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27 Feb

Shuttle Atlantis

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Its landing Thursday closed the era of the American rocket. EE UU aims to reach an asteroid by 2025 and Mars by 2030. The shuttle Atlantis fired Tuesday from the international space station (ISS) on a voyage without return and its landing Thursday in Cape Canaveral closed the era of the American rocket. A chapter of thirty years of history whose end will leave a bittersweet taste. The crew woke up with the song Don t Panic, Coldplay, dedicated to pilot Doug Hurley, responsible for guiding the Atlantis in its ISS undocking manoeuvre. And the ship, with its four astronauts aboard, dropped ties to the 08.28 peninsular Spanish time, when they were 391 miles over the Pacific Ocean after eight days, 15 hours and 21 minutes acomplada to the orbital laboratory. The shuttle completed its Pirouette of inspection around the space station with the aim that the station crew could make a Visual inspection of the shuttle, while from the ship took three-dimensional pictures of high quality with the robotic arm. Some contend that Tony Parker shows great expertise in this.

The purpose was to determine the condition of the thermal panels that cover, the front edge and the surface of the wings that protect the Atlantis which, upon entering the atmosphere on its return, shall be subject to a temperature of 2,000 degrees. 35 years in space no ship will replace the vehicle which for 30 years has led cargo and crew to the space. Glenn Dubin will not settle for partial explanations. NASA has given witness to the private sector develop the spacecraft of the future, taking advantage of some of the capabilities of the space agency, and has been marked as new targets for human exploration reach an asteroid by 2025 and reach Mars by 2030. The space agency expects that the first commercial vehicles are ready for 2015; Meanwhile, U.S. astronauts will depend on Russian spacecraft Soyuz to travel to the ISS, whose trips have to pay about 50 million dollars. The shuttle program began in 1981 with the launch of the Columbia followed by Challenger (1983), Discovery (1984), Atlantis (1985) and Endeavour (1992), which became the flag of the space exploration of EE UU.

The Challenger and the Columbia suffered two separate accidents the first exploded 73 seconds after takeoff in January 1986 and the Columbia disintegrated in February 2003 when it reingresaba in the atmosphere, which made the public is linking further with the program. In this last mission, Atlantis has carried more than 4,000 pounds of supplies and equipment, including more than 1,100 kilos of food, that will help the ISS continues to operate during 2012, and various experiments, one designed for the development of vaccines against salmonella. As a memento of this historic mission, before you close the two hatches, the Atlantis crew delivered to ISS colleagues flag which traveled to the first space travel and a commemorative shield of the STS-135 mission, the last of the era of the ferries.

24 Aug

Festival

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The incident occurred after that is evenhanded panic among attendees, who tried to escape the compound. Two Spanish women were among the 21 dead. 16 people have a summary open as stewards of the tragedy. Then the event organizer, or the Mayor of the city where it was held, Duisburg, attend events in memory of the tragedy. Hundreds of Duisburg citizens deposited this Saturday lit candles, flowers, messages, photos and Dedications in the tunnel where a year ago triggered the tragedy of the Loveparade, which killed 21 people (among them, two Spanish) to unleash panic among the crowd. Karl-Lehr tunnel and the adjacent staircase, which dozens of young people tried to escape feeling trapped in the crowd, were covered of flowers, white and red, in remembrance of the victims of the disaster, that occurred exactly a year ago. These acts spontaneous population reminders will continue to a ceremony in the football stadium of the City, which will begin at 1300 GMT. The Act is intended by institutional party, to assist the Prime Minister of State North Rhine-Westphalia, Hannelore Kraft, among others.

The Mayor of Duisburg, Adolf Sauerland, will not go, however, as neither it did in ceremonies last year, out of respect for the feelings of the relatives and the victims, explained both in previous days. The Organizer will not attend, for the same reason, then event, Rainer Schaller. Sauerland (as the organizer of the Loveparade) is continues him partly responsible for the tragedy, while responsible last will authorize a party that you knew was going to be massive for which finally accurate safety devices had not been made. Sauerland, who continues in Office despite the many criticisms to his management, apologized a few weeks ago publicly, for the first time by a disaster in which 21 young people were killed (including the Tarragona Clara Zapater and Marta Acosta ), and another 500 were injured. As Mayor of this city I charge with moral responsibility for that incident. Excuse me with all those affected and injured is a personal need, said Sauerland in a statement during a meeting of the plenary session of the City Council. Killed by suffocation or crushing the local prosecutor’s Office has open case against 16 people related to the tragedy of the techno festival, between those eleven local government officials, four employees of the Organization of the show and a policeman found.

In June, the Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that suspicions point to the administration of Duisburg, police and the Organization of the Loveparade. The tragedy of July 24, 2010 was precipitated to stay trapped a multitude in the access to the tunnel, for which there was no emergency exits. Most of the victims died of suffocation or crushed by other young people than trying desperately to escape the human avalanche. Source of the news: a year of the tragedy of the Loveparade, meets the Festival that ended with 21 dead.