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  2. List of spaceflight records - Wikipedia

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    V-2 No. 47: First mammal in space, Albert II, a rhesus monkey (suborbital flight). Died in capsule parachute failure. USA 14 June 1949 Earth: R-1V [60] First dogs in space (suborbital flight). Successfully recovered. USSR 22 July 1951 Earth: Sputnik 1: First satellite in orbit. [5] USSR 4 October 1957 Earth: Sputnik 2: First animal in orbit ...

  3. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    5.4 × 10 83 Qs (1.7 × 10 106 years): The approximate lifespan of a supermassive black hole with a mass of 20 trillion solar masses [21] 10 10 10 76.66 {\displaystyle 10^{10^{10^{76.66}}}} Qs: The scale of an estimated Poincaré recurrence time for the quantum state of a hypothetical box containing an isolated black hole of stellar mass [ 22 ...

  4. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    10 −2 s: One hundredth of a second. decisecond: 10 −1 s: One tenth of a second. second: 1 s: SI base unit for time. decasecond: 10 s: Ten seconds (one sixth of a minute) minute: 60 s: hectosecond: 100 s: milliday: 1/1000 d (0.001 d) 1.44 minutes, or 86.4 seconds. Also marketed as a ".beat" by the Swatch corporation. moment: 1/40 solar hour ...

  5. Galactic year - Wikipedia

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    One galactic year is approximately 225 million Earth years. [2] The Solar System is traveling at an average speed of 230 km/s (828,000 km/h) or 143 mi/s (514,000 mph) within its trajectory around the Galactic Center, [ 3 ] a speed at which an object could circumnavigate the Earth's equator in 2 minutes and 54 seconds; that speed corresponds to ...

  6. ‘New generation’ Starship set to push boundaries in highly ...

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    NASA has agreed to pay SpaceX $4.5 billion across two contracts to develop Starship and complete two crewed lunar landings, the first of which is slated to take off as soon as 2027

  7. Millisecond - Wikipedia

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    To help compare orders of magnitude of different times, this page lists times between 10 −3 seconds and 10 0 seconds (1 millisecond and one second).

  8. List of spacewalks and moonwalks 1965–1999 - Wikipedia

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    [5] 3. Gemini 9A: Eugene Cernan Thomas P. Stafford (did not exit) 5 June 1966 15:02:00 5 June 1966 17:09:00 2 h 7 min A complex work EVA was planned for Cernan, which involved him moving to the rear of the Gemini spacecraft and donning the Astronaut propulsion unit, developed by the U.S. Air Force. [6]

  9. This Radio Pulse From Space Lasts Three Seconds ... - AOL

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    The pulse lasts 1,000 times longer than other neutron star signals. Researchers guess it probably originates from the star’s powerful magnetic field.