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2 days ago · Buzz Aldrin ( / ˈɔːldrɪn /; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and was the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission.
- Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was...
- Neil Armstrong
3 days ago · The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in preparing and landing the first men [2] on the Moon from 1968 to 1972.
2 days 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 ).
1 day ago · What is SpaceX? Where is SpaceX located? What was SpaceX's first rocket? Why was SpaceX created?
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- SpaceX is an American aerospace company founded in 2002 by Elon Musk that helped usher in the era of commercial spaceflight. Its name in full is Sp...
- SpaceX is headquartered in Hawthorne, California. Its other sites include launch facilities in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and at Vandenberg Space For...
- SpaceX’s first rocket was the Falcon 1, a two-stage liquid-fueled craft designed to send small satellites into Earth orbit. The Falcon 1 was signif...
- In 2002 SpaceX was created by entrepreneur Elon Musk, whose stated goals were to revolutionize the aerospace industry and to make spaceflight more...
- SpaceX is not a public company. Elon Musk suggested that the long-term goal of achieving regular flights to Mars could conflict with the short-term...
5 days ago · May 29, 2024. Article. On May 27, 1999, the second space station assembly and logistics mission began. The main goals of STS-96, designated as the 2A.1 mission in the overall assembly sequence, included resupplying and repairing the fledgling orbital facility, consisting of the Zarya and Node 1 modules assembled during STS-88 in December 1998.
4 days ago · Yi Soyeon (born June 2, 1978, Kwangju, South Korea) is a South Korean scientist and astronaut, the first South Korean citizen in space. Yi earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Taejŏn in 2001 and 2002, respectively.
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2 days ago · 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. She was made an ensign in 1987 and reported for aviator training at the Naval Aviation Training Command.
