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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 ...
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2003: On 2 June 2003, the European Mars Express spacecraft was launched on its way to the Red Planet.
The spacecraft was built on ESA’s behalf by a European team led by Astrium. It set out on its journey to Mars aboard a Soyuz-Fregat launcher. The launcher lifted off from Baikonur in Kazakhstan on 2 June at 23:45 local time (17:45 GMT). An interim orbit around the Earth was reached following a first firing of the Fregat upper stage. One hour and thirty-two minutes after lift-off, the probe was injected into its interplanetary orbit.
Mars Express would then travel on a six-month, 400 million kilometre journey through the Solar System, arriving in December 2003.
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31 May
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 ...
30 May
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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