TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT

RECENT DEVELOPMENT IN TECHNOLOGY

v  On April 5, the Discovery Space Shuttle blasted

 off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida

with seven astronauts, including three women

mission specialists on a 13-day mission aboard

 the International Space Station.

v  On April 10, French doctor and explorer Jean

 Louis Etienne made the first Arctic crossing aboard

 his balloon the Generali Arctic Observer. He took

 off from the Norwegian archipelago of Spitz Berger

 on April 5.  Shuttle Discovery and its astronauts

  returned to on April 20, wrapping up their 15-day,

  9.7 million km journey to the International Space Station.

v  On February 26, 2011 Russia successfully launched
a next-generation navigational Satellite for its Glossnass
 Global Communication System. Glossnass-K was launched

 into orbit from the northern Plesetsk Space Centre. It is

hoped to challenge the dominant US Global Positioning System(GPS).

NOTE;PICTURES ARE FROM GOOGLE