January 2013

Hakeem Olajuwon (Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries)

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Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon was born on January 21, 1963 in Lagos, Nigeria. First overall pick at the NBA draft, he won two NBA titles in 1994 and 1995. In 1996 he won the gold medal at the Atlanta Olympic Games.

A part of Reull Vallis photographed by the Mars Express space probe (Image ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum))

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ESA’s Mars Express space probe photographed a part of the region of Mars called Reull Vallis with its High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC). The photographed structure looks like a river and in fact it’s likely to have been formed when water flowed in the distant past.

Heads by Greg Bear (Italian edition)

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The novel “Heads” by Greg Bear was published for the first time in 1990. Mickey Sandoval is a junior administrator of his Binding Multiple – his extended family organization – who works together with his brother in-law William Pierce, a scientist who is conducting experiments on absolute zero. Living on the Moon, the underground is ideal for implanting a laboratory for that kind of research and get extremely low temperatures.

Artistic concept of the service module for the Orion spacecraft (Image ESA-D. Ducros, 2012)

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Yesterday, NASA and ESA signed a cooperation agreement in the project of the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) spacecraft commonly known as Orion. ESA will build the service module, the one that will provide propulsion, power, thermal control and water to the Orion.