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 Astrophilately Seminar in Beijing. Part 1.
On March 26, 2011 The first part of the Seminar on Astrophilately was held in the Russian Cultural Centre in Beijing in the frames of the China-Russia joint space philately exhibition. The Seminar was conducted by Igor Rodin. The Seminar was held near Exhibition's frames.
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Exhibition in China. Open Ceremony.
On March 24th 2011 in Beijing, China the China-Russia joint space philately exhibition was opened. The event is devoted to the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's space flight.The officials from Russian Embassy in China, All-China Philatelic Federation, China Space Industry, Russian Space Agency, China Space Philately Society took part in the opening ceremony. The event is held in the Russian Cultural Center in Beijing. Russian cosmonaut G.Padalka and Chairman of the FIP Section of Astrophilately I.Rodin took part in the opening ceremony.
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Soyuz TMA-M landed.
On March 16, 2011 at 07:54 UTC the Soyuz TMA-M landing capsule with 3 cosmonauts aboard performed a soft landing at a distance of 86 kilometers to the north from the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan.
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Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft is seen as it lands.
Russian cosmonauts Aleksandr Kaleri (Soyuz TMA-M Commander), Oleg Skripochka and Ametican astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth having spent in space 159 days, 08 hours and 42 minutes. Health status of the crew is fine. All descent operations were
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Soyuz TMA-M undocked from the ISS.
On March 16, 2011 at 04:27 UTC the Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft with 3 cosmonauts aboard undocked form the ISS. Russian cosmonauts Aleksandr Kaleri, Oleg Skripochka and Ametican astronaut Scott Kelly began their way back to Earth.
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US launched a spy satellite.
On March 11, 2011 at 23:38 UTC United Launch Alliance launched the Delta-4M rocket-carrier from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The rocket orbited the USA-227 secret satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office.
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HTV-2 relocated to another ISS port.
In the evening of March 10, 2011 the HTV-2 Japanese cargo spacecraft was relocated to another ISS port.
Working from the station's windowed cupola, Expedition 26 crew members Scott Kelly, Cady Coleman and Paolo Nespoli maneuvered the station's 58-foot robotic arm to return the HTV-2 spacecraft from the space-facing to Earth-facing port on the Harmony node.
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Discovery (STS-133) landed.
On March 9, 2011 at 16:57 UTC American Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-133 flight) landed at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida completing its 39th and final flight.
The crew of 6 astronauts (Steven Lindsey, Eric Boe, Benjamin Drew, Michael Barratt, Stephen Bowen, Nicole Stott) spent in space 12 days, 19 hours, 03 minutes and 53 seconds.
With only two more missions left on NASA's shuttle manifest -- a flight by Endeavour in April and a final voyage by Atlantis in late June -- Discovery's landing marked the beginning of the end for the world's most complex -- and expensive to operate -- manned space vehicle.
The STS-133mission was the 39th and final flight for Discovery, which
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Discovery undocking.
On March 07, 2011 at 12:00 UTC American Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-133 flight) undocked from the ISS. The astronauts plan to pack up and test Discovery's re-entry systems on March 8 before dropping out of orbit and landing back at the Kennedy Space Center around noon March 9.
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US launched a secret military shuttle.
On March 05, 2011at 22:46 UTC the Atlas 5 rocket was launched by United Launch Alliance from Cape Canaveral, California, USA.
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The rocket orbited the U.S. Air Force's second top secret X-37B space plane.
The military isn't divulging what the space plane carries, but it could be shepherding high-tech Air Force experiments, spy sensors and other research payloads.
Also called the Orbital Test Vehicle, the program is managed by the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, a division headquartered in the Pentagon. But the X-37's
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