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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