October 2012

The Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour atop Over Land Transporter (OLT) after exiting the Los Angeles International Airport (Photo NASA/Bill Ingalls)

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About three weeks ago the Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour arrived in Los Angeles. Thursday evenings there was the start of the operations to transport it to the California Science Center to be exhibited at the Samuel Oschin Space Shuttle Endeavour Display Pavilion. Between the international airport it left from and its destination there are less than 20 km (about 12 miles) but the transport went on for almost three days.

The Soyuz ST-B rocket lift off with two Galileo IOV satellites (Photo ESA–S. Corvaja)

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Two satellites of the Galileo project were launched into orbit yesterday when in Europe it was evening from French Guiana using a Soyuz ST-B rocket. The two satellites are part of the Galileo project, an alternative to GPS created by the European Union, of which they represent an important step because the first two satellites had been launched into orbit on October 21, 2011 and four is the minimum number to have a constellation and test the system.

Doctor Who - Destiny of the Daleks

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“Destiny of the Daleks” is the first adventure of the seventeenth season of “Doctor Who” classic series which aired in 1979 featuring the Fourth Doctor and Romana II. It follows “The Armageddon Factor” and it’s a four parts adventure written by Terry Nation and directed by Ken Grieve.