WASHINGTON Femme Puma Fenty Bow Slides Noir , Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- U.S. astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Scott Tingle in the International Space Station completed the first spacewalk this year at 14:13 American Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, American space agency NASA said.
The two astronauts lasted 7 hours and 24 minutes and replaced a Latching End Effector (LEE) on the station's robotic arm, Canadarm2. There are two redundant end effectors on each end of the arm used to grapple visiting vehicles and components during a variety of operational activities, NASA said.
The spacewalk was the 206th in support of space station assembly and maintenance, the third in Vande Hei's career and the first for Tingle.
Vande Hei will venture outside the station again on January 29 with engineer Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to stow a spare latching end effector removed from the robotic arm last October on to the station's mobile base system rail car for future use.
NASA said spacewalkers have now spent a total of 53 days 13 hours Femme Puma Fenty Bow Slides Blanche , and 49 minutes working outside the station in support of assembly and maintenance of the orbiting laboratory.
NEW YORK, May 28 (Xinhua) -- A book launch and a photo exhibition of the "Shared Memories of the US and China" in fighting side by side in the second World War were held on Thursday as part of the ongoing BookExpo America (BEA) 2015.
"This year marks the 70th anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War. Seventy years ago, Chinese and U.S. soldiers and civilians fought side by side for peace in the Pacific Region. Their heroic deeds and daily lives have been preserved and passed on by means of photos and films," said Xu Bu, president of the Foreign Languages Press Femme Puma Fenty Bow Slides Rose , at the launch ceremony.
"Today we offer this book and photo exhibition in honor of our fallen heroes, our shared memories and China-US friendship," said Xu.
The book titled "Shared Memories of the US and China: The Pacific War Against Japanese Aggression" contains 260 photos. Both the Chinese and English editions were launched Thursday.
"We have also provided an exhibition of photos for you to learn more about the book, which recalls the history of the two great nations fighting together as comrades-in-arms against Japanese aggressors," said Fang Zhenghui Claquette Puma Fourrure Bordeaux , vice president of China International Publishing Group (CIPG).
"Among the selected images are photos taken by soldiers of the US Army Signal Corps portraying the Chinese and US troops living, drilling, and fighting battles against the Japanese aggressors in the China Burma India Theater, and photos preserved by the Institute of Modern History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Academy of History of Chinese Resistance Against Japanese Aggression Claquette Puma Fourrure Jaune , and China Pictorial," said Fang.
BookExpo America (BEA) 2015, the largest annual book trade fair in the United States, is held at the Javits Convention Center in New York City from Wednesday to Friday.
BEA, which dates back to 1947 and was then known as the American Booksellers Association Convention and Trade Show Claquette Puma Fourrure Pourpre , is usually held in a major U.S. city in late May or early June. It offers the largest selection of English language titles and is also the largest gathering of booksellers, librarians, retailers and book industry professionals in North America.
China, an emerging power in the international publishing industry, has been invited as the Guest of Honor for BEA 2015's Global Market Forum (GMF) program Claquette Puma Fourrure Rose , which features three full days of education sessions, exhibits and off-site cultural events.
STRASBOURG, July 19 (Xinhua) -- The remains of Jewish victims of Nazi anatomist August Hirt have been discovered at the Forensic Institute of Strasbourg, the office of the French city's mayor said this weekend.
They are the remains of victims mostly brought from other concentration camps to be killed at the Natzweiler-Struthof camp, which is situated 60 km south west of Strasbourg.
Natzweiler-Struthof was the only concentration camp built on what is now French territory.
The discovery follows research by Dr. Raphael Toledano Claquette Puma Fourrure Rouge , author of several works on what happened to the bodies of victims brought to the Institute during the Second World War. With the support of its current director, Dr. Toledano was able to identify, on July 9, several remains preserved in a jar and test tubes.
A statement from the Mayor's office said "skin fragments of a victim of the gas chamber" and "intestinal and stomach contents as well as an identification tag used in the incineration of bodies" were found to belong to some of the 86 victims of a pseudo-scientific collection of "Jewish skeletons" initiated by Hirt, who was chairman of what was then the Reich University in Strasbourg.
The unidentified remains were in the Institute's collection Claquette Puma Fourrure Grise , which was closed to the public. "The labels identify each piece with precision and include a serial number - 107969 - which matches the number tattooed on the forearm of an inmate of Auschwitz concentration camp, Menachem Taffel," the statement continued. The mayor's office said the identification number has been confirmed according to the archives of Auschwitz.
Dr. Toledano had previously come across a letter dated 1952 from former Professor of Forensic Medicine of Strasbourg, Camille Simonin, which mentioned jars containing samples taken during the forensic autopsies performed on Jewish victims of the Struthof gas chamber.
The now identified remains were part of those kept by Professor Simonin after he conducted autopsies at the request of the military authorities to establish how the 86 victims had been killed.
They will now be handed over to the Jewish Community of Strasbourg for proper burial and join the remains of other victims buried in the aftermath of the war in the Jewish cemetery at Cronenbourg.