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The International Space Station would be visible to naked eye at 6:33 p.m. on Monday, November 27th 2017. 🇬🇷 Yià sas Athens !The @Space_Station is visible to the naked eye at 18:33 (everywhere in south Ελλάδα) if clouds allow💫 ..🌍 @tsapanidou @SiaKossioni @NChatzinikolaou @mdenaxa @serkot65 @keeptalkingGR @CharlyHFox @platitudinous .. Suggestion: …

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Russian cosmonaut of Greek descent Fyodor Nikolayevich Yurchikhin Grammatikopoulos will make a six-hour walk outside the ISS space station where he has been since April. NASA TV will broadcast live the cosmonaut’s trip. The broadcast is schedule to start at 17:00 (Athens time) on Thursday 17 August. 58-year-old Yurchikhin Grammatikopoulos …

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Two microsatellites, UPSat and DUTHSat, constructed in Greece will be launched into space on Tuesday, at 18:11 Athens time – along with 26 other similar microsatellites – from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA. The microsatellites will be transferred onto a rocket-carrier «Atlas V», destined for …

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Space calls Greece. French astronaut Thomas Pesquet from the International Space Station congratulated Greece on the National Day, March 25. With a tweet. Χρόνια Πολλά on your Independence Day, #Greece 🇬🇷 This is Athens, a city full of history and culture that can be seen from space pic.twitter.com/D1BjNZQctq — Thomas …

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In a series of Tweets astronaut Ignazio Magnani announced that the International Space Station will be visible with naked eye, at 18:42 local time, early evening of January 30th 2017. Magnani urges Greeks to watch the ISS crossing the evening sky over Greece. Yià sas Hellas 🇬🇷!The @Space_Station is visibleto …

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Greece is soon to enter a new era. The … space era! A space port is to be set up in Kalamata, the capital of Messinia prefecture in Peloponnese. Soon. In 2015. This was revealed by Dr Periklis Papadopoulos, a NASA researcher: “Kalamata is ideal for creating a European Spaceport …

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Astronaut Chris Hadfield pleasantly surprised us for one more time. The Canadian commander of International Space Station uploaded again a picture from the Greek capital at night as seen from the orbit. “Athens, Greece. The Parthenon at the heart stands out from orbit,” Chris Hadfield wrote. KTG is exactly next …

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This is an amazing  picture of Athens by Night as seen from space! The picture  was taken by Paolo Nespoli, Italian astronaut currently at the International Space Station (ISS). Nespoli took the picture through the glass dome of ISS, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced.                       Athens by Night as seen from …

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