Soyuz TMA-20 / Expedition 26 / 27 ( December 15, 2010, to May 23, 2011 ) was an extended duration mission to the International Space Station.

Galileo launch on a Soyuz rocket, 21 Oct 2011

The first two Galileo In-Orbit Validation satellites were launched by Soyuz ST-B flown from Guiana Space Centre on October 21, 2011.

The first two satellites were launched on 21 October 2011 from Guiana Space Centre using a Soyuz launcher.

The launch of Soyuz TMA-21 on 4 April 2011 was devoted to the 50th anniversary of the first manned space mission.

Currently Soyuz vehicles are launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwest Russia and, starting in 2011, Soyuz launch vehicles can now also be launched from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana.

On January 12, 2011, Space Adventures and the Russian Federal Space Agency announced that orbital space tourism would resume in 2013 with the increase of manned Soyuz launches to the ISS from four to five per year.

NASA retired the Space Shuttle in 2011, leaving America dependent upon the Russian Soyuz spacecraft for manned space missions.

With the retirement of the Space Shuttle fleet in 2011, future manned missions to the ISS will depend upon the Russian Soyuz spacecraft for the immediate future.

The first Soyuz launch from ELS was postponed several times, but launched on October 21, 2011.

On September 13, 2010 Spaceflight Now reported that after several delays in the construction of a mobile gantry the launch pad had been finished, and the first flight of the Soyuz is expected to occur in early 2011.

On January 14, 2011 BBC reported that the Soyuz launch complex will have its qualification review in April with the expectation for the first Soyuz to lift-off sometime between 15 August and 15 September 2011.

On October 21, 2011 two Galileo IOV-1 & IOV-2 satellites were launched using a Soyuz-ST rocket, in the " first Russian Soyuz vehicle ever launched from Europe ’ s Spaceport in French Guiana.

On December 17, 2011 another Soyuz was launched from Kourou carrying the French space agency's Pleiades 1 Earth imaging satellite, four ELISA electronic intelligence satellites, and the SSOT remote sensing satellite for the Chilean military.

By the late 1960s, those programmes were superseded by the Soyuz programme, which continues as of 2011.

The launch of Pléiades-1, via a Soyuz rocket, was confirmed on December 16, 2011.

* Paolo A. Nespoli, flew on STS-120 ( October 23 to November 7, 2007 ),; he then returned on the ISS for the long duration MagISStra mission ( Expedition 26 / 27, from December 15, 2010, to May 23, 2011 ) aboard the Soyuz TMA-20.

Originally conceived as a rover with a stationary ground station, ExoMars was planned to launch in 2011 aboard a Russian Soyuz Fregat rocket.

5-Meo-Mipt and other derivatives are illegal in Romania, as of January 2011.

On July 2011, Beltelecom announced a plan to raise the capacity of its Internet gateway to Russia by 20Gbit / s by the end of 2011 and announced a tender to provide the service.

In May 2011, in response to the increase presence of Over-the-Top ( OTT ) programming, the CRTC put a call out to the public to provide input on the impact OTT programming is having on Canadian content and existing broadcasting subscriptions through satellite and cable.

In Tahrir Square, Cairo, on Wednesday 2 February 2011, Coptic Christians joined hands to provide a protective cordon around their Muslim neighbors during salah ( prayers ) in the midst of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.

This was changed after 2011 when the AFL deemed that the wider sash did not provide a sufficient contrast.

Because the unified Swiss Code of Criminal Procedure ( set to enter into force in 2011 ) does not provide for jury trials or lay judges, however, they are likely to be abolished in the near future.

As of 2011, small solar PV systems provide electricity to a few million households, and micro-hydro configured into mini-grids serves many more.

* Ryan Chester's Virtually Reality ( 2011 ) depicts a future world in which most natural wonders have been destroyed and developed upon, and virtual reality systems provide the only way for humans to experience the nature they never knew for real.

In 2011, the group recommended the Bank provide recognition and incentives to staff and management for implementing activities which implement the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness principles of harmonization and alignment, promote greater use of sector-wide approaches to coordination, and explain the reasons why when a country's financial management system is not used so that the client country may address those shortcomings.

The association adopted the Immediate Response Mechanism in 2011 to provide IDA borrowers with immediate access to withdraw undisbursed portions of their loans, should a crisis arise that meets the mechanism's criteria.

In March 2011 The Guardian published an article concerning an agreement between the World Service and the US State department, in which the latter would provide the BBC with a " low six figure " sum so that new technology could be developed that would stop jamming and to educate people on how to avoid state censorship should they want to.

As of 2011, no accelerator experiments probe energies of sufficient magnitude to provide any experimental insight into the behavior of matter at the energy levels that prevailed during this period.

Both buildings were renovated in 2011 and provide modern classrooms for seminars of about 16 – 18 students as well as a military and civilian instructor.

The Harlingen Ambulatory Surgery and Specialty Outpatient Center will provide care to veterans and is expected to open in January 2011.

To assist physicians in the skills necessary to provide this oversight, the Wilderness Medical Society and the National Association of EMS Physicians jointly supported the development in 2011 of a unique " Wilderness EMS Medical Director " certification course, which was cited by the Journal of EMS as one of the Top 10 EMS Innovations of 2011.

A report in 2011 suggested that information on underwater grasses would be released, since " submerged grasses provide food and habitat for a number of species, adding oxygen to the water and improving water clarity.

* 2011: The University of Brighton's International College opens on the Brighton campus, to provide international students with preparatory academic tuition for undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

For Christmas 2011, a new single seater mod came available. The F2 1967 Mod provide new accurate cars shapes, drivers, car sounds and physics. The Formula 2 physics were intended to get close racing online, with most of the cars sharing the same Ford Cosworth FVA 1600cc engine. Despite this, as others GPL mods, the F2 mod benefit of the extended 11 different cars slots with their individual handling. In 1967, drivers took part in no less than 23 Formula 2 races.

However in October 2011 Wandsworth Council proposed a revised plan called Airtrack-Lite, which would provide trains from Waterloo to Heathrow via the same proposed spur from Staines to Heathrow, but by diverting or splitting current services the frequency of trains over the existing level crossings would not increase.

Also in March 2011, Bombardier announced that it had signed a memorandum of understanding ( MOU ) with China's ICBC Financial Leasing to provide advance aircraft payment financing for Bombardier customers worth $ 8 billion.

In 2010 and 2011, the foundation granted a total of US $ 4. 48 million to affiliates of the International Planned Parenthood Federation around the world that advocate, among other things, legalization of abortion or provide abortion services.

In late 2010 and 2011, platform humps were installed on all Victoria Line stations except Pimlico to provide step-free access to trains.

As Amani Elobeid and John Beghin note, the world price might decline by as much as 48 % ( by 2011 / 2012 baselines ) were these distortions to be removed

As Ribuffo ( 2011 ) notes, " what Americans now call conservatism much of the world calls liberalism or neoliberalism.

Another much less severe earthquake occurred near the city in September 2011.

APNIC was the first RIR to exhaust its regional pool on 15 April 2011, except for a small amount of address space reserved for the transition to IPv6, which will be allocated in a much more restricted way.

The foreign relations of Libya under Gaddafi ( 1969 – 2011 ) underwent much fluctuation and change.

However, during a 2011 interview with former castmate Ed Asner on the O ' Reilly Factor, Asner stated that Moore " has become much more conservative of late.

The rivalry regained much of its tension in the 2011 NFL season when the Jets and Giants met in Week 16.

On May 3, 2011, it was announced that Patti Smith is one of the winners of the Polar Music Prize: " By devoting her life to art in all its forms, Patti Smith has demonstrated how much rock ’ n ' roll there is in poetry and how much poetry there is in rock ’ n ' roll.

Notwithstanding the collectively poor performance over the years, the Phillies have performed much better in recent seasons, winning five consecutive division titles from 2007 through 2011.

In May 2011, an analysis of red wolf, Eastern wolf, gray wolf, and dog genomes revealed that the red wolf was 76-80 percent coyote and only 20-24 percent gray wolf, suggesting that the red wolf is actually much more coyote in origin than the Eastern wolf.

The show was originally performed in the Fall of 2011 in Los Angeles and consists of live performances of much of the music from the series.

Following much intensified media speculation, The Stone Roses called a press conference on 18 October 2011 to announce that the band had reunited and would perform a reunion tour of the world in 2012, including three homecoming shows in Manchester.

As of 2011, nuclear power remains one of the most important sources of energy in Sweden, much attributed to Palme's actions.

( He had been married to an English woman much earlier in life — primarily, it was believed as of mid-February 2011, to obtain a British passport.

Because this presents a significant advantage to the team winning the coin toss to decide who receives the first overtime possession, the NFL moved in 2011 to require that if both teams have not had possession of the ball prior to the first score, then the team who does have possession must score a touchdown to end the game, preventing the team winning the coin toss from making a much shorter drive down the field and kicking a " golden goal " without the other team having a chance to touch the ball.

The state budget deficit for 2011 was 4. 7 %, considerably larger than expected, and much larger than the EU-mandated maximum of 3 %.

* Clare Birchall, '" There's been too much secrecy in this City ": The false choice between secrecy and transparency in US politics ' Cultural Politics, March, 2011.

In the much anticipated 2011 NBA Playoffs, Miami defeated the Philadelphia 76ers in the first round, Boston Celtics in the Conference Semifinals, and Bulls in the Conference Finals, all in 5 games.

In 2011 after much debate the government put forward proposals in 2011 to recognise or relocate thirteen of the unrecognised villages as official bedouin townships.

Historian and novelist Deborah Harkness, set much of the early part of her 2011 novel, A Discovery of Witches, in the Bodleian, particularly the Selden End.

The vast majority of the county population lies in and around the city of Tucson ( 2011 city population: 525, 796 ), filling much of the eastern part of the county with urban development.

He has voiced Piglet in Kingdom Hearts II, Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie ( only for the newest material since much of the dialogue is still voiced by Fielder ) the My Friends Tigger & Pooh television series, and the 2011 film Winnie the Pooh.