Chinese astronauts from space speak with President Hu Jintao

Beijing. - Chinese President Hu Jintao, accompanied by other leaders of the communist regime, today visited the Aerospace Control Center in Beijing, where he could communicate with the three astronauts country currently orbiting Earth aboard the module "Tiangong I "point of departure for China's future space station. According to news agency Xinhua, Hu, Vice President Xi Jinping, Vice Premier Li Keqiang and

Meteorite that killed dinosaurs dyed tomato red

Scientists from the Wageningen University in the Netherlands, say the meteorite 10 kilometers in diameter that hit the earth causing the extinction of the dinosaurs and 70% of living species on the planet , was also responsible for the red color of tomatoes today.

This hypothesis was born after the May 30 publication of the tomato genome in the journal Nature. According to that study the genetic sequence of the plant was smaller than at present, but it tripled in size between 60 and 70 million years, coinciding with the collision of celestial object.

You know what astronauts were on the Apollo 10, 42 years ago?

On a day like today but 42 years ago, NASA launched the mission to the Moon Apollo 10 manned spacecraft manned by U.S. astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young and Eugene A. Cernan in what would be the mission prior to the first descent of humans on the lunar surface. In an eight-day mission, astronauts traveled to the moon and inserted into orbit. Its main purpose was to test the lunar module operation in a similar exercise of descent to only 10 km altitude of the lunar surface without reaching land. Would also take hundreds of photographs of the candidate sites to land on the moon the following ships.