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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.
Spaceship Earth
As explained in this article, the International Space Station’s Expedition 32 has started, but not all the crew are aboard as yet. With the return of André Kuipers, Oleg Kononenko and Donald Pettit, Gennady Padalka (Commander), Sergei Revin and Joe Acaba are now waiting for Sunita Williams, Hakihiko Hoshide and Yuri Malenchenko to join them on 15 July 2012.
The 6 Expedition 32 crewmembers pay tribute to our planet with their mission poster (see below) by looking down on it with benevolence and admiration. This is obviously a way of highlighting its fragility by means of the “Spaceship Earth” concept. Just like the astronauts who have to take care of their spaceship or station in order to survive, Humankind has to take care of its own spaceship, the Earth.
Published on 3 July 2012
