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STS 5 - Wanborough Manor, Puttenham, Guildford, Surrey - initially the Preliminary School for F (French) Section, later (from June 1943) holding depot for Dutch agents and training of German Army PoWs as BONZOs.
SOE Section Nationality Born-Died Awards Notes Alf Espedal: Norwegian Independent Company 1: Norwegian: 1914–1969: Trained in STS 26 at Glen More and other Special Training Schools. In charge of "Operation Osprey" that parachuted in Rogaland county on Dec. 10 1943. Reginald Harold Everson: 1923–1990: Francois Michelle William Reeve ...
STS-5 was the fifth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the fifth flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia. It launched on November 11, 1982, and landed five days later on November 16, 1982. STS-5 was the first Space Shuttle mission to deploy communications satellites into orbit, and the first officially "operational" Space Shuttle mission.
SETP charter member Scott Crossfield in the cockpit of the second Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket built (NACA 144) just after the first ever flight to exceed Mach 2 on November 20, 1953
Harry Alfred Rée, DSO, OBE (15 October 1914 – 17 May 1991) was a British educationist and wartime member of the Special Operations Executive.Of the more than 400 SOE agents who worked in France during World War II, M.R.D. Foot, the official historian of the SOE in France, named Rée as one of the half-dozen best male agents.
Harris English lines up a putt on the fourth hole on the South Course at Torrey Pines during the third round of the Farmers Insurance Open golf tournament Friday, Jan. 24, 2025, in San Diego.
The Shuttle Ejection Escape Suit was used from STS-1 (1981) to STS-4 (1982) by a two-man crew used in conjunction with Space Shuttle Columbia's ejection seats. It allowed ejections up to Mach 2.7 and 24.4 km (80,000 ft). [1] The suit was manufactured by the David Clark Company of Worcester, Massachusetts.
Crews began the complex job of lifting American Airlines Flight 5432 from the Potomac River after it collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter in the Washington, D.C., area.