With ATV-5, Europe Ends An Era

PARIS – Europe's fifth and final Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) Feb. 14, marking the end of a seven-year era in European spaceflight. Named “Georges LeMaitre” after the Belgian priest – a cosmologist and father of the Big Bang theory – ATV-5...

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