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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 ]
Kalpana Chawla (March 17, 1962 – February 1, 2003) was an Indian American astronaut and aerospace engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to fly to space. Chawla expressed an interest in aerospace engineering from an early age and took engineering classes at Dayal Singh College and Punjab Engineering College in India.
As of May 2023, there has been one female space traveler each from France, Italy, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and the United Kingdom; two each from Canada and Japan; three from China; six from the Soviet Union/Russia; and 56 from the United States. [1] The time between the first male and first female astronauts varied widely by country.
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 ...
Sian Hayley "Leo" Proctor (March 28, 1970) is an American commercial astronaut, geology professor, artist, author, and science communicator.She became the first female commercial spaceship pilot and the first artist selected to go to be an astronaut on the all-civilian Inspiration4 orbital spaceflight, 15 September 2021.
Sara Sabry (born May 23, 1993) is an Egyptian–Lebanese engineer, citizen astronaut, and entrepreneur. In 2022, as part of the Blue Origin NS-22 mission, she became the first Egyptian to travel into space, as well as the first African-born or Arab woman. [2] She is also the founder and CEO of the Deep Space Initiative, a non-profit ...
Recently released photos of two NASA astronauts stranded aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have caused health concerns to rise. Although Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore were ...
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