June 14, 1962: Western Europe Officially Joins the Space Race
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The establishment of the forerunner to the European Space Agency marks the continent's debut as a major player outside the atmosphere.
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On July 6th, 2006, European astronaut Thomas Reiter joined the International Space Station Expedition 13 crew. His mission: Astrolab, Europe's first long-duration mission to the ISS.
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After a seven-year journey through space, passing Venus and Jupiter, a joint European-US mission to Saturn will enter a new phase tomorrow when the spacecraft Cassini releases its Huygens
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With the launch of the German ROKVISS robotic experiment from the Russian spaceport Baikonur to the International Space Station on 24 December 2004, space robotics will enter a new dimension.
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: MOJAVE, United States ( A private manned rocketship blasted through the Earth&#39;s atmosphere into space after a hair-raising corkscrew ascent on a flight aimed at capturing a 10-million-dollar prize.
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By The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Dec. 10--When President John F. Kennedy challenged America to go to the moon in 1962, it was in the middle of the Cold War and the Soviet Union's space program was well ahead of ours. Americans worried about a "space gap" and Soviet domination of the heavens.
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Europeâs new Columbus science module became a permanent part of the International Space Station on Monday.
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Summary - (Nov 4, 2004) European astronomers have produced the first image of an object using high energy gamma rays - the most penetrating form of radiation known.
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1230CET--The Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi joined other European Union leaders in Rome and signed the new treaty which sets up the first European constitution.
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Europe's first mission to the Moon, the unmanned probe SMART-1, has been safely placed in orbit around the Moon, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced.
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It was the starting point for dozens of commercial communications satellites, military spacecraft and pioneering space probes, including the first man-made object to journey outside our solar system.
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The events of the days leading up to Wednesdayâs flight of SpaceShipOne had generated considerable momentum for space tourism and commercial space development in general.
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The rocket was launched from the Alcantara base in northern Brazil to conduct experiments just outside Earth&#39;s atmosphere. The launch Saturday came 14 months after a deadly rocket explosion at the Altcantara
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Europe finally got a place of its own in space when astronauts attached the European laboratory Columbus to the International Space Station on Monday.
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Europe's "super rocket" which can lift multiple and heavier satellites into orbit prepares for its first trip to space.
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Astronauts and cosmonauts meet in space for the first time when Apollo and Soyuz perform the first international space docking.
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In one of the defining moments of the 20th century, indeed in all of human history, Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to set foot on the moon.