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2003: On 3 May 2003, the Mars Express spacecraft was given the final green light for launch following completion of a successful flight-readiness review.ESA had earlier announced that the Mars ...
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1959: On 4 May 1959, ESA astronaut Maurizio Cheli was born. He was a former Lieutenant Colonel in the Italian Air Force, was selected in 1992 by ESA as an astronaut and started the Mission Specialist Training at Houston in August 1992. From 22 February 1996 until 9 March 1996 he flew on Shuttle Mission STS-75 together with the European astronaut Claude Nicollier and the Italian astronaut Umberto Guidoni.
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1996: On 2 May 1996, five months after its launch, the first SOHO results were presented by a team of scientists at ESA Headquarters in Paris.These first results showed, for ...
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1996: On 1 May 1996, a chance encounter between Ulysses, the joint ESA/NASA spacecraft, and a comet's tail led scientists to conclude that comet tails extend much further than anyone ...
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2002: On 30 April 2002, astronomers unveiled spectacular views of the Universe as captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). They also reported that ...
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