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Re: Jules Verne spacecraft

From: William Chamberlin <sean~at~oceansonline.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:13:14 -0700
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Well...I¹ve been hearing about it! There was a piece on National Public
Radio yesterday and the article appeared in the LA Times this
morning...Granted, there could be more...

Here¹s a link to the NPR piece:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88025662

From the LA Times, April 4...
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-spacestation4apr04,1,68
40326.story

Jules Verne visits space station

From the Associated Press
April 4, 2008

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. -- A new European cargo ship flew up to the
International Space Station and docked Thursday, delivering food, water and
clothes in its orbital debut.

The unmanned cargo ship, called Jules Verne, was operated by flight
controllers at a European Space Agency center in Toulouse, France.

NASA's Mission Control in Houston and Russia's control center outside Moscow
kept close tabs on the operation, which culminated in the morning linkup
more than 200 miles above the Atlantic. So did the three space station
residents.

Twice over the last week, flight controllers in Toulouse guided Jules Verne
to close encounters with the space station.

The practice gave them confidence that the spacecraft's systems would
perform as planned for the docking. Indeed, everything went smoothly with
the automatic linkup after a 26-day flight.

"Around the world in 26 days, the European Space Agency's Jules Verne . . .
has pulled into port at the International Space Station," announced Mission
Control commentator Rob Navias in Houston.

Jules Verne -- one of the European Space Agency's major contributions to the
space station -- rocketed away from French Guiana on March 9 with several
tons of oxygen, fuel, water and other supplies. It had to wait for shuttle
Endeavour to leave the orbiting complex; Endeavour's mission ended last
week.

Jules Verne is named after the 19th century French science-fiction writer
whose works included "Around the World in 80 Days" and "From the Earth to
the Moon."

Some of the author's original notes were packed aboard the spacecraft to
commemorate its maiden voyage.

The spacecraft won't be opened until today, and the crew won't be able to
start unloading it until Saturday. That's how long it will take to clean the
air inside the docked vessel, Smith said.


On 4/4/08 4:49 PM, "1001~at~atlanticbb.net" <1001~at~atlanticbb.net> wrote:

> Has anyone noticed the paucity of news about the Jules Verne automatic
> spacecraft. A real tour de force and not a peep out of any of the US
> radio/tv/newspapers. !! I guess it is N-I-H.
> nwolcott2~at~post.harvard.edu
>


--W. Sean Chamberlin, PhD
Professor, Oceanography, Fullerton College
schamberlin~at~fullcoll.edu
http://staffwww.fullcoll.edu/schamberlin
http://exploreworldocean.com
Received on Sat 05 Apr 2008 - 05:13:23 IDT

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