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SPACE-EUROPE-ISS
This handout picture released on May 28, 2013 by Arianespace shows the final assembly being completed for Flight VA213 with the fairing’s lowering over ATV Albert Einstein the Spaceport’s Final Assembly Building at Kourou space center, French Guiana. The European Space Agency's Albert Einstein cargo craft, set for launch on June 5, 2013 is the fourth and penultimate in a series of hi-tech lifeline vessels bringing supplies and critical altitude boosts to the International Space Station. Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATVs), blasted into space by ESA's Ariane rocket, are the biggest cargo carriers to the ISS since the retirement of the US space shuttle in 2011. Named in honour of the father of relativity theory, the Albert Einstein follows the hi-tech trail of three others since 2008 that also carried the names of science gurus -- the Jules Verne, the Johannes Kepler and the Edoardo Amaldi.
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Kourou, FRANCE (GUIANA) |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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4 Iunie 2013 |
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1338 x 2500 (1.39 MB) |
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