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A new Cité de l'Espace
The space adventure park in Toulouse has completely redesigned and renewed its permanent exhibitions. The result is an interactive immersion into man's enthusiasm for the stars.
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@explorezmars: Curiosity live!
On Monday 6 August the Mars rover Curiosity should land on the red planet. From today Enjoy Space and Cité de l’Espace are offering you the chance to follow this event on Twitter, and then by video, direct from the NASA JPL in California!
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Soyuz in Guiana
This is the mythical rocket par excellence, the one that launched Sputnik, the first satellite and Gagarin, the first man in space. The CSG, Guiana Space Centre, is now one of its launch bases: a historic achievement.
ATHLETE’s dance
ATHLETE (All-Terrain Hex-Limbed Extra-Terrestrial Explorer) is an extremely serious project run by NASA’s JPL, Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The project consists of designing a robotic mobile platform capable of moving and using its hinged legs to get over obstacles in order to transport different types of modules (some habitable) on the Moon, Mars or other destinations.
Nevertheless, the engineers working on this project have a good sense of humour and have made this short film which shows their prototype dancing. All the movements are real, but the editing has greatly accelerated the rhythm.
JPL’s ATHLETE website
Published on 7 February 2012
