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Cape Canaveral is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s main center for sending humans and their robotic surrogates beyond the Earth to explore the space. The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is a place for many expendable rockets carrying civilian and military satellites into orbit around the Earth, as well as those sending robotic spacecraft out into the solar system to explore asteroids, comets and other planets and their moons.

A Delta II rocket, carrying a payload for the Air Force, launched from Cape Canaveral, March 15, 2008.

The Rocket Garden & The Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral.

Aeromexico will offer the first daily non-stop service between Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and Mexico City (MEX) with continuing service to Guadalajara (GDL). From Mexico City, travelers will be able to connect to major Mexican destinations including Acapulco, Oaxaca, Veracruz and others.

“We welcome Aeromexico to the Northwest,” said Port of Seattle Commission President John Creighton. “Mexico City is an important destination for business and leisure travelers from the Puget Sound area. We are pleased that the airline will provide this daily non-stop flight which will serve to further strengthen business and cultural ties between Washington and Mexico.”

“Mexico is one of Washington’s largest trade partners and I look forward to flying this new route on my trade mission to Mexico and Guadalajara this summer,” said Governor Chris Gregoire. “I met with the CEO of Aeromexico when he visited last summer and discussed with him the benefits of a direct flight between Seattle and Mexico, including the ability to create more trade and cultural opportunities.”

Aeromexico will fly new generation Boeing 737-700s. The first in-coming flight will arrive on the evening of July 3rd and the first flight will depart on the morning of July 4th. Aeromexico will arrive and depart from Sea-Tac’s South Satellite.

“During the last several years, the Port invested more than $4 billion in improving facilities and infrastructure at Sea-Tac Airport,” said Tay Yoshitani, the Port’s CEO. “Just two months ago, we announced that Air France will begin serving Seattle in June and now we’re able to announce that Aeromexico will start service in July – this demonstrates that the investments made in the airport were on target.”

“Our new service will also be very attractive to the substantial Hispanic market in the Pacific Northwest, providing convenient access and connections to family and friends throughout Mexico,” said Carlos De Uriarte, Aeromexico vice president of sales and marketing, USA and Canada.

Aeromexico is a member of the SkyTeam Alliance, which provides connections and benefits with several airlines serving Sea-Tac.

The Space Race became an important part of the cultural and technological rivalry between the USSR and the United States during the 1960’s and the early part of the 70’s. But with all these efforts to date, only 3 civilians have been able to finance their multi-million dollar voyage to the International Space Station.

With the recent advent of the Ansari X Prize, the solar system got a lot more interesting with the possibility of affordable suborbital voyages for the rest of us. Space Adventures are working currently on construction of two earth-based Spaceports that will offer suborbital spaceflights, as well as astronaut training facilities. The first facility will be located in Ras Al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates, while Singapore’s Changi Airport will grow to accommodate the second Spaceport. The both facilities will offer suborbital voyages as main attraction. Space Adventures has yet to announce how much these voyages will cost tourists, but they are adamant that they will be affordable (for someone:) ). I am currently preparing some information about Space Adventures` tourist service so stay in touch…

The City of Buenos Aires is a cosmopolitan and modern urban centre, where every day millions of people, among them tourists, come and go either to work or to visit the city.
The planetarium is impossible to miss as it rises out of Palermo’s busy and popular park district like a spacecraft or a giant eggcup. Between the appropriate architecture and the giant hunk of space rock on display outside the front door, those on the lookout can’t miss it.

Built in 1966 by architect Enrique Jan. Shaped like a planet, it has a 20 meter wide cupola. Shows are projected on the inside of the cupola through a spotlight and laser system. The equipment can project up to 8900 fixed stars, constellation and nebula. It is the perfect place to visit if you have kids. Built on the land of a defunct 19th century Cricket Grounds where the city’s first soccer team played, the Plaza Del Planetario was laid out and the following year the Planetario Galileo Galilei was unveiled.
The premises consist of five floors, six stairs (one of them is a spiral stair) and a circular room of 20 meters of diameter and 360 seats. At the semispherical dome – 20 meters of diameter and internally roofed with aluminum – the sky-blue dome is projected. At the center of the room, the proper planetarium is located: a device 5 meters high and 2.5 tones of weight equipped with one hundred projectors approximately.
The 1st Flashmob happened in 2003, that kind of Flashmob attracts participants of all ages, in Buenos Aires, where young people and teenagers were the main participants in this event. In the Planetarium Galileo Galilei, you will be able to find, many dinamic activities to make any day of the week, even the holidays. Besides it counts with activities for any age, sex, and even for blind people, and to deaf too.