Deep Impact
Ball Aerospace & Technologies
NASA's engineers doubted they could aim well enough at a comet so small and so fast. On 4 July 2005 the probe released an impactor of nearly 400 kg.
Photo: NASA/JPL (Public domain)
On 29 May French voters reject the European constitutional treaty in a referendum. In August Hurricane Katrina devastates New Orleans. In autumn riots shake several French suburbs. Quietly an online video platform called YouTube starts to take off and will soon change how people watch.
A few cards of the album
The start of their anecdote. The album's other cards are for you to discover in the game.
Ellen MacArthur
Round the world sailing record
71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes and 33 seconds: on the night of 7 to 8 February 2005, she took the solo round-the-world sailing record from Francis Joyon. Aboard the 23-metre trimaran B&Q/Castorama, she averaged 16.2 knots over 27,354 nautical miles.
Photo: Franck from Bordeaux, France (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Game Boy Micro
Nintendo
Codenamed Oxygen, it weighed 80 grams and was under 2 cm thick. It was the only one of its family that could not play older Nintendo handheld games, hence no 'Advance' in its name. Released a few months after Nintendo's two-screen handheld, it sold about 2.4 million: the least-sold of the whole line.
Photo: Evan-Amos (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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