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Vega rocket fails after takeoff in French Guiana The Moon now has hundreds of artefacts Kourou, France Fierce storms tear through Greece a Czech family’s caravan, kill- Should they be protected? rocket carrying a satel- The area had been ing an elderly couple in their Alite for the United Arab • seventies and injuring their Washington, United States Emirates failed shortly after hit by winds of more 48-year-old son and 19-year- ploration of space, you’re run- taking off from French Gui- than 100 kilometres old grandson. Walking on the Moon ning up against the basic prem- ana on Wednesday night, (62 miles) an hour “The wind picked up the car- hree rovers, six US flags, ise of the Outer Space Treaty,” launch company Ariane- avan as if it were a matchbox,” dozens of probes that ei- Jack Beard, a space law pro - space said. said Yiannis Karabourniotis, ther landed successfully Saturn V rocket Antennae “Eagle” Apollo 11 fessor from the University of Six tourists including T Apollo 15 Apollo 17 Moon landing: July 20, 1969 “About two minutes after • owner of a nearby tavern. or crashed, tools, cameras and Used on the Nebraska, said. takeoff a major anomaly oc- two children were killed “You cannot describe it. There trash: the Moon is dotted with Apollo 11 mission Jul 30, 1971 Dec 11, 1972 To be sure, the treaty says Mission duration: curred, leading to the loss used to be 50 pine trees around hundreds of objects as a result 12 days, 7 hours, 12 days, 13 hours, 8 days, 3 hours, 18 mins each space object must be regis- of the mission,” said Luce There were reports my establishment. Most were of space exploration. Exit hatch Altitude 12 mins 52 mins tered by its country, a safeguard • control Crew: Fabreguettes, director of uprooted or snapped in two,” Some experts are calling to David Scott* Eugene Cernan* against irresponsible behaviour yesterday that a seventh Command system Michael Collins operations in Kourou, on he said. grant them heritage status to James Irwin* Ronald Evans by private entities. body had been recovered module Edwin Aldrin Jr* the northern coast of the Elsewhere in the re - protect them from future tour- Alfred Worden Harrison Schmitt* These artefacts also remain French territory in South gion, a Russian man and his ists and human activity. Service Neil Armstrong the property of the entity which America. Thessaloniki, Greece son were killed by a falling It all started on September 13, module First man to walk placed them, effectively barring on the moon It is the first failure after tree. 1959 when Soviet probe Luna 2 theft. Lunar Manned fourteen successful launch- ix people died and at At least 140 rescue workers smashed into Mare Imbrium, Module But its loopholes concern law- es of Vega -- Arianespace’s least 23 were injured as a were involved in the operation, its 390 kilograms (859 pounds) moon “ That’s one small yers, space agencies and the UN, lightweight launcher -- Sfierce storm tore through emergency chief Vassilis Vartha- of mass vaporizing, no doubt, landings step for man, and not only over the issue of since operations began at a beachfront in one of Greece’s koyannis said. on impact. Fuel Apollo 12 one giant leap protecting heritage. 4 the Guiana Space Centre top tourist areas, terrifying Prime Minister Kyriakos Mit- It was followed in succession tank Nov 19, 1969 for mankind ” Moon traffic is likely to grow 6 in 2012. thousands of holidaymakers sotakis, who took over Sunday by more Luna probes, then it 10 days, 4 hours, in the coming decades and the caught in the open, authorities after general elections, can - was the Americans’ turn with 36 mins vague principles of cooperation said yesterday. A caravan overturned by strong winds lies on a beach where a storm killed a Czech couple in Nea Plagia, in Chalkidiki, celled his meetings to address the Ranger and Surveyor pro- enshrined in the treaty are not Six tourists including two the disaster, his office said. grams. Charles Conrad Jr* seen as sufficient to regulate it. Northern Greece Richard Gordon Jr 1 2 Huge fire erupts children were killed -- two each The storms came after tem- And then, on July 20, 1969, the Alan Bean* 3 In 2019 alone, a Chinese robot from the Czech Republic, Russia In an emergency briefing, and balcony railings and cause ‘Unprecedented phenomenon’ peratures in Greece soared to 37 first humans, Neil Armstrong 5 landed on the Moon, a private at power station and Romania -- in the north - government spokesman Stelios mudslides. degrees centigrade (98 degrees and Buzz Aldrin. Israeli probe crashed, and India outside Moscow ern region of Halkidiki, near Petsas yesterday said the area Road access to part of Hal - On a beach in Sozopoli, the Fahrenheit) over the past two The pair spent 22 hours on the will send a probe. Greece’s second city Thessaloni- had been hit by winds of more kidiki was still severed owing storm toppled and ripped open days. Sea of Tranquility. They left be- Engine US astronauts are scheduled to Moscow, Russia ki, in the storms late Wednesday. than 100 kilometres (62 miles) to a fallen high-voltage electric- hind everything that wasn’t nec- Apollo 14 visit its southern pole in 2024, There were reports yesterday an hour. ity pylon, Petsas said, adding essary to taken back: the lunar Feb 5, 1971 where there is ice. huge blaze broke out that a seventh body had been Twenty-three people were that restoring power to the area module’s descent stage, cameras, 9 days, 1 min, Hundreds of space start-ups Ayesterday at a gas-fired recovered, but they have not yet still receiving treatment in could take another two days. lunar boots, tongs, commemo- 58 secs have sprung up, many of which power station just outside been confirmed. nearby hospitals, including a “It was a miracle that there rative objects, and four “defeca- Alan Shepard Jr* want to exploit the water and Moscow with a plume of “There was panic, people 72-year-old woman in critical weren’t more deaths,” said tion collection devices.” Stuart Roosa Apollo 16 mineral resources of the Moon smoke and flames surging were howling and running to condition, he said. 39-year-old Kyriakos Athanasi- Five more successful Apollo Edgar Mitchell* Apr 20, 1972 and asteroids. What would hap- 50 metres (165 feet) into hide inside,” said Haris Lazarid- Most of them are tourists, adis, who is vacationing in the missions left behind hundreds 11 days, 1 hour, pen if they quarreled with one the sky, Russian television is, owner of a tavern where a Petsas said, declining to give area. of additional objects. 51 mins another? showed. 54-year-old woman from Ro- nationalities. “Nearly all the coastal restau- All told, the Moon has about John Young* “It’s clear that there is poten- The fire at Power Station mania and her son were killed The seventh body recovered rants were full, and you could a hundred sites where people Thomas Mattingly tial for conflict,” Tanja Masson, a No. 27 broke out around when the roof caved in. Thursday is believed to belong see large objects flying,” he said. have left their mark, according Launch site: Charles Duke Jr* professor of space law at Leiden 11:00 am. The emergencies “For five minutes it was hell- to a missing fisherman. One woman reportedly told to For All Moonkind, a non-prof- Engine Cape Canaveral, University in The Netherlands ministry said that at least ish,” Lazaridis said. He added The freak storm only lasted hospital staff she was picked it that seeks to preserve human United States Handout portrait taken in July 1969 of US told AFP. five people were injured, that more than 100 people were about 20 minutes, according to up by the wind and thrown in a heritage in space. Source : NASA *Walked on the moon astronaut Neil Armstrong. Photo: NASA “There’s a need for rules so while the health ministry sheltering under the roof when witnesses, but it was enough garbage bin, which then rolled Broken trees fallen on cars after a storm in Nea Plagia, in Chalkidiki, Northern That’s about 167 tonnes of ma- tracks, where items are on the nothing in that future expeditions should tional appropriation by claim that it does not become the Wild said it was at least six. it collapsed. to overturn cars, uproot trees away. Greece terial.Legally, “the sites them- site, which is so important, from right now that says you can’t not land within two kilometers of , by means of use West.” selves aren’t protected at all,” an archaeological standpoint, just drive a rover right up to it, (1.2 miles) of Apollo sites. or occupation, or by any other She suggests the creation of an said Michelle Hanlon, a law they have no protection,” she and actually take a peek at it,” In the US Congress, senators means.” international body to distribute professor at the University of added. she said.“We need protections have introduced a “One Small “Once you start making ex- priority rights, without granting Mississippi who co-founded Hanlon fears the Apollo sites against inadvertent as well as Step to Protect Human Heritage clusionary zones, and sovereignty, as is done to man- For All Moonkind in 2017 after will one day attract the attention intentional acts.” in Space” bill. stopping other age satellites in geostationary Japan’s Hayabusa2 makes ‘perfect’ touchdown on asteroid the head of the European Space of tourists, who could kick up lu- But the Outer Space Treaty countries from orbit. Tokyo, Japan Agency Jan Worner joked that nar dust that cuts like glass and Waste centres? of 1967 is very explicit: “Out- their Hayabusa2 touchdown on Ryugu asteroid exposed to the atmosphere. he wanted to bring back the can be highly damaging. NASA has adopted recom - er space, including the moon free use apan’s Hayabusa2 probe Collection of samples from the crater blasted in April Hayabusa2’s first touchdown American flag. “If somebody were to get men- dations, for ex- and other celestial bodies, is and ex- made a “perfect” touchdown was in February, when it land- “So the boot prints, the rover too close to the LEM, there’s ample, not subject to na- J 1 Descent from the Thursday on a distant asteroid, home position (HP) ed briefly on Ryugu and fired a collecting samples from beneath at an altitude of 20 km bullet into the surface to puff up the surface in an unprecedented Descent ( to 30 m altitude) dust for collection, before blast- Approx. 23 hrs mission that could shed light on 100 m ing back to its holding position. the origins of the solar system. 2 Enters autonomous ‘The world is watching’ “We’ve collected a part of the 6 mode at 100 m 3 Deploys solar system’s history,” project Accelerated ascent target markers A photo of the crater taken by manager Yuichi Tsuda said at a to HP to guide Hayabusa2’s camera after the touchdown jubilant press conference hours April blast showed that parts of after the successful landing was the asteroid’s surface are cov- confirmed. ered with materials that are “ob- 4 “We have never gathered Attitude alignment viously different” from the rest sub-surface material from a ce- to asteroid's surface of the surface, mission manager A camera left by the Apollo 12 crew during their landing on the moon 19 and 20, 1969 The final parking spot for the Apollo 15 Lunar Rover on August 1, 1971 lestial body further away than Makoto Yoshikawa told report- the Moon,” he added. Low altitude operation ers before the latest touchdown. Researchers and employees celebrating the Hayabusa2’s touchdown on the Approx. 25 min “We did it and we succeeded asteroid Ryugu, at the mission control room in Sagamihara city, Kanagawa Scientists are hoping the in a world first.” prefecture. 30 m probe will have collected uni- The fridge-sized probe made dentified materials believed to its second landing on the aster- Hayabusa2 is the successor to be “ejecta” from the blast after Graves dug in missing teen search empty: Vatican oid around 10:30am (0130GMT), JAXA’s first asteroid explorer, 5 landing briefly in an area some , with from the Japan Touchdown 20 metres away from the centre 1840. Hayabusa -- Japanese for fal- to collect Aerospace Exploration Agency con, which returned with dust samples of the crater. he mystery surrounding the The Vatican said it had in - (JAXA) breaking into applause samples from a smaller, po- “It would be safe to say that Tdisappearance of an Italian formed their descendants of and cheers as initial data sug- extremely attractive materials teenager 36 years ago deepened Thursday’s discovery that their gested the touchdown had been tato-shaped asteroid in 2010. are near the crater,” Tsuda said Thursday after two graves at the remains were missing. KNOW WHAT Source: JAXA a success. Confirmation of the The Hayabusa2 mission was before the landing. Vatican thought to possibly hold It said it would look into when landing came only after Haya- launched in December 2014, The touchdown is the last ma- her remains were discovered to work was done on the tombs in busa2 lifted back up from the and has a price tag of around Asteroid size jor part of Hayabusa2’s mission, be empty. a bid to find out what happened Japan lands probe asteroid and resumed commu- 30 billion yen ($270 million). on the 900 m long and when the probe returns to Not only were Emanuela Or- to them. nications with the control room. Ryugu asteroid Earth next year to drop off its landi’s remains not found, the “Documentary checks are Research director Takashi has touched down on the des- intended to collect pristine ma- samples, scientists hope to learn tombs did not even hold the underway on the structural in- Kubota told reporters that the olate asteroid Ryugu, some 300 terials from beneath the surface more about the history of the remains of the two princesses terventions that took place in touchdown operation was “more million kilometres (185 million of the asteroid that could pro- solar system and even the origin supposed to be buried there in the area... in a first phase at the than perfect.”Ωnd Tsuda, with a miles) from Earth. vide insights into what the solar of life on Earth. the Teutonic Cemetery in the end of the 19th century, and in grin, said he rated it “1000 points Ryugu, which means “Dragon system was like at its birth, some The Hayabusa2 mission has tiny city state, the Vatican said a second more recent phase be- out of 100.” Palace” in Japanese, refers to a 4.6 billion years ago. attracted international atten- in a statement. tween the 60s and 70s of the last “The probe moved perfectly castle at the bottom of the ocean To get at those crucial mate- tion, with Queen guitarist and “No human findings or funeral A demonstrator holds a poster of Emanuela Orlandi reading “Missing” during The opening of one of two tombs within the Vatican’s grounds in the Teutonic century,” the Vatican said. and the team’s preparation work in an ancient Japanese tale. rials, in April an “impactor” was Taipei Ei el Ryugu Burj Sky astrophysicist Brian May send- urns were found,” it said. Benedict XVI’s Regina Coeli noon prayer in St. Peter’s square, at the Cemetery The Holy See expressed its was perfect,” he said. The complex multi-year Hay- fired from Hayabusa2 towards 101 Tower 300 million kilometres Khalifa Tree ing a video to the probes team The Vatican dig followed Vatican “attention and closeness to the abusa2 mission has also involved Ryugu in a risky process that Taipei Paris from Earth Dubai Tokyo ahead of the landing. an anonymous tip-off that the last seen leaving a music class where her body may lie. which simply read: “Look where rule out any misunderstandings suffering of the Orlandi Family Pristine samples Taiwan France UAE Japan sending rovers and robots down created a crater on the asteroid’s 508 m 324 m Approx. 900 m 830 m 634 m “The world is watching. We cemetery may be the last resting aged 15. The family had been sent a the angel is pointing”. over which grave was meant. and in particular to Emanuela’s The brief landing Thursday to the surface. surface and stirred up material love you, take care Hayabusa2,” place of Orlandi, the daughter Theories have circulated for picture of an angel-topped grave A second, similar grave along- The tombs belonged to two mother,” who still lives inside is the second time Hayabusa2 Thursday’s touchdown was that had not previously been Source: Jaxa the musician told the team. of a Vatican employee, who was decades about who took her and in the cemetery, and a message side the first was also opened to princesses, buried in 1836 and the Vatican.