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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.

No one doubts that space has still many well-kept secrets. One of these secrets was brought to light after 40 years in a documentary of Science Channel entitled NASA’s Unexplained Files.

The documentary revealed that in 1969 the crew of Apollo 10 heard a strange whistling sound, which sounded like music, when they were outside the range of terrestrial radio.

Scott Kelly, the US astronaut who posted twice on Greece on his twitter account ex-pressing his support and love to the Greek people, is in his sixth month on the Space Station and continues to snap photos from space. Here is a collection of some his best photos.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, a former space shuttle commander, said that the dream of sending a manned mission to planet Mars is closer to reality than ever before.

NASA provided us with a different angle of the moon, one we rarely have the opportunity to see from our planet, as a special camera fitted on a satellite shot the dark side of Earth’s ‘natural satellite’. The shots were taken on July 16, just as the moon was passing over the Pacific Ocean, NASA said.