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Adventurer Steve Fossett announces that he has broken the record for flying farther than anyone departing and landing at the same spot. He travelled more than 25,000 miles (40,225 kilometers) in three days in his GlobalFlyer aircraft. Fossett said he became restless during his three days in the pl ... |
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Asteroid 2004 MN4 isassigned a rating of 2 on the 10-point Torino Impact Hazard Scale used to predict asteroid or comet impacts. The recently discovered 1,300 feet long asteroid has a 1 in 300 chance of impacting the Earth on April 13th 2029 and is the first asteroid to be rated higher than a 1 on ... |
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The crew of the International Space Station receives badly needed supplies from an unmanned Russian spacecraft. The US Space Shuttle program is still grounded following the breakup of the Shuttle Columbia on entry. |
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The Cassini orbiter releases the Huygens probe which will land on Saturn's moon, Titan on January 14, 2005. |
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Physicist Mark Newman of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor suggests that the SETI project is futile because alien civilizations would encode and compress their communications. Others suggest that some civilizations would transmit a beacon which could be detected. |
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SMART-1, the European Space Agency's fuel-efficient compact spacecraft arrives in lunar orbit, marking Europe's first successful mission to the moon. The craft implemented a unique flight path of ever expanding circles around the earth using a cutting-edge ion propulsion system and used only 130 po ... |
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Robert Sarmast declares that he has found evidence of man-made structures submerged in the sea between Cyprus and Syria which may be related to the fabled lost city of Atlantis, supposedly destroyed in a Cataclysmic flood in 9,000 BC |
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The Discovery Channel presents recent research on Christopher Columbus using a DNA test developed for the victims of 9/11. Combined with the fact that Columbus never wrote in Italian, the research concludes that Christopher Columbs was not the Genovese Italian, but rather a Catalan Mercenary who ha ... |
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Mexican Air Force pilots film 11 unidentified objects in the skies over southern Campeche state. The video is released on May 12th, 2004. |
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NASA creates the new Office of Exploration Systems for the development of technologies in support of a planned return mission to the moon and to Mars. |
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The Soyuz space capsule carrying two astronauts and a cosmonaut are found more than 2 hours after a reported landing in Kazakhstan. |
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NASA launches a space probe into earth orbit with a mission to measure all of the radiation delivered to the Earth from the sun. |
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Dennis Tito becomes the first "space tourist" aboard a Russian rocket en route to the International Space Station. |
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A Russian rocket carrying the first prospective resident-astronauts of the International Space Station lifts off. |
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China successfully launches and returns an ummanned vehicle to space, in preparation for manned space flight. |
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The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration launches the Mars Global Surveyor. |
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US space probe Galileo enters orbit around Jupiter. |
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The Hubble Space Telescope is lifted into space by the Space Shuttle Discovery. |
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The 69th manned space mission (STS 35 and Columbia's 11th flight) returns from space |
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US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) returns from space |
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In Mission STS-31, Astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery deplo the Hubble Space Telescope. |
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NASA's space probe Voyager 2 passes the planet Neptune. |
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Voyager, an experimental airplane piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, completes the first non-stop round-the-world flight. |
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U.S. space probe Voyager 2 makes its first fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km) and finds new moons. |
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NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on the next-to-last mission before the Challenger accident. |
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The 15th Space Shuttle Mission (51-C) Discovery 3 returns to Earth.
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The Soviet Union launches the space probe Vega 1 for a rendezvous with Halley's Comet. |
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Space Shuttle Challenger returns to Earth after completing mission 41-B. |
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Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the solar system. |
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The U.S. Space Probe Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit. |
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