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The U.S. Space & Rocket Center is owned by the State of Alabama and operated by the Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission (ASSEC), whose 18 members are appointed by the Governor for terms of four or eight years. [66] The composition and authority of the board are set forth in Title 41, Article 15 of the Code of Alabama. [67]
Online shopping began to emerge with the launch of Amazon's shopping site by Jeff Bezos in 1995 and eBay by Pierre Omidyar the same year. By 1994, Marc Andreessen's Netscape Navigator superseded Mosaic in popularity, holding the position for some time. Bill Gates outlined Microsoft's strategy to dominate the Internet in his Tidal Wave memo in ...
Houston County is located in Alabama's 2nd congressional district; its current Representative (as of 2021) is Barry Moore (R). Houston County is reliably Republican at the presidential level. The last Democrat to win the county in a presidential election was Adlai Stevenson , who won it by a majority in 1956 .
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The HEAO spacecraft concept originated in the late 1960s, but funding did not become available for some time. Using Atlas-Centaur launch vehicles, three highly successful missions were flown: HEAO 1 in August 1977, HEAO 2 (also called the Einstein Observatory) in November 1978, and HEAO 3 in September 1979. Fred A. Speer was the HEAO project ...
SpaceX is set to launch the U.S. Space Force's GPS III Space Vehicle 04 today from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The launch today will use a Falcon 9 first-stage that hasn't flown ...
The launch will use the company’s Falcon 9 rocket; the first-stage booster that will be used previously launched the Crew-1, Crew-2, SXM-8, CRS-23, IXPE, Transporter-4, Transporter-5, Globalstar ...
In 1820, Alabama had 29 counties. By 1830 there were 36 and Native Americans still occupied large areas of land in northeast and far western Alabama. By 1840, 49 counties had been created; 52 by 1850; 65 by 1870; and the present 67 counties by 1903. [6] Houston County was the last county created in the state, on February 9, 1903. [3]