To sum up: the sky in the palm of your hand and at your fingertips on iPod Touch or iPhone! Only by using it, can you realize how amazingly efficient this application, exclusively designed (not an adaptation) for Apple’s personal portable media player and telephone, is. Ergonomics have not been forgotten and the majority of the functions are quickly mastered. Starmap is, therefore, the ultimate pocket planetarium, ideal for getting your bearings in the canopy of heaven, knowing the phases of the Moon and, of course, identifying where planets are. But the application can do much more, if its user so wishes, notably in its Pro version capable of simulating a telescope eyepiece field.
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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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