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NASA's space station will be visible to the naked eye from all around Greece at 6.42 p.m. local time on Monday, an astronaut on the international mission tweeted earlier in the day.

Gene Cerman died at the age of 82. He was in NASA’s 1972 Apollo 17 mission to the Moon and was the last astronaut that walked on its surface.

On that day up there he had said that ”we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind”.

Of the twelve people that walked on the Moon only six are still alive.

The International Space Station – ISS – circles the earth at 240 miles above the planet. The station is crewed by NASA astronauts as well as Russian Cosmonauts and a mixture of Japanese, Canadian and European astronauts as well.

 As seen from the Nasa video ISS live stream on the International Space Station – 
A real astronaut view of Earth!

After Europe terminates its Rosetta mission, the world's first-ever orbit and landing on a comet zipping through space, what can we look forward to next in the exploration of faraway frontiers?  

Thirty years ago to the day, the first Space Shuttle mission landed in California. On April 14, 1981, the rear wheels of the space shuttle orbiter Columbia touched down on Rogers dry lake at Edwards Air Force Base, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center (then Dryden Flight Research Center), in southern California, to successfully complete a stay in space of more than two days.

NASA has responded to remarks by Turkish Forestry and Waterworks Minister Veysel Ero?lu, who raised eyebrows by claiming that Turkey's technology on meteorological weather forecasts is more advanced than that of the space agency. 

Turkish Minister for Forest and Water Affairs Veysel Eroglu vehemently disputed the scientific capacity of NASA officials during a parliamentary discussion in Turkey’s national assembly on the effects of drought in the eastern Mediterranean. Eroglu said the studies and scientific surveys done by Turkey were of much higher quality and reliability than those of NASA.

Turkey's Forestry and Waterworks Minister Veysel Ero?lu slammed NASA's technology as "inadequate," and claimed Turkish studies were better at weather forecasts, after the U.S. agency released a study concluding that the ongoing draught in the eastern Mediterranean was the worst in the past 900 years. 

NASA astronaut Tim Kopra posted a wonderful photo of Athens at night on his Twitter account sharing it with thousands of his Twitter followers.

“Goodnight Athens”, Kopra writes from the International Space Station.

U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko returned to Earth March 2 after spending almost a year in space in a ground-breaking experiment foreshadowing a potential manned mission to Mars.