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#OTD 24 February 2015, 🔟 years ago, #Hungary🇭🇺 signed the Accession Agreement to the #ESA Convention, becoming a full ESA Member State on 4 November 2015. www.esa.int/About_Us/Cor...

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New Scientist magazine interviewed me about the Space Library www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKXr...

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Ten today! Join us in wishing The Race For Space a happy birthday and, if you like, submit a question for next week's Q&A here: publicservicebroadcasting.os.fan/the-race-for...

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#OTD 21 February 1744, Frisian astronomer Eise Eisinga was born. He built a planetarium in his house in Franeker (NL), which would become known as the Eise Eisinga Planetarium (the orrery still exists and is the oldest functioning planetarium in the world) 🔭 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eise_Ei...

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#50YearsOfESA #1982 - In January 1982, @esa.int approved the development and construction of Ariane 4. This Ariane would be larger and more flexible than earlier members of its family, becoming known as the 'Ariane workhorse'. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_4 www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

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#OTD 20 February 2012, Malta signed a Cooperation Agreement with ESA.

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#OTD 20 February 1999, launch of Soyuz TM-29 to the #Mir space station with @esa.int's Jean-Pierre Haigneré 🇫🇷 on his #Perseus mission, cosmonaut Viktor Afanasiyev and Ivan Bella, the Slovakian astronaut. www.esa.int/Science_Expl... @esaexploration.esa.int @cnes.fr

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#50YearsOfESA #1981 - Marecs, named because it adapted ESA’s ECS design for maritime applications, was @esa.int’s first venture into the commercial satellite business. Marecs-A was launched on 20 December 1981. www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... @esaconnectivity.esa.int @esatransport.esa.int

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A lab with a view 🧪🌍 📅 Columbus – 17 years on, this European science module continues to be an integral part of the International Space Station. 🔗 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

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#OTD ten years ago, 14 February 2015, @esa.int's last cargo resupply vehicle, ATV #GeorgesLemaître, leaves the International Space Station, marking end of the #ATV programme. www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

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#OTD 14 February 1977, the first @esa.int Ministerial Council meeting opened. It included a declaration to undertake a communications satellite programme and a resolution to create the #Earthnet programme. #50YearsOfESA @esaearth.esa.int @esaconnectivity.esa.int

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Today, we remember ASE Founding Member Sigmund Jähn on his #birthday. Jähn flew to space in 1978 aboard Soyuz 31 as part of a trip to the Salyut 6 space station. ✨ Pic: Reinhard Ferdinand, creativecommons.org/...

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Why are #ESAarchives divided between two physical locations in Italy? And what information is where? Let's go back to the beginning of the story, starting with the first agreement with the Historical Archives of the EU in 1989... historicalarchives.esa.int/quarter-cent... @eui-eu.bsky.social

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#OTD 2️⃣5️⃣ years ago: 11 February 2000, the launch of German @esa.int astronaut Gerhard Thiele 🇩🇪 on Space Shuttle #Endeavour STS-99 on the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. 🔗 www.nasa.gov/mission/sts-... @dlr-spaceagency.bsky.social @dlr-de.bsky.social

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After a successful launch 10 years ago #OTD, 11 February 2015, @esa.int's Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle #IXV is recovered in the Pacific Ocean just west of the Galapagos Islands later the same day. www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup... @esatransport.esa.int

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#OTD 10 February 1969, on his European tour, #Apollo 8 astronaut Col. Frank Borman meets HM Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, in Den Haag. Here, he demonstrates a model of the Apollo Lunar Module to the Queen (pic: D. Coersen)

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#OTD 10 February 1997, launch of German astronaut Reinhold Ewald on the 20-day Russian-German Mir '97 mission. www.esa.int/Science_Expl... @dlr-spaceagency.bsky.social @dlr-de.bsky.social @nasaspaceflight.com

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#OTD 10 February 2020, @esascience.esa.int’s Sun-exploring #SolarOrbiter spacecraft was launched on a US Atlas V 411 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. www.esa.int/Science_Expl... (pics: @esa.int and @ulalaunch.bsky.social)

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🎂 #HappyBirthday to Ulrich Walter 🇩🇪 (9 February). Ulrich is a former @dlr-spaceagency.bsky.social astronaut who flew on STS-55/Spacelab D-2 mission in 1993. 👉 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_...

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#OTD 9 February 1995, Michael Foale became the first British-born astronaut to walk in space, and Bernard Harris became the first African-American to walk in space, during the Space Shuttle Discovery STS-63 mission (Pic: NASA) 🔗 flic.kr/p/D3hL45 @nasaspaceflight.com @ukspaceagency.bsky.social

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📸🎂 The best view in the world turns 15 today: happy birthday Cupola! 🎉 🚀 #OTD in 2010, the European-built module was launched to the International Space Station on the Space Shuttle mission STS-130. 👨‍🚀 Video by @esa.int project astronaut Marcus Wandt. 🌍 Beautiful views of Earth, 24/7.

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#OTD 8 February 1996, German @esa.int astronaut Thomas Reiter (right) makes his second spacewalk on the #EuroMir '95 mission with cosmonaut Yuri Gidzenko. www.esa.int/spaceinimage... @esaexploration.esa.int @dlr-spaceagency.bsky.social

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#OTD 1️⃣5️⃣ years ago: 8 February 2010, launch of Space Shuttle #Endeavour STS-130, carrying ESA's #Cupola observation module and the European-built Node-3 to the International Space Station. www.esa.int/Science_Expl... @nasawatch.bsky.social @nasaspaceflight.com

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Hey @spacerocksofficial.bsky.social, you might like this! 😉

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#OTD 7 February 2008, inauguration of @esa.int's European Space Astronomy Centre #ESAC in Madrid 🇪🇸 by the Prince and Princess of Asturias (now HM King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain). www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA...

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#OTD: 7 February 2008, the Space Shuttle #Atlantis STS-122 was launched to the International Space Station, to deliver the European #Columbus laboratory module. Two ESA astronauts were also on board: Léopold Eyharts (FR) and Hans Schlegel (DE) www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

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Happy launch anniversary, Columbus laboratory! 🥳 🚀 @esa.int's first space lab set sail to the International @Space_Station 17 years ago today aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis. 👩🏼‍🔬 Europe's lab Columbus continues offering scientists full access to space, circling 400 km above Earth.

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📈 Think you have a lot of work meetings? 🤔 Back in 1976 the 23 official ESA Council bodies met on over 100 days! Find out how this was all scheduled before the time of Excel and Teams in February’s #ObjectOfTheMonth from #ESAarchives! Spoiler: use pen and ruler 😊 🔗 historicalarchives.esa.int#oom

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#50yearsOfESA #1980 - On 26 March 1980, #Arianespace was created, becoming the world's first commercial launch service provider 🚀 www.arianespace.com/profil-in-sh... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianes... @cnes.bsky.social @arianegroup.bsky.social @esatransport.esa.int

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#50YearsOfESA #1979 - On 24 December 1979, the first Ariane 1 was launched from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. From this flight, Ariane evolved into a highly reliable rocket family and became a symbol of cooperation and independent access to space for Europe. www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

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#OTD 10 years ago: 4 February 2015, #Estonia signed the Accession Agreement to the ESA Convention to become the 21st @esa.int Member State. @mfaestonia.bsky.social @eeineu.bsky.social

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Big news! We’ve just launched some new accounts 🎉 Give them a follow: 🔭 @esascience.esa.int 🧑‍🚀 @esaexploration.esa.int 🚀 @esatransport.esa.int 🌍 @esaearth.esa.int 📡 @esaoperations.esa.int ⚙️ @esatechnology.esa.int 🛰️ @esaconnectivity.esa.int Stay tuned for exciting things ahead! 💙✨

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📷 This image taken by @esa.int's #Rosetta mission #OTD 10 years ago, 3 February 2015, shows Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from a distance of 28.7 km 🔭 blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015... @esascience.bsky.social

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Memorials and monuments to space in Soviet-era Bulgaria 🧪

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#OTD 2 February 2017, Matthias Maurer 🇩🇪 joined @esa.int's astronaut corps after completing his basic training. In November 2021, he made his first spaceflight, the ESA #CosmicKiss mission to the International Space Station. www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

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This is a special tribute to ESRO/ESA photographer Robert Duhem, who died in 1979, as the #ESAarchives opens their historical photograph collection from that year and explores his career and legacy. historicalarchives.esa.int/opening-pict...

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#OTD 1 February 2002, a Cooperation Agreement was signed between ESA and Brazil, by Brazilian Minister of Science and Technology Mr Ronaldo Sardenberg (left), and ESA's Director General Mr Antonio Rodotà.

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#OTD 1 February 2003, the space community lost seven friends and colleagues. Space Shuttle #Columbia was lost during reentry. We remember the STS-107 crew, seen here with a mock-up of the Columbus lab during a visit to @esa.int ESTEC in the Netherlands in May 2001. www.nasa.gov/remembering-...

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Yay! We reached 1000 followers on @bsky.app! 👏😍 #ThankYou!

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#OTD: 31 January 1972, #ESRO's Highly Eccentric Orbit Satellite #HEOS-2 was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, the first scientific satellite to explore Earth’s northern polar region from a highly eccentric orbit 🌍 (pic: ESA) See more in ship.esa.int/ISS/search.jsp

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