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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.
Soyuz TMA-09M blasts off live
Tuesday 28 May at 22:31 (French time), the ESA’s Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano, American Karen Nyberg and Russian Fyodor Yurchikhin are to blast off from Baikonur to the ISS aboard the Soyuz TMA-09M spaceship.
Yuri’s Night, an entertaining space evening
The Cité de l’Espace is hosting its Yuri’s Night (an allusion to Gagarin and the World Space Party) on Friday 31 May as of 19:00 with themed catering and 3 wacky films: Mars Attacks, Barbarella and La Folle Histoire de l’Espace (Spaceballs).
Elon Musk’s other wager
With his company SpaceX, this entrepreneur from the Internet is selling NASA flights of his Dragon cargo ship to the ISS. In addition to the space industry, he is also revolutionising the car trade with a line of 100% electric vehicles that is meeting with approval.
Timothy Peake to go to the ISS in 2015
The European Space Agency’s British astronaut is to take part in Expeditions 46 and 47 on board the International Space Station. He is due to blast off to the orbiting complex in November 2015 and will stay in space for about 6 months.
Proba-V examining vegetation
Successfully launched on 6 May 2013 via the European Vega launch vehicle, the small, 160 kg Proba-V satellite belonging to the ESA, recently activated its Vegetation instrument and is now providing an assessment of the vegetation cover of our entire planet every 48 hours.
The Station, Star Trek and the future
A video link united Chris Cassidy aboard the ISS and, back on Earth, members of the crew from the new Star Trek film, two of NASA’s astronauts and two museums, one in New York and the other in Washington, on 16 May 2013.
Your name around Mars
MAVEN is scheduled to take off in November and NASA is offering you the opportunity to include your name for free on a DVD which will be placed on this spacecraft set to orbit the Red Planet from September 2014.
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