ESA director discusses space missions
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As a young space scientist in the early 1980s, David Southwood backed an offbeat idea for a joint U.S.-European mission to Saturn's moon Titan: Let the Europeans build the spacecraft's lander.
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In the night of 15-16 November, ESA&#39;s Smart-1 space probe is scheduled to enter into an orbit around the Moon. This operation is not without danger, as it means traversing an area in which the gravitational
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Official pens seeing plenty of action It's all go this week for the European Space Agency, ESA. The agency has ordered the first satellites for its Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme, and finalised details of how it will work with NASA on two massive projects: the James Webb Space Telescope and the LISA Pathfinder mission.â¦
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UK space scientists and engineers design a mission to investigate a potentially hazardous asteroid.
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In a matter of days the European Space Agency&#39;s (ESA) SMART-1 spacecraft will enter orbit around the Moon. It will adjust its position and prepare for the scientific investigation of the lunar surface that will begin in January.
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PARIS -- If you have planetary vision, want to be on the cutting edge and don't get bored easily, the European Space Agency may be looking for you.
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Russia and the European Space Agency (Esa) sign an agreement to allow closer co-operation.
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By Steve Scott, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Sep. 14--While one Minnesotan walks in space, another is anchored at Houston Mission Control as the lead flight director of the Atlantis shuttle mission.
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A helping hand for Venus Express The European Space Agency (ESA) has enlisted the help of several ground-based telescopes for a project to complement Venus Express' study of our twin planet.â¦
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WASHINGTON -- NASA and the vision for space exploration received a rare plug from President George W. Bush on Tuesday when the U.S. leader told a Cleveland audience why he decided in 2004 to have the space agency set its sights on the Moon.
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That&#39;s the recommendation from a panel from the National Academy of Sciences concerning a mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Industrial groups in Europe are about to look in detail at ideas for a new launch system to put humans in space.
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To the European Space Agency, Atlantis's cargo represents an historic turning point in space history
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China&#39;s second manned space mission would take place in September 2005, the Beijing News quoted a high-ranking space official as saying Thursday.
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Detecting ions, or charged particles from either solar wind or comet tails, is one goal for the comet-chasing space probe, Rosetta.    Astrobiology Magazine -- The Ion and Electron Spectrometer (IES), one of three NASA instruments aboard the European Space Agency (ESA) Rosetta comet orbiter, successfully underwent an intensive commissioning exercise that qualified it for operation during the next decade...
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The renowned physicist has always had a hankering for space travel. He'll start with a brief zero-gravity flight in April. By the Associated Press.
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Data obtained by the ESA probe Mars Express and the US spacecraft Mars Odyssey show that in some equatorial locations, low-atmosphere levels of water vapor and methane &quot;significantly overlap,&quot; says the ESA.