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Introduction

Space, (or outer space), describes the vast empty regions between planets and stars. The study of these, and other, astronomical objects is called Astronomy and is one of the oldest sciences. It is often said that space exploration began with the launch of Sputnik 1, the first man-made object to orbit the Earth. Then, in an almost unbelievable feat of human achievement, in 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin travelled to the Moon and set foot on the surface during the Apollo 11 mission. Recently, it has become clear that space colonization will no longer be for science-fiction stories, and many issues surrounding space have come to light including commercial spaceflight, space laws and space weapons.

  

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The Pleiades
The Pleiades (also known as M45 or the Seven Sisters) is an open cluster in the constellation of Taurus. It is among the nearest to the Earth of all open clusters, probably the best known and certainly the most striking to the naked eye.
  

Upcoming spaceflight launches

The next scheduled launches are an anti-ballistic missile test, which will be conducted on 19 November. The US Navy will launch a target missile from Barking Sands, to be intercepted by an SM-3 missile launched a few minutes later from the JDS Chōkai, of the JMSDF. These will be sub-orbital spaceflights.

The next scheduled orbital launch is of a Soyuz-U carrying the Progress M-1M spacecraft to resupply the ISS. Launch from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome is planned for 12:38:27 GMT on 26 November.

The next scheduled manned launch will be of Space Shuttle Discovery, on mission STS-119 to the International Space Station to deliver the S6 truss segment. Launch from LC-39A at KSC is scheduled for 12 February. A webcast can be viewed on NASA TV.

For a full launch schedule, see 2008 in spaceflight.
  

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Astronomical events in November 2008

All times UT unless otherwise specified.
2 November, 05:00 Moon at apogee
13 November, 06:19 Full moon
14 November, 10:00 Moon at perigee
25 November, 17:00 Mercury at superior conjunction
27 November, 16:56 New moon
29 November, 17:00 Moon at apogee
See events in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

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