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On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968, the crew of Apollo 8, the first humans to travel to the Moon, read from the Book of Genesis during a television broadcast. During their ninth orbit of the Moon astronauts Bill Anders, Jim Lovell, and Frank Borman recited verses 1 through 10 of the Genesis creation narrative from the King James Bible. [1]
Second shuttle mission: Paul Hawkins (CDR) Tom Young (PLT) Lisa Morrell (Mission Specialist) Nick Carter [Nicholas J. Huntington Carter] (impersonating Richard Chappell, Lt. Col., USAF) (Payload Specialist) Salyut: Sergei (no last name given) Unnamed cosmonaut Nick Carter-Killmaster Death Orbit (1986), novel Space Shuttle Two shuttle missions
Boudreau is a veteran of early shuttle missions in the 1980s. Bonds flew five previous shuttle missions. [43] Two unnamed astronauts Curious George Curious George's Rocket Ride (2006), TV Curious George Discovers Space (2015), picture book [i] International Space Station: Contemporary Curious George brings supplies to astronauts on ISS. [44 ...
The Survivors from Outer Space (1995), TV Space Shuttle (Uxus Mission) Contemporary/Near Future Future (c. 2700) Space shuttle returns to Earth after 700 years in space with crew in hibernation. Emerson is an Immortal. [23] James Monroe The Monroes (1995), TV Space Shuttle: Contemporary Former astronaut, member of powerful Kennedy-like family ...
Astronauts crewing the replacement for the Space Shuttle. Killed when the vehicle explodes during launch. [73] Buzz Caldwell Charlie Numbers and the Man in the Moon (2017), novel Space Shuttle: c. 2017 (late January) Original Space Shuttle astronaut who flew in space six times runs aerospace company that sponsors paper airplane contest. [74]
Longest Space Shuttle mission flown; Story Musgrave becomes the only astronaut to fly on all five Space Shuttle orbiters [186] [187] 81 12 January 1997 09:27:23 UTC 04:27:23 EST STS-81: Atlantis: 6/6 10d 04h LC-39B: Kennedy SLF: Shuttle-Mir docking [188] [189] 82 11 February 1997 08:55:17 UTC 03:55:17 EST STS-82: Discovery: 7 09d 23h LC-39A ...
The astronauts have separated from the station; now, with the Apollo main engine inoperative, they have insufficient fuel to return to the station. Pruett's friend, now named Ted Dougherty, plans a rescue mission using an experimental X-RV lifting body spacecraft, an early study for the Space Shuttle orbiter.
Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet is a children's literature book by science writer June A. English and astronaut Thomas David Jones that was published in 1996 by Scholastic. Jones was among the crew members of the Space Shuttle Endeavour during an eleven-day mission in space , which was launched in April 1994 to study the ecological ...