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February 15, 2015
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Europe space truck undocks from ISS
Paris (AFP) Feb 14, 2015
Europe's last supply vessel to the International Space Station undocked on Saturday at the end of a six-month mission, the European Space Agency (ESA) said. The automated spaceship, the Georges Lemaitre, separated from the ISS ahead of an operation on Sunday to burn it up in Earth's atmosphere, ESA said. It is the last of five so-called Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATV) that ESA has contracted to provide for the US-led ISS project. Each the size of a double-decker bus, the ships are designed ... read more
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MOON DAILY

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