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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 ]
Millie Elizabeth Hughes was born in Mineral Wells, Texas on December 21, 1945. [3] [1] [2] She graduated from Mineral Wells High School in 1962, [4] then entered college at the age of 16 and earned her Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry and biology from Tarleton State University in 1968. [5]
She was crew support astronaut for the Expedition 6 crew during their six-month mission on the ISS. In July 2006, Nyberg took part in NEEMO 10, a deep-sea training and simulation exercise at the Aquarius underwater laboratory to help NASA prepare for the return of astronauts to the Moon and crewed missions to Mars. Nyberg and her crewmates ...
The time between the first male and first female astronauts varied widely by country. The first astronauts originally from Britain, South Korea, and Iran were women, while there was a two-year gap in Russia from the first man in space on Vostok 1 to the first woman in space on Vostok 6 .
Rya Kihlstedt (born July 23, 1970) is an American actress. [2] She starred in the 1997 comedy film Home Alone 3 as Alice Ribbons. Kihlstedt would go on to appear in the films Deep Impact (1998), Women in Trouble (2009) and The Atticus Institute (2015).
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]
Christina Koch (/ k ʊ k / COOK; née Hammock; born January 29, 1979) is an American engineer and NASA astronaut of the class of 2013. [1] [2] She received Bachelor of Science degrees in electrical engineering and physics and a Master of Science in electrical engineering at North Carolina State University. [3]
Kathy is not just an ivory-tower scientist. She was part of NASA's first class of female astronauts, selected in 1978, and went on to fly three shuttle missions. She is the first American woman to walk in space and served aboard the mission that deployed the Hubble Space Telescope.