5 January 2010

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Tuesday 5 January 2010


4 January 2010

Space Shuttle launch

One of the launches of the Space Shuttle


Credit: NASA


6 January 2010



This day in space history

On 5 January 1972, US President Richard Nixon approved the Space Shuttle (STS) programme. First lauched in the early 1980s, it is a spacecraft operated by NASA for orbital human spaceflight missions. Major missions have included launching numerous satellites and interplanetary probes, conducting space science experiments, and servicing and construction of space stations.

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