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1996: On 31 May 1996, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (Wide Field Planetary Camera 2) made an image which was combined with one taken at the ESO Very Large Telescope ...
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1937: On 1 June 1937, Theodore von Kármán, Director of the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology at Pasadena, United States established a group that began experiments in design fundamentals of high-altitude sounding rockets.
The group was named the Cal Tech Rocket Research Project. It was the origin of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory which later became part of NASA.
NASA later designed and launched many scientific missions to explore the Solar System and peer into the Universe.
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1975: On 30 May 1975, the text of the ESA Convention was approved by the Conference of Plenipotentiaries in Paris.The European Space Agency began operations on the following day, 31 ...
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2003: On 29 May 2003, the Fregat/Soyuz launcher with ESA's Mars Express mission aboard was moved into a vertical position at the launch pad in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.The hydraulics of the ...
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2003: On 28 May 2003, scientists at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan transported a Soyuz/Fregat launcher with its passenger, ESA's Mars Express, from the Payload Processing Facility to the launch ...
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