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Eyjafjöll from space

Made famous by the consequences of its smoke plume as regards air transportation, the Icelandic volcano is being monitored by satellites.

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Comet Lovejoy

It ought to have disappeared as it passed so close to the Sun; but it survived and deployed a magnificent comet’s tail that could be seen in the southern hemisphere and from the ISS.
Christmas on board the ISS

Astronauts up in space do not miss out on Christmas celebrations and even put up a few decorations.
Goodbye Earth!

Heading towards Jupiter, the Juno probe has just photographed the Earth as it moves further and further away. This is the chance to look back at several pictures of our planet, taken by probes as they leave, or as they orbit other worlds.
Atlantis closes space shuttle era

Atlantis’ STS-135 mission from 8 to 21 July 2011 was the last of NASA’s 30-year space shuttle programme.
Apollo 15: a car on the Moon

40 years ago, America landed on the Moon for the fourth time. But this mission was novel in that the moonwalkers were also car drivers! The aim? To explore our natural satellite more efficiently.

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.
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.
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.