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After 13-month flight, Europe arrives at the moon PDF Print E-mail
Written by David Adam   
Wednesday, 17 November 2004
More than 30 years after the last Apollo mission, European scientists have made it to the moon. Their experimental Smart-1 probe, powered by a revolutionary Star Trek-style thruster, has entered into orbit around the lunar surface. "Europe has arrived at the moon," David Southwood, director of science at the European Space Agency, said yesterday. After a journey of more than 52m miles lasting 13 months, the photocopier-size probe swung within 3,000 miles of the moon on Monday night. Its course involved 332 orbits of the Earth.

Continue story @ http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1352965,00.html

Source: Guardian Unlimited

 
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