The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reached the lunar orbit on June 23, 2009. In one year, LRO has collected more digital information than any previous planetary mission.
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Soyuz TMA-19 arrived at the International Space Station on June 18, 2010. The spacecraft docked to the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module.
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Soyuz TMA-19 was launched on June 15, 2010, by a Soyuz-FG launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The spacecraft carried three members of the Expedition 24 crew to the International Space Station: Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin (RSA) and Flight Engineers Shannon Walker (NASA) and Douglas Wheelock (NASA).
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Falcon 9 lifted off at 2:45 PM EDT on June 4, 2010, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station\’s Launch Complex 40. On this demonstration flight Falcon 9 carried a Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit (DSQU) as a payload, which is a boilerplate version of the Dragon spacecraft. The DSQU remained attached to the second stage of the launch vehicle.
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Soyuz TMA-17 landed on June 2, 2010, in Kazakhstan. On board were cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, NASA\’s Timothy Creamer, and JAXA\’s Soichi Noguchi.
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These images were captured by the MODIS instrument on board the Terra and Aqua satellites. The massive oil spill is fuelled by a sea floor oil gusher that started with a well blowout on April 20, 2010. This spill is now considered the largest offshore spill in the US history.
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