Astronauts that walked on the moon
Captain Gene Cernan was the third man to walk in space, one of only three people to go to the Moon twice and the last man to leave a footprint on the lunar surface. The final words he spoke on the Moon in December 1972 represented everything the Apollo missions stood for. “We leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, ” he said, “with peace and hope for all mankind.”…
Dead Space Astronaut Suit
Sticky this topic please. Here is a link to a visual guide that displays images of all the DLC suits and weapons, as well as detailing the armor rating of each suit: The available DLC packs and their contents are as follows: The Elite Weapon Skin Pack 120MS points, includes skins for the Plasma Cutter, Line Gun, and Pulse Rifle. The Speed Kills Pack 180MS points, includes faster-firing…
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All astronauts
Photo: Courtesy of Vincent Fournier Vincent Fournier: General Boris V. (Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center [GCTC], Star City, Zvyozdny Gorodok, Russia, 2007 “We are all astronauts” is the motto of an interdisciplinary and international conference being hosted by the Institute for European Art History of Heidelberg University from 22 to 25 October 2015. Junior researchers in…
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Space astronauts
Two US astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station s airlock this morning to work on the maintenance of the station. The astronauts were outside the space station for six and a half hours Their tasks included installing a thermal cover on the state-of-the-art particle physics detector that has been attached to the station since 2011. The spacewalk was the 32nd carried…
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Astronauts dress
Fashion icon: Buzz Aldrin on the moon in July 1969.(Neil Armstrong/NASA) When the first humans left the earth—Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d’Arlandes, riding the Montgolfier brothers’ balloon 900 meters above Paris —they wore the long, ornamental coats, and tricornered hats in fashion for French aristocrats of the time. And when Orville Wright piloted the first manned flight…
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Astronaut definition
4, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - In anticipation of returning human spaceflight launches to American soil, and in preparation for the agency s Journey to Mars, NASA announced it will soon begin accepting applications for the next class of astronaut candidates.1APOLLO 1 APOLLO 13 (1995) THE real-life story of the doomed Moon trip brought to the big screen with Tom Hanks as astronaut…
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Shuttle astronauts
What would you tell seven astronauts if you knew their space shuttle was crippled on orbit? It was a question that faced NASA s Mission Control considered after initial suspicions that something might be wrong with the shuttle Columbia as it was making its doomed reentry in 2003. Wayne Hale, who later became space shuttle program manager, struggled with this question after the deaths…
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