Aerospace Aeronautical Astronautical Engineering
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Lance Bass astronaut
Pop star Lance Bass dreams of going into space have officially gone pop! The Russian Space Agency notified the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) today (Sept. 9) that the N Sync singer won t fly to the international space station next month. Bass had hoped to rocket away from Kazakhstan on Oct. 28, boosted by corporate sponsors and a seven-part television documentary…
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First Hispanic woman astronaut
Member of U.S. Congress: Joseph Marion Hernández, 1822, delegate from the Florida territory. U.S. Representative: Romualdo Pacheco, a representative from California, was elected in 1876 by a one-vote margin. He served for four months before his opponent succeeded in contesting the results. In 1879 he was again elected to Congress, where he served for two terms. U.S. Senator: Octaviano…
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List of Apollo astronauts
Tragedy struck on the launch pad during a preflight test for Apollo 204 (AS-204), which was scheduled to be the first Apollo manned mission, and would have been launched on February 21, 1967. Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee lost their lives when a fire swept through the Command Module (CM). The Apollo 1 astronauts were: Virgil I. Grissom, Jr., Commander…
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Astronauts information
Astronauts are persons trained to fly or operate systems aboard a spacecraft. Astronaut is the term typically applied to those who fly on U.S. spacecraft, whereas cosmonaut refers to crewmembers who have flown on Russian space vehicles. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) selected the first American astronauts in 1959 to pilot the single-seat Mercury spacecraft…
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Jack Schmitt astronaut
Astronaut Harrison Schmitt collects lunar rake samples during an Apollo 17 moonwalk in December 1972. Credit: NASA SAN FRANCISCO — The last manned mission to the moon launched 40 years ago today, but astronaut Harrison Schmitt remembers it like it was yesterday. NASA s Apollo 17 mission blasted off in the early hours of Dec. 7, 1972, carrying Schmitt, Gene Cernan and Ron Evans toward…
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Challenger astronauts names
The Challenger shuttle crew, of seven astronauts-including the specialties of pilot, aerospace engineers, and scientists- died tragically in the explosion of their spacecraft during the launch of STS-51-L from the Kennedy Space Center about 11:40 a.m., EST, on January 28, 1986. The explosion occurred 73 seconds into the flight as a result of a leak in one of two Solid Rocket Boosters…
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