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The East-German alternative rock band Down Below samples the recording at the beginning of their song "How To Die In Space", from the 2004 album Silent Wings: Eternity. Michael Jackson used the ending part of the Apollo 8 Genesis on his song " HIStory " from his album HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I (1995).
In October 2021, the space agency awarded a contract to SpaceX for $2.9 billion to use its Starship rocket to land astronauts on the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.
Challenger is a 1990 American disaster drama television film based on the events surrounding the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986. Its production was somewhat controversial [10] as the families [11] [12] of the astronauts generally objected to it.
Sharon Christa McAuliffe (née Corrigan; September 2, 1948 – January 28, 1986) was an American teacher and astronaut from Concord, New Hampshire who died on the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where she was serving as a payload specialist.
SpaceX Crew-8 mission had a safe splashdown and recovery after landing in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida, at 3:29 a.m. local time — the space agency’s eighth commercial crew ...
NASA is bringing home astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore, who have been stuck in space for 80 days. CNN reported that NASA held a review to discuss the situation on ...
Suzanna Randall (born 6 December 1979) is a German astrophysicist working at the European Southern Observatory. [1] [2] In 2018, Randall was selected as an astronaut candidate by the private spaceflight organisation Die Astronautin ("The Female Astronaut"), which aims to send the first German woman into space.
Albert II, a rhesus monkey, became the first mammal in space aboard a U.S. V-2 rocket on June 14, 1949, and died on reentry due to a parachute failure. The first dogs in space were launched 22 July 1951 aboard a Soviet R-1V. "Tsygin" and "Dezik" reached a height of 100 km (62 mi) and safely parachuted back to Earth.