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Astro Seminar in China. Part 2.
On March 30, 2011 the 2nd part of the Astrophilately Seminar was held in the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (中國航天科技集團公司)(CASC).
Then the lecture titled "The History of the development of Soviet/Russian Space Mail” was held by Igor Rodin by using power point presentation. More than 50 illustrations with description were presented to the public.

The seminar was conducted with the great help in translation into C
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HTV-2 deorbiting.
On March 30, 2011 Japan's HTV-2 Konotori unmanned supply spacecraft was deorbited. The cargo spaceship entered the atmosphere at about 03:09 UTC and the unburnt fragments fell into the Pacific Ocean 31 minutes later.
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HTV-2 undocked from the ISS.
On March 28, 2011 at 15:45 UTC Japan's HTV-2 Konotori unmanned cargo spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station.
American astronaut Coleman and Italian flight-engineer Nespoli grappled the HTV with the station’s robot arm and methodically pulled the spacecraftfrom the space station's Harmony module. Coleman and Nespoli were at the controls of the robot arm inside the seven-window cupola module.
The space station crew issued a retreat command a few minutes later for the HTV to fly away from the space station. Two separation engine burns guided the ship on a safe trajectory departing the complex.
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“MIR” deorbiting – 10 years ago.
10 year ago on March 23, 2001 the "Mir” orbital complex was deorbited. At that day the covers recorded the event were sent from the Post Office situated near the Russian Mission Control Centre. The deorbiting was controlled by the Russian Mission Control Centre situated in the town of Korolev, Moscow region.

The registered letter sent from Korolev on March 23, 2001 was autographed by 5 Russian cosmonauts who worked aboard the Russian "MIR” orbital complex. N.Budarin, V.Dezhurov, S.Zaletin, G.Padalka, V.Tsibliev.
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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.
Photo NASA.
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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