Cape Canaveral Florida – spacecraft’s 100 was launched yesterday. Along with three crew, the plane with the name of the Soyuz TMA-19 slide toward the International Space Station (ISS).
Three crew members who were in them are from the United States astronaut Douglas Wheelock and Shannon Walker and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin.
NEC Corp on Monday expressed satisfaction with Japanese space probe Hayabusa’s return to Earth the previous day after a seven-year voyage. ‘‘It is our great pleasure that we as a manufacturer have been able to contribute to the project,’’ the electronics maker said in a statement.
Scientists from Japan were given the go-ahead to retrieve the sample return capsule from the Hayabusa spacecraft, which is hoped to contain the first piece of asteroid ever brought to Earth, perhaps providing insight into the origins of asteroids – and our universe. The capsule was ejected three hours before reaching Earth, and the sample canister descended through Earth’s atmosphere, preceding the spacecraft which broke up in spectacular over the Australian Outback. The capsule lay in the Woomera Prohibited Area until morning when Aboriginal elders deemed it had not landed in any indigenous sacred sites, giving the OK for the scientists to retrieve it.
