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- - text and links as of last publication / le texte et les liens en l'état lors de la dernière publication - - Great Space Events in 2009A lot of missions leaving in 2009. To the Earth orbit first, with the mission of helping for a better monitoring of the planet as far as the atmosphere and the weather prediction is concerned. Such mission like OCO, an NOAA-N Prime satellite, and Glory are to launch The NASA, on the other hand will be targeting this year both the exoplanets, and Mars. As far as the faraway worlds are concerned, two missions of importance, Kepler and the SIM mission are to launch this year (Kepler in February) with a mission to begin extensive and comprehensive studies of those planets which may be located around stars other than the Sun. The NASA, on the other hand, by fall, is to take the opportunity of the Mars opposition, spanning 2009-2010 to have an easier access to the Red Planet, and launch a large, 6-wheeled rover which will keep to follow the tracks of life on Mars! You will note, at last, that fact of interest, beginning this year (and in a sense, already since last year), which is that we beginning entering a long span of years -likely lasting until about 2020- along which one will celebrate the 50th -and, mostly, the 40th- anniversaries of all the main premieres of the space age, performed either by the Russians or the Americans in the 1960's -like the first manned flights, the first spacewalks, the U.S. Gemini program, etc.- and, too, the 40th anniversary of the Apollo program, which landed U.S. astronauts on the Moon along varied missions and after a series of miscellaneous preparatory flights . see more about these events in our Space section. some missions feature a special page! Grands évènements spatiaux de 2009
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