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Great Space Events in 2017

A major space event in 2017 as the Cassini mission in the Saturnian system will fiercely plunge into Saturn's atmosphere by Sept. 15, 2017. The show will have begun by April 2017 when 22 orbits will be performed into the gap between Saturn and the rings! Juno on a other hand, will keep working at Jupiter. Martian rovers Opportunity and Curiosity will continue roving at Mars as the Space X company should demonstrate their crew vehicle with a test flight. NASA's ICON (Ionospheric Connection Explorer) will launch to study the dynamic zone where Earth weather and space weather meet. In terms of the anniversaries of the U.S. space program of the 1960's, 2017 is the one continuing remembering the first test-flights of the lunar Apollo program Saturn V rocket

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