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| | | | | | | Jules Verne prepares for ISS departure
2 September 2008
| After 6 months, the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), loaded with 6.5 tonnes of waste, separates from ISS and fully burns up during a guided and controlled reentry high over the Pacific.
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| | | | A lot of moving in and out
| Expedition 17 crewmembers, Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko, float inside Jules Verne ATV. Jules Verne is Europe's first Automated Transfer Vehicle. Jules Verne docked with the International Space Station on 3 April 2008.
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| | | | | ESA's ATV Control Centre, Toulouse
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| | | | Four ISS reboosts
| Backdropped by the airglow of Earth's horizon and the blackness of space, the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) approaches the International Space Station on Monday, 31 March, 2008, for its Demonstration Day 2 practice maneouvers.
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