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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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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 'erector wagon' brought the launcher up into a vertical position, and shortly after that the rocket with its Mars Express payload was finally installed on the launch pad.
1919: On 29 May 1919, astronomers trying to confirm Einstein's Theory of General Relativity observed a total solar eclipse. Arthur Stanley Eddington led an expedition to Principe Island off West Africa to see whether the predicted curvature of space in the region of the Sun would distort the apparent positions of the stars in the Hyades cluster. The stars' positions were found to be distorted, confirming the theory.
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2003: On 27 May 2003, an ESA ministerial meeting adopted a resolution reaffirming the commitment of ESA to enhanced co-operation with the EU. It was recognised that the two organisations ...
26 May
1983: On 26 May 1983 , ESA's Exosat mission was launched by a Thor-Delta rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base, United States.Exosat was the first ESA mission entirely devoted to ...
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1996: On 25 May 1996, scientists from ESA, NASA and the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) released a series of images of the bright Comet Hyakutake making its close approach ...
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