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4 days ago · Neil Armstrong (born August 5, 1930, Wapakoneta, Ohio, U.S.—died August 25, 2012, Cincinnati, Ohio) was a U.S. astronaut, and the first person to set foot on the Moon. Early life and career. Neil Armstrong was the eldest of three children born to Viola Louise Engel and Stephen Koenig Armstrong, a state auditor.
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May 16, 2024 · The day and month for the GGU are set: 04.04.2024. Let's use this as a pretext to talk about release dates. Posted on 2024/03/14 Continue reading.
3 days ago · August 15, 1987. Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982.
1 day ago · Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Coordinates: 28°38′24″N 80°16′48″W. On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard. The spacecraft disintegrated 46,000 feet (14 km) above the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 11:39 a.m. EST (16:39 UTC ).
May 25, 2024 · On July 21 Armstrong and Aldrin rejoined him, and the following day the astronauts left lunar orbit. They splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on July 24. The three astronauts spent 18 days in quarantine to guard against possible contamination by lunar microbes.
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11 hours ago · June 1, 2024, at 7:05 a.m. Boeing Counts Down Again to Its First Astronaut Launch on a Long-Delayed Test Flight for NASA. More. Chris O'Meara. Boeing's Starliner capsule, atop an Atlas V rocket ...
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3 days ago · Apollo 8 (December 21–27, 1968) was the first crewed spacecraft to leave Earth's gravitational sphere of influence, and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon. The crew orbited the Moon ten times without landing, and then departed safely back to Earth .
