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anyone with Internet access can peek into one of the most celebrated minds in science
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Albert Einstein's complete archive is gradually becoming available through the Einstein Archives Online
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March 19), the online archive debuted with roughly 2,000 documents
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archival database
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more than 80,000 documen
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peak at Einstein's high school certification
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finishing high school at 16 in 1896
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Einstein was an excellent student
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he left because he couldn't handle the strict discipline and authority.
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one of only three existing manuscripts containing the famous E=mc^2 equation written in Einstein's handwriting
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archive contains a postcard to his mother
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originally launched in 2003. Almost a decade later, a $500,000 grant from the Polonsky Foundation of London funded digitization of the 80,000 documents
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European Space Agency (ESA
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agreed to continue funding a Mars telecommunications orbiter and atmospheric gas analyzer mission for launch in 2016
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Russian Proton rocket donated by the Russian space agency
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ExoMars is a two-mission project that is considered as a single program at ESA
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council decision removes an immediate problem for ExoMars, it does not solve the longer-term funding issue that has dogged the project for years
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ESA wants to have a high-resolution imager on their 2016 mission, but the hitch is they need a commitment from NASA
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ESA official said that with ExoMars now taking on more scientific instruments, many provided by Russia
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highest leap in human spaceflight in nearly 4 decades when an unmanned Orion crew capsule blasts off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on a high stakes, high altitude test flight in early 2014.
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narrated animation (see below) released by NASA depicts the planned 2014 launch of the Orion spacecraft on the Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) mission to the highest altitude orbit reached by a spaceship intended for humans since the Apollo Moon landing Era.
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launch atop a Delta 4 Heavy booster rocket
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capsule will then separate from the upper stage, re-enter Earth’s atmosphere at a speed exceeding 20,000 MPH
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trio of huge parachutes and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of California.
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altitude 15 times higher than the International Space Station (ISS) circling in low orbit some 250 miles above Earth and provide highly valuable in-flight engineering data that will be crucial for continued development of the spaceship.
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Lockheed Martin is nearing completion of the initial assembly of the Orion EFT-1 capsule
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first integrated launch of an uncrewed Orion is scheduled for 2017 on the first flight of NASA’s new heavy lift rocket
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites
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interactive shows two LRO images of the Apollo 17 landing site. Click and drag on the white slider bar to wipe from one to the other
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This interactive shows two LRO images of the Apollo 12 landing site. Click and drag on the white slider bar to wipe from one to the other
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can retrace the astronauts' steps with greater clarity to see where they took lunar samples
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In the Apollo 17 image, the foot trails, including the last path made on the moon by humans
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One of the details that shows up is a bright L-shape in the Apollo 12 image. It marks the locations of cables running from ALSEP's central station to two of its instruments. Although the cables are much too small for direct viewing, they show up because they reflect light very well.
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higher resolution of these images is possible because of adjustments made to LRO's orbit, which is slightly oval-shaped or elliptical
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paths left by astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell on both Apollo 14 moon walks are visible in this image. (At the end of the second moon walk, Shepard famously hit two golf balls.)
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