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Press Releases

Apr 10, 2001

Planetary Society Celebrates Yuri's Night, April 12

The Planetary Society will help co-sponsor the worldwide celebration of Yuri's Night, the 40th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic flight as the first human to orbit Earth.

Apr 02, 2001

Mars Microphone Has New Ticket to Ride on NetLander Mission

The Planetary Society's Mars Microphone will hitch a new ride to the Red Planet on board the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) NetLander mission in 2007.

Mar 20, 2001

Farewell to a Cold Warrior: Planetary Report Features Mir Obituary by former Soviet Space Science Head, Roald Sagdeev

Russia plans to bring the Mir spacecraft down in a controlled de-oribt burn this week, dropping the aging station to a final resting place, hopefully somewhere in the South Pacific.

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