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May 31, 2019 · But where did the Apollo program’s name come from in the first place? The answer is equal parts history, tradition, mythological symbolism, and sounding cool.
At about 1:15 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday, the Apollo astronauts woke from a 10-hour rest period and were 12 hours into their 60-hour ride back from the Moon. As they got started on their day ...
- Charles Fishman
Apr 17, 2015 · The camera was then positioned on a tripod about 30 feet from the LM. Half an hour later, President Nixon spoke by telephone link with the astronauts. Commemorative medallions bearing the names of the three Apollo 1 astronauts who lost their lives in a launch pad fire, and two cosmonauts who also died in accidents, were left on the moon’s ...
- What Is A Spacecraft Call Sign?
- American Call Signs
- Project Mercury
- Project Gemini
- Apollo Programme
- Houston
- Soviet and Russian Spacecraft Call Signs
- Yuri Gagarin
A call sign is a label given to a vehicle, mission or person in internal communications during missions to space. Different nations and missions use call signs differently. Call signs that were used in significant missions have gone down in history, with the code words becoming common parlance.
American call signs are used to refer to vehicles, missions or projects. Throughout NASA’s history, there have been phases where the call sign was decided upon by the crew itself. Traditionally they have not been as regulated as other call signs, such as the ones used for aircraft. Often the names take inspiration from what the mission symbolises, ...
Originally Project Mercury, the first human spaceflight programme run by the United States, was named Project Astronaut. However, Dwight D. Eisenhower, the US President at the time, felt that this gave too much prominence to the astronauts, and so the name was changed. The name Mercury comes from classical mythology – Mercury is a Roman God. Projec...
The astronauts of NASA’s second human spaceflight mission, Project Gemini, were not officially allowed to name their spacecraft. Instead each individual spacecraft was simply referred to as ‘Gemini’ followed by the number of the mission. However, Gemini 3 command module pilot Gus Grissom nicknamed his spacecraft Molly Brown after the Titanic surviv...
Project Apollo kept up the trend of taking inspiration from classical mythology: Apollo was a significant God to both the Greeks and the Romans. For the Apollo 7 and 8 missions, call signs were limited to simply mission name and number. However, in 1969 the Apollo 9 mission used two different spacecraft: the lunar module and the command module. For...
Whilst the call signs of the spacecraft were given special names, the mission control call sign was much simpler. Since the Gemini 4 mission, the control centre for NASA missions had been housed in NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center, which in 1973 was renamed the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. In radio communications however the base was simply refer...
Russian missions don’t have individual names for their spacecraft. Instead, their call sign often refers to the type of spacecraft being used followed by its mission number. Soviet and now Russian call signs are given to individual cosmonauts, and are not disclosed publicly before launch. As a cosmonaut goes on different missions or pilots various ...
The first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, was a Russian cosmonaut. His call sign was ‘Kedr’ which translates as 'Cedar'. The innocuous sounding call sign meant that anyone listening in to conversations about the mission would not immediately know who or what was being referred to. Eagle was a call sign popular across nations. After Gagarin’s journey in...
Aug 31, 2022 · To reflect the feminist aspirations of the mission, Nasa named the undertaking Artemis after the Ancient Greek goddess of that name, the daughter of Zeus and Leto and twin sister of...
- Joe Sommerlad
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Jul 22, 2019 · He was referring to the Lunar Receiving Laboratory at the Manned Spacecraft Center, now the Johnson Space Center in Houston, where the astronauts were quarantined after their mission and the Moon rocks were first examined.
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Apollo 11, U.S. spaceflight during which commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Edwin (“Buzz”) Aldrin, Jr., on July 20, 1969, became the first people to land on the Moon. Apollo 11 was the culmination of the Apollo program and a massive national commitment by the United States to beat the Soviet Union in putting people on the Moon.
