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As a result, investigators want to know what was first to come off the spacecraft.

A piece of foam insulation the size of a briefcase fell off the spacecraft's external fuel tank, cracking some of the heat-resistant tiles on the Shuttle's left wing.

Although SILC loses the full spatial coverage of the corona, it can observe the inner part of the corona (down to 1.5 solar radii) during the whole mission and compensate the off-pointing of the spacecraft.

After a great deal of international effort and years of work to analyse the tracking data, the explanation was revealed to be a more mundane effect – it was the excess heat bouncing off the back of the spacecraft's main antenna.

Television images appeared to show Columbia breaking up in the air, with multiple contrails breaking off from the spacecraft.

Some of the Advanced Gemini proposals used "off-the-shelf" Gemini spacecraft, unmodified from the original program, whilst others featured modifications to allow the spacecraft to carry more crew, dock with space stations, visit the Moon, and perform other mission objectives.

If it gets off on time, the spacecraft is expected to fly past Pluto and its moons in 2015.

This morning brought what are possibly the first details of the plot, and this afternoon director JJ Abrams has shown off the X-Wing spacecraft as it will appear in the sequel.

Millions of Americans gathered around small black and white television sets in the hot July of 1969 to watch Neil Armstrong step off the Apollo 11 spacecraft and set his left boot onto untouched moon dust.

The agency's first mission to orbit it is scheduled to lift off in May, and the spacecraft, known as Messenger, has been undergoing reliability tests.

"Before turning everything off, we spun up the spacecraft to keep it stable," explains Prof Mark McCaughrean, a senior official in Esa's science directorate.