World Space Week October 4-10, 2005 - Unmanned Spaceflight.com

World Space Week October 4-10, 2005, Celebrate Discovery and Imagination!

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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430	http://www.nationalacademies.org/headlines/20050930.html This year World Space Week is celebrating discovery and imagination. The U.N. General Assembly declared Space Week a holiday in 1999 to celebrate Oct. 4 -- the date that Sputnik-1, the first artificial satellite, was launched in 1957 -- and Oct. 10, when the assembly adopted the Outer Space Treaty of 1967. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined, and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

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