Cryosat 2 launched on April 8, 2010, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Cryosat 2 was placed in orbit by a Dnepr launch vehicle. Cryosat has been designed to measure the ice thickness on land and also at sea, and will provide enough data so that a precise rate of change of the ice thickness can be determined.
Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off successfully on April 5, 2010, from Kennedy Space Center\’s Launch Pad 39A. The primary payload of the mission is the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Leonardo, which is filled with food and science supplies for the International Space Station. The STS-131 crew consists of Commander Alan Poindexter, Pilot James Dutton, Mission Specialists Richard Mastracchio, Dorothy M. Metcalf-Lindenburger, Stephanie Wilson, JAXA\’s Naoko Yamazaki, and Clayton Anderson.
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Soyuz TMA-18 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 2, 2010. Three members of the Expedition 23 crew are heading to the International Space Station: Commander Aleksandr Skvortsov, Flight Engineer Mikhail Korniyenko, and Flight Engineer Tracy Caldwell Dyson.
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The Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft returned to Earth with only a crew of two: cosmonaut Maksim Surayev and Expedition 22 Commander Jefferey Williams.
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On March 13, 2010, SpaceX conducted a successful static firing test of the Falcon 9 first stage. SpaceX targets April 12, 2010, as the date for the first launch of Falcon 9.
The 3D visualization of the Mars surface is based on data acquired by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard ESA\’s Mars Express mission.
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