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3 days ago · Telecommunications included voice, television, data, and tracking and ranging subsystems for communications between astronauts, CM, LM, and Earth. Voice contact was provided by an S-band uplink and downlink system. Tracking was done through a unified S-band transponder.
2 days ago · NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will fly on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on ULA's Atlas V rocket from SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The mission to the...
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20 hours ago · Parachutists jumped from World War II-era planes into now peaceful Normandy to kick off a week of ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Soldiers from across the United States, Britain, Canada and other Allied nations waded ashore through hails of fire on five beaches on June 6, 1944. French officials, grateful Normandy survivors and other admirers are saying “merci” but also ...
4 days ago · Ed Dwight: A space pioneer who finally became an astronaut. 2 days ago. By Sue Nelson. Blue Origin. Ed Dwight could have been the only black astronaut in the 1960s – but politics got in the...
1 day ago · Apollo 18 ( canceled ) →. Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the eleventh and final mission of NASA 's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon or traveled beyond low Earth orbit. Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans ...
3 days ago · Apollo 10 (May 18–26, 1969) was the fourth human spaceflight in the United States' Apollo program and the second to orbit the Moon. NASA, the mission's operator, described it as a "dress rehearsal" for the first Moon landing ( Apollo 11, two months later [4] ).
2 days ago · Top Questions. Who is Sunita Williams? Where was Sunita Williams educated? What were Sunita Williams’s jobs? Sunita Williams (born September 19, 1965, Euclid, Ohio, U.S.) is an American astronaut who set records on her two flights to the International Space Station (ISS). In 1983 Williams entered the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.
