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Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft
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On July 20, 1999, the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing and one day shy of the 38th anniversary of Mercury 4's suborbital flight, a team led by Curt Newport and financed by the Discovery Channel, Oceaneering International, Inc. lifted the Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft off the floor of the At...
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Odyssey 2 mission
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Title: Odyssey 2 : A mission toward Neptune and Triton to test General Relativity Authors: Benjamin Lenoir, Bruno Christophe, Agnès Lévy, Bernard Foulon, Serge Reynaud, Jean-Michel Courty, Brahim Lamine, Hansjörg Dittus, Tim van Zoest, Claus Lämmerzahl, Hanns Selig, Sylvie Léon-Hirtz, Rich...
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MagISStra and DAMA missions
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The highlights of MagISStra and DAMA missions Two high-profile European space missions came to end in May and June. Paolo Nespoli returned to Earth on 24 May, after spending almost six months aboard the International Space Station on his M...
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When Artemis talks, Johannes Kepler listens After Ariane 5 lofts ATV Johannes Kepler into space on 15 February, ESA's Artemis data relay satellite will be ready for action. Artemis will provide communications between Johannes Kepler and the ATV Control Centre (ATV-CC) in Toulouse, France. Hove...
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Soyuz TMA-21 is a planned 2011 flight to the International Space Station. It will transport three members of the Expedition 27 crew to the International Space Station. Read more Ed ~ The launch is scheduled for 00:41 GMT, 30th March, 201...
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Venera 5
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Venera 5 (manufacturer's designation: 2V (V-69)) was a probe in the Soviet space program Venera for the exploration of Venus. During satellite descent towards the surface of Venus, a parachute opened to slow the rate of descent. For 53 minutes on May 16, 1969, while the capsule was suspended from th...
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NASA's Discovery Program
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NASA Selects Investigations for Future Key Missions NASA has selected three science investigations from which it will pick one potential 2016 mission to look at Mars' interior for the first time; study an extraterrestrial sea on one of Saturn's moons; or study in unprecedented detail the surface...
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In-space CRYOSTAT mission
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In-Space Cryogenic Propellant Storage and Transfer Demonstration Mission Concept Studies NASA is examining potential mission concepts for an In-Space Cryogenic Propellant Storage and Transfer Demonstration. The flight demonstration mission will test and validate key capabilities and t...
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LEnse-Thirring Sun-Geo Orbiter
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Title: LETSGO: a spacecraft-based mission to accurately measure the solar angular momentum with frame-dragging Authors: Lorenzo Iorio LETSGO (LEnse-Thirring Sun-Geo Orbiter) is a proposed space-based mission involving the use of a spacecraft moving along a highly eccentric heliocentric...
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Paraglider Development Program
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Gemini astronauts might have winged their way home if NASA's Paraglider Development Program had succeeded. On April 29, 1963, NASA set a Gemini flight schedule that included "water landing by a parachute, for the first six flights and land landing by paraglider from flight 7 on," said t...
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Soyuz 10
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Soyuz 10 (Russian: Union 10) was a 1971 Soviet manned mission to the world's first space station, Salyut 1. However, the docking was not successful and the crew returned to Earth without having entered the station. Read more
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Kavoshgar 4
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Iran sends first 'life capsule' into orbit Iran says it has sent the country's first space capsule that is able to sustain life into orbit as a test for a future mission that may carry a live animal The state IRNA news agency says the capsule was carried by a rocket dubbed Kavoshgar-4 - or Explorer-4 in Fa...
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Salyut 1
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Salyut 1 (DOS-1) was the first space station of any kind, launched by the USSR on April 19, 1971. Read more
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Dark Ages Radio Explorer
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Probing the First Stars and Black Holes in the Early Universe with the Dark Ages Radio Explorer DARE: a proposed NASA Mission to probe the early Universe. The Dark Ages Radio Explorer (DARE) science objectives include: (1) When did the first stars form? (2) When did the first accreting black holes fo...
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STS-1 mission
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STS-1 was the first orbital flight of NASA's Space Shuttle, launched on 12 April 1981, and returning to Earth 14 April. Space Shuttle Columbia orbited the Earth 37 times in this 54.5-hour mission. Read more
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