Lithuania in the News
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26th May 2013
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First Lithuanian Satellite to be Launched |
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Laurynas Mačiulis (left) and Vytenis Buzas at the NASA Ames Center.
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Visualising Lituanica SAT-1.
Photo courtesy vgtu.lt Lithuanians are no strangers to space exploration. There have been two astronauts of Lithuanian heritage and each has been a veteran of three space flights. They are the American astronaut Karol Bobko, whose mother was Lithuanian Petronėlė Sagatis, and the Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Yeliseyev, whose father was Lithuanian Stanislovas Kuraitis. Further information: http://www.kosmonautai.lt/ http://www.studyinlithuania.lt/en/news/lithuanianstudentstolaunchcountrysfirstsatellite http://www.vgtu.lt/media/files/24/inz-02-2013-1-.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karol_J._Bobko http://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksejus_Jelisejevas |