sea ice, won awards for aviation breakthroughs, discovered … Read the rest of this article
The era of Space Tourism began on April 28, 2001 when Denis Tito was launched into space in a Russian Soyuz capsule. Tito, a multi-millionaire reputed to have paid $20 million for the trip, proved that traveling beyond Earth’s gravity was not just the province of a select few, but that anyone with drive, determination – and at that point … Read the rest of this article
Picture this: You’re one of several astronauts homeward bound after a three-year mission to Mars. Halfway back from the Red Planet, your spacecraft starts suffering intermittent electrical outages. So you remove a little-used service panel to check some wiring.
To your unbelieving eyes, floating in midair in the microgravity near the wiring is a shivering, shimmering globule of dirty water … Read the rest of this article
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