The Regional Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées Group of the 3AF, “Association Aéronautique et Astronautique de France” (French Aeronautics and Astronautics Association) is organising a special conference on space tourism. Entitled “Les vols spatiaux privés: le début d’une nouvelle ère” (Private space flights: the beginning of a new era), it is to be chaired by Garrett Smith (founder of the working group on space tourism at the 3AF) and Dominique Teyssier who has reserved a seat aboard a future flight with the company Virgin Galactic.
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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.
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Star Trek and NASA
The first episode of this famous science-fiction series was broadcast in September 1966. NASA has often made references to these programmes, as in the case of the space shuttle Enterprise, which had the same name as the spaceship in the series.
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Alan Shepard, from suborbital to the Moon
50 years ago on 5 May 1961, a few weeks after Gagarin, American Alan Shepard reached space. Several years later, he was to walk on the Moon, summarising as it were the race in which the Soviet Union and the United States were competing.
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