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FRIDAY, JULY 12, 2019 FRIDAY, JULY 12, 2019 06 07 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 A lite 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 A yesterday 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 international law 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 sovereignty, 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.