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August 20, 1977 - Voyager 2 launched towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. August 23, 1963 - Joseph A. Walker, on X-15 Flight 91, becomes first person to fly into space twice. August 27, 1962 - Mariner 2 launched toward 1st Venus Flyby; August 30, 1983 - On Space Shuttle flight STS-8, Guion Bluford becomes the first African-American in ...
15 October 1997 – The Cassini space probe launches and is active in space for nearly 20 years; 15 October 2003 – The People's Republic of China becomes the third nation to send a human into space when Yang Liwei is launched into outer space aboard Shenzhou 5; 24 October 1946 – First motion pictures of Earth are taken from a V-2 rocket
The 17th-anniversary celebration featured a panorama of part of the Carina Nebula, and a collection of images selected from that area. [4]In its 17 years of exploring the heavens, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made nearly 800,000 observations and snapped nearly 500,000 images of more than 25,000 celestial objects.
Even though PHP's urlencode() automatically percent-encodes them, these characters do not get URL-encoded by wfUrlencode(). The ":" symbol is a partial exception – it is not encoded anywhere except for IIS 7.0.
Yuri's Night, also known as "World Space Party" is an international observance initiated in the United States in 2001, on the 40th anniversary of Gagarin's flight. Also commemorated on this date is the first Space Shuttle launch, STS-1 of Columbia on 12 April 1981, exactly 20 years after the first human spaceflight.
In the U.S., the biggest polluters are often concentrated in underserved, mostly minority communities.
Average CEO Pay is calculated using the last year a director sat on the board of each company. Stock returns do not include dividends. All directors refers to people who sat on the board of at least one Fortune 100 company between 2008 and 2012. The Pay Pals project relies on financial research conducted by the Center for Economic Policy and ...
A photo taken during the Apollo 11 50th anniversary show of the Apollo 11 rocket projected on the Washington Monument in Washington, DC on July 20, 2019 As part of the festival was a projection of the 363-foot (111 m) tall Saturn V rocket on the east face of the 555-foot (169 m) tall Washington Monument from July 16 through the 20th from 9:30 ...