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Janice E. Voss, astronaut and engineer; lived in Rockford [1] Daniel Hale Williams , surgeon, first doctor to successfully complete open heart surgery ; [ 2 ] founder of the first integrated American hospital, Provident Hospital of Cook County [ 3 ]
Billionaire Spaceflight Launch Date Arrival Date Notes Dennis Tito: Space Adventures / MirCorp ISS EP-1 (Soyuz TM-32/TM-31) 28 April 2001: 6 May 2001: First billionaire in space, orbital space; first space tourist to the International Space Station [3] [1] [4] Mark Shuttleworth: Space Adventures ISS EP-3 (Soyuz TM-34/TM-33) 25 April 2002: 2 May ...
Family members paid tribute on Thursday to Hamish Harding, the British billionaire, aviation tycoon, and explorer who is among the five people who died on a failed submarine expedition last week ...
On Thursday morning, two crew members of SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission will attempt the first ever privately-funded spacewalk.. Billionaire Jared Isaacman and SpaceX employee Sarah Gillis plan ...
Richard Allen Garriott de Cayeux (né Garriott; born 4 July 1961) is a British-born American video game developer, entrepreneur and private astronaut.. Garriott, who is the son of NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, was originally a game designer and programmer, and is now involved in a number of aspects of computer-game development.
Jeff Kolkey, Rockford Register Star March 25, 2024 at 5:50 PM A 28-year-old Illinois man may have unsuccessfully sought mental health treatment before police say he stabbed and killed a Northridge ...
WTVO (channel 17) is a television station in Rockford, Illinois, United States, affiliated with ABC and MyNetworkTV.It is owned by Mission Broadcasting, which maintains joint sales and shared services agreements (JSA/SSA) with Nexstar Media Group, owner of Fox affiliate WQRF-TV (channel 39), for the provision of certain services.
Ronald Wayne Burkle (born November 12, 1952) is an American businessman. He is the co-founder and managing partner of The Yucaipa Companies, LLC, a private investment firm that specializes in U.S. companies in the distribution, logistics, food, retail, consumer, hospitality, entertainment, sports, and light industrial sectors.