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Deep Impact debuted at the North American box office with $41 million in ticket sales. It managed to cross over Twister , scoring the tenth-highest opening weekend of all time. [ 19 ] For a decade, the film held the record for having the biggest opening weekend for a female-directed film until it was taken by Twilight in 2008. [ 20 ]
Jessica Andrea Watkins (born May 14, 1988) is an American NASA astronaut, geologist, aquanaut and former international rugby player. Watkins was announced as the first Black woman who completed an International Space Station long-term mission in April 2022.
Sunita Lyn "Suni" Williams (née Pandya; born September 19, 1965) is an American astronaut, current commander of the International Space Station, retired U.S. Navy officer, and one of the most experienced spacewalkers with nine spacewalks (second most for a woman) and a total time of 62 hours and 6 minutes (fourth overall, current record-holder for most hours spent during spacewalks by a woman).
In the summer of 1998, Hollywood offered up not one, but two blockbuster films about asteroids hurtling towards Earth. Released on May 8 of that year, Deep Impact, directed by Mimi Leder, told a ...
The class of 1996, the 16th group of NASA astronauts, was the largest selected since the first class of Space Shuttle astronauts in 1978, which also numbered 35. They were ordered to report for duty at Johnson Space Center to commence their astronaut training on August 12, 1996. [2] [28] They were joined by nine international astronauts. [29]
Two Nasa astronauts participated in a rare all-female spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday morning (1 November). Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara exited the ISS in ...
A one-month delay after the failure of two Russian rockets extended her stay in space past the European astronaut and female astronaut endurance records. [ 33 ] As an amateur radio woman , [ 34 ] she participated in the ARISS initiative, Amateur Radio on the International Space Station , [ 35 ] establishing numerous contacts with schools, both ...
Emily Calandrelli has issued a response to the “small men on the internet” who belittled and sexualized her after she became the 100th woman to go to space. The female astronaut and MIT ...