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August 25, 1988

A new exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum highlights space science missions of the European Space Agency. It features full-scale models of the “Giotto” spacecraft, which approached within 370 miles of Comet Halley in 1986 and obtained the first detailed image of the comet nucleus; the “Ulysses” spacecraft, which will study the poles of the Sun; the “Hipparcos” satellite which will carry an astronomical telescope to bring unprecedented accuracy to the determination of positions and motions of the starts; and the “Exosat” satellite which will study x-ray sources in our galaxy and beyond.

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Alex di Giovanni is primarily responsible for "other duties as assigned" in the Office of Communications and External Affairs. She has been with the Smithsonian since 2006 and plans to be interred in the Smithson crypt.