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Automated Transfer Vehicle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Timeline of Solar System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... exploration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Timeline of spaceflight http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Beyond Apollo David S. F. Portree http://www.wired.com/wiredsc... , 6 -6 http://amyshirateitel.com/vintage... , 8 -17 Soviet space program http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://news.discovery.com/space... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://news.discovery.com/space... , - Thomas Page

List of space telescopes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... List of proposed space observatories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.time.com/time... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Outline of astronomy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 6 -2 ( sort transit of venus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.youtube.com/watch... http://www.space.com/15910-v... , cook First voyage (1768–71) Main article: First voyage of James Cook Endeavour replica in Cooktown, Queensland harbour — anchored where the original Endeavour was beached for 7 weeks in 1770. In 1766, the Royal Society engaged Cook to travel to the Pacific Ocean to observe and record the transit of Venus across the Sun. Cook, at the age of 39, was promoted to lieutenant and named as commander of the expedition.[15][16] The expedition sailed from England in 1768, rounded Cape Horn and continued westward across the Pacific to arrive at Tahiti on 13 April 1769, where the observations of the Venus Transit were made. However, the result of the observations was not as conclusive or accurate as had been hoped. Once the observations were completed, Cook opened the sealed orders which were additional instructions from the Admiralty for the second part of his voyage: to search the south Pacific for signs of the postulated rich southern continent of Terra Australis.[17] Cook then sailed to New Zealand and mapped the complete coastline, making only some minor errors. He then voyaged west, reaching the south-eastern coast of Australia on 19 April 1770, and in doing so his expedition became the first recorded Europeans to have encountered its eastern coastline.[NB 2] On 23 April he made his first recorded direct observation of indigenous Australians at Brush Island near Bawley Point, noting in his journal: "...and were so near the Shore as to distinguish several people upon the Sea beach they appear'd to be of a very dark or black Colour but whether this was the real colour of their skins or the C[l]othes they might have on I know not."[18] On 29 April Cook and crew made their first landfall on the mainland of the continent at a place now known as the Kurnell Peninsula, which he named Botany Bay after the unique specimens retrieved by the botanists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander. It is here that James Cook made first contact with an Aboriginal tribe known as the Gweagal.[19] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Other work Maskelyne’s first contribution to astronomical literature was A Proposal for Discovering the Annual Parallax of Sirius, published in 1760.[11] Subsequent contributions to the Transactions contained his observations of the transits of Venus (1761 and 1769), on the tides at Saint Helena (1762), and on various astronomical phenomena at Saint Helena (1764) and at Barbados (1764). Maskelyne also introduced several practical improvements, such as the measurement of time to tenths of a second; and prevailed upon the government to replace Bird’s mural quadrant by a repeating circle 6 feet (1.8 m) in diameter. The new instrument was constructed by Edward Troughton but Maskelyne did not live to see it completed. [edit]Maskelyne in literature and the arts Maskelyne features prominently in Dava Sobel's 1995 book, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, as well as the A&E miniseries based on the same. Maskelyne is a supporting character in Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon. , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ) , 6 -3 ScienceCasts: ISS Transit of Venus http://www.youtube.com/watch...! , 6 -4 http://www.skyandtelescope.com/communi... , 8 -29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.astrobio.net/pressre... , 10 -13 http://www.theatlantic.com/technol... - Thomas Page

‘Repurposed’ Telescope May Explore Secrets of Dark Energy http://www.nytimes.com/2012... , http://gizmodo.com/5915509... , http://www.washingtonpost.com/nationa... , 6 -11 Ex-Spy Telescopes May Aid Hunt for Dark Energy http://sciencefriday.com/topics... , 6 -12 http://wfirst.gsfc.nasa.gov/ http://www.time.com/time... http://www.sciencespacerobots.com/blog... Dark Energy http://friendfeed.com/citizen... - Thomas Page

Lagrange Points http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ; Beyond-the-moon base stirs up buzz http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://www.youtube.com/watch... , 11 -12 http://www.businessinsider.com/rumor-h... , 7 -17 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 5 -9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Gaia (spacecraft) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... will fly to the Sun–Earth Lagrange point L2 located approximately 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. The L2 point will provide the spacecraft with a very stable thermal environment. There it will describe a Lissajous orbit which will avoid eclipses of the Sun by the Earth, which would otherwise limit the amount of solar energy the satellite can retrieve through its solar panels and also disturb the thermal equilibrium. Lissajous orbit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 8 -22 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

2 -9 Missions_to_the_Sun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... International Cometary Explorer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... On February 4, 2014, the Goddard Space Flight Center announced that the Deep Space Network equipment necessary to transmit signals to the spacecraft had been decommissioned in 1999, and that replacing it was not economically feasible [[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[[ 6 -1 IRIS - Thomas Page

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Attribution_of_recent_climate_change http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ? El Niño http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [ 2 -9 sort http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-ti... http://hurricanes.wikia.com/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/ http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/ [[[ 2 -11Carbon attribution ?sort sort http://friendfeed.com/biograp... 4 -26 http://www.vox.com/cards... - Thomas Page

Solar Cycle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Solar interactions with Earth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Back in the 1980s, space agencies were racing to Halley's comet. But NASA wasn't going — officials said a comet mission was too expensive. That did not sit well with Farquhar, who had dreamed of achieving the first comet encounter ever. So he figured out how to divert an existing satellite, called the International Sun-Earth Explorer-3 (ISEE-3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , that was stationed between the Earth and the sun in an innovative halo orbit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... that he had pioneered. Farquhar came up with a complicated trajectory that would let this spacecraft intercept a different comet called Giacobini-Zinner in September of 1985, months before the armada of other space probes would arrive at Halley's. http://www.npr.org/2014... http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astrono... [[ 4 -21 http://xkcd.com/1356/ kerbal space program http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 6 -16 http://www.nytimes.com/2014... 6 -20 http://www.theatlantic.com/technol... - Thomas Page

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Space geostrategy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 8 -10 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

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