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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.
An Italian woman aboard the ISS
The European Space Agency has officially announced that its Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is to take part in a 6-7 month-long mission aboard the International Space Station during 2014. Before her, her fellow countryman Luca Parmitano will blast off to the ISS at the end of May 2013 as a member of Expeditions 36 and 37. A year later, it will be the turn of German astronaut Alexander Gerst for Expeditions 40 and 41. And then, in November 2014, it will be Samantha Cristoforetti’s turn to take part in Expeditions 42 and 43. She will therefore be the first Italian woman to go into space.
We would reiterate that the mission of another European aboard the ISS, Dutchman André Kuipers, recently came to an end on 1 July (see this article).
Published on 4 July 2012
