01 July 2004

A big day in space...

2 major missions have occurred today, the first (rather worryingly) was to fix the international space station's steering system! This left the ISS completely unmanned for nearly 6 hours (and supposedly out of control too (mmm)

The second was a probe entering the orbit of Saturn. The thing has taken 7 years to get there and had to pass through the rings to get the orbit required. At some point in its 4 year life gathering data its going to check out Titan, which some believe is in the same state as earth was billions of years ago...

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