To mark ESA astronaut Frank De Winne’s six-month OasISS mission to the International Space Station, and triggered by his role as goodwill ambassador for UNICEF Belgium, ESA’s Human Spaceflight Education Team has teamed up with UNICEF to launch an online quiz for 12-14 year old European children.
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SPACE.com – A NASA spacecraft has snapped new views of the Earth togetherwith its moon, which the spacecraft is scheduled to slam into in October.
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With launch just two months away, members of the SMOS team are currently in Russia inspecting the facilities where the launch campaign will soon get underway to prepare the ESA’s water mission for liftoff on 2 November.
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ESA, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the German federal state of Bavaria and the German bank Kreissparkasse München Starnberg opened the fourth ESA Business Incubation Centre in Oberpfaffenhofen on 3 August. Over the next four years, some 40 company start-ups are expected to be supported there.
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Cyprus signed a Cooperation Agreement with ESA on 27 August 2009. The objective of this agreement is to allow Cyprus and ESA to create the framework for more-intensive cooperation in ESA projects in the future.
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AP – A spacewalk by two astronauts is still on for Thursday evening even though a large piece of space junk is headed their way.
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Reuters – An Indonesian communications satellite launched from China failed to enter a preset orbit, state media reported, in another setback in China’s efforts to market its space launch capability.
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SPACE.com – Astronautsaboard the space shuttle Discovery have got a case of stuffy heads, but NASAdoesn’t think they’re sick.
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SPACE.com – It was movingday at the International Space Station Monday as astronauts installed a cargomodule packed full of fresh supplies, science gear and a treadmill named after comedianStephen Colbert.
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SPACE.com – The fierce wildfire burning north of Los Angeles isincreasingly becoming a threat to historic Mount Wilson Observatory, whereastronomers from Edwin Hubble to George Ellery Hale made key discoveries aboutthe cosmos.
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