History

"The minimum bacteria are examples of a subset of the Earth bacteria which people didn't know before. Till now， we havent yet fully understood the lifestyle and characteristics of them."

——Jill Banfield

Spectral Sky Survey （2012-2017）， the first phrase of Guo Shoujing Telescope （LAMOST） is expected to receive more than 5 million high-quality spectrum.

—— Secretary of the party committee of National Observatory Zhao Gang

"If you invite aliens to Earth， it might be the doomsday for mankind."

——Stephen Hawking

"We are at a critical point of the head transplantation can be achieved if the community does not need to， I will not carry out this operation."

——Sergio Vero Cana

On April 12， 1981， Columbia， the first shuttle developed by US National Aeronautics and Space Administration （NASA） entered the orbit around the Earth for the first time. The central part of the shuttle is a winged orbiter， which can launch vertically， and when re-entering the Earth's atmosphere， it can land like an airplane. Columbia consists the first aircraft on formal service in the US shuttle fleet. Its launch officially opened the plan of NASA Space Transportation System. However， during the 28th mission codenamed STS-107 in 2003， Columbia lost contact with the control center in reentry stage， and was later found exploded and disintegrated in the sky over Texas.