NASA has confirmed that the Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached interstellar space. The discussion went on for almost a year because it’s uncharted territory which, as it typically happens in these cases, offers a few surprises. The scientists who carried out the analyzes of the data received from the Voyager 1 have concluded that the spacecraft has reached interstellar space in August 2012.
At the beginning of this week a surprising news arrived about the attribution of the painting “Sunset at Montmajour” to the great painter Vincent Van Gogh. This painting was well known but but for a long time it was considered a fake. In 2011, however, the Van Gogh Museum started an investigation that after two years has led to the announcement of its authenticity.
A few hours ago, the Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin and the American astronaut Chris Cassidy returned to Earth on the Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft, which landed without problems in Kazakhstan. They spent nearly six months on the International Space Station, where they arrived on March 28, 2013. Initially, they were part of Expedition 35, in the second half of their stay they were parts of the Expedition 36 with Pavel Vinogradov as commander of the Station.
On September 10, 1993 the TV show “The X-Files” made its debut in the USA. A celebration of the 20th anniversary already happened at the Comic-Con in San Diego with the show’s protagonists but surely today many fans will celebrate with meetings, parties and rewatching the pilot episode and possibly other ones.
