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Jules Verne ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle) is a resupply spacecraft for European cargo. It’s fully automated docking with ISS on 3rd April 2008 was a first! EADS Astrium Space Transportation is now showing off a manned version of this spacecraft,...
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According to this GI report, ESA’s announced that Minnesota paid $65,000 in legal fees incurred as a result of the association’s successful challenge to the...
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