September 24, 2014

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John Kilian Houston Brunner was born on September 24, 1934 in Preston Crowmarsh, near Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England. During his career he wrote a lot of novels and short fiction, especially science fiction and occasionally fantasy. His most famous novels are: “Stand on Zanzibar” (1968), winner of the Hugo BSFA awards, “The Jagged Orbit (1969) and “The Sheep Look Up” (1972).

Artists concept of the Indian space probe Mangalyaan, officially called the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) in Mars orbit (Credit Nesnad)

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ISRO, the Indian Space Agency, has confirmed that the Indian space probe Mangalyaan, officially called the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), has entered the orbit of Mars. The thrusters of the spacecraft were switched on for 24 minutes to slow it down at the right speed to get into an elliptical orbit with a period of 3.2 days.