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Cosimo · 19 Nov 2012 at 14:51

Back home:

Expedition 33 Lands

The Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft is seen shortly after it landed with Expedition 33 Commander Sunita Williams of NASA and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko in a remote area of Kazakhstan, on Nov. 19, 2012. Williams, Hoshide and Malenchenko returned from four months onboard the International Space Station.

Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Cosimo · 19 Nov 2012 at 18:47

Cosimo · 20 Nov 2012 at 22:51

Welcome aboard:

Cosimo · 21 Nov 2012 at 06:40

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Cosimo · 21 Nov 2012 at 09:12

EchoStar XVI satellite launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome:

http://www.ilslaunch.com/newsroom/news-releases/ils-successfully-launches-echostar-xvi-satellite

Cosimo · 21 Nov 2012 at 19:21

Cosimo · 24 Nov 2012 at 08:04

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Cosimo · 30 Nov 2012 at 07:45

Ignore: Video moved to astronomy thread.

Cosimo · 30 Nov 2012 at 15:58

Cosimo · 1 Dec 2012 at 08:35

Cosimo · 2 Dec 2012 at 14:09

Pleiades 1B launch:

Launch Kit

Cosimo · 3 Dec 2012 at 10:22

Sea Launch is getting ready for the launch of EUTELSAT-70B on a Zenit-3SL rocket at 20:42 GMT later today in the Pacific:

http://www.sea-launch.com/current_launch_eutelsat-70b.htm

Launch can be seen live (starts 15 minutes before launch):

http://www.sea-launch.com/current_index_webcast.html

Cosimo · 3 Dec 2012 at 18:49

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Cosimo · 5 Dec 2012 at 07:11

Glaucus said:
cant find any details though

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/dec/HQ_12-420_Mars_2020.html

Cosimo · 7 Dec 2012 at 14:19

A trip down memory lane. Forty years ago:

Apollo 17 Launch

The huge, 363-feet tall Apollo 17 (Spacecraft 114/Lunar Module 12/Saturn 512) space vehicle is launched from Pad A., Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, at 12:33 a.m. (EST), Dec. 7, 1972.

Apollo 17, the final lunar landing mission in NASA's Apollo program, was the first nighttime liftoff of the Saturn V launch vehicle. Aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft were astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, commander; astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot; and scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot. Flame from the five F-1 engines of the Apollo/Saturn first (S-1C) stage illuminates the nighttime scene. A two-hour and 40-minute hold delayed the Apollo 17 launching.

Photo credit: NASA

How time flies!

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