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3 days ago · 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. She was the youngest American astronaut to have ...
4 days ago · THE OFFICIAL NASA BROADCAST. Launch coverage of NASA’s Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test, with NASA Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, to the International Space Station. Launch is scheduled for 12:25 p.m. EDT. WATCH June 1, 2024 at 8:15 am.
3 days ago · This is a list of all astronauts who have engaged in an EVA by partly or fully leaving a spacecraft, exclusive of extravehicular activity on the lunar surface. It is ordered chronologically by the date of first spacewalk. For a list of astronauts who have performed lunar EVA ("moonwalks") see List of Apollo astronauts who walked on the Moon.
2 days ago · NASA, independent U.S. governmental agency established in 1958 for the research and development of vehicles and activities for space exploration. NASA was created largely in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik in 1957, and its headquarters are in Washington, D.C.
5 days ago · Jann Wenner The Who have been regarded primarily as a rock band, yet have taken influence from several other styles of music during their career. The original group played a mixture of trad jazz and contemporary pop hits as the Detours, and R&B in 1963. The group moved to a mod sound the following year, particularly after hearing the Small Faces fuse Motown with a harsher R&B sound. The group ...
4 days ago · Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton. The first group of astronauts selected by NASA were for Project Mercury in April 1959. All seven were military test pilots, a requirement specified by President Eisenhower to simplify the selection process.
2 days ago · Astronaut Buzz Aldrin in life-supporting suit looking back at the first lunar habitat and base, the Lunar Module Eagle of Tranquility Base, during Apollo 11 (1969), the first crewed Moon landing The only instances of humans living on the Moon have taken place in an Apollo Lunar Module for several days at a time (for example, during the Apollo 17 mission). [284]
