INPE - 2001

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First lightning observation with high-speed cameras in the country.
INPE and China starts to switch CBERS-1 satellite control.
Early microgravity experiments with project, construction and flight qualification of sounding rockets in a multiuser oven for rapid solidification of metallic alloys and semiconductors.

Worldwide

•After 15 years in orbit, Mir Russian space station is deactivated and destroyed on entering Earth's atmosphere. Throughout his working life it served as a laboratory for more than 20 000 experiments and received more than 60 astronauts from 12 countries.

• 60 years old, Dennis Tito becomes the first space tourist, travelling on the Russian spacecraft Soyuz-TM32.

Dennis Tito.