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  2. Space Shuttle Project - Wikipedia

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    The object of Space Shuttle Project is to successfully launch and fly one of NASA's historic Space Shuttles as a shuttle commander. Gameplay is composed of several different types of missions, each broken up into short mini-games. [2] Players are first required to activate oxygen and hydrogen pumps in addition to getting additional crew members ...

  3. Kopernik Observatory & Science Center - Wikipedia

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    The envisioned expansion would add a third equatorial room with a large telescopes, four classrooms, a space science theater, and laser physics and computer-imaging laboratories. [4] Construction of the Center began in the Fall of 1992, Kenneth R. Gay II was the Architect, [ 5 ] and the 8,000-square-foot (740 m 2 ) facility addition opened in ...

  4. Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 3 - Wikipedia

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    Copernicus or OAO-3 (Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 3), also mentioned as Orbiting Astronomical Observatory-C, [1] [2] was a space telescope intended for ultraviolet and X-ray observation. After its launch, it was named Copernicus to mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of Nicolaus Copernicus in 1473.

  5. Orbiting Astronomical Observatory - Wikipedia

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    The first Orbiting Astronomical Observatory was launched successfully on 8 April 1966, carrying instruments to detect ultraviolet, X-ray and gamma ray emission. [2] Before the instruments could be activated, a power failure resulted in the termination of the mission after three days.

  6. Discovery and exploration of the Solar System - Wikipedia

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    Finally, Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus developed in full a system called Copernican heliocentrism, in which the planets and the Earth orbit the Sun, and the Moon orbits the Earth. Though the by-then-late Copernicus' theory was known to Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, he did not accept it, and proposed his own geoheliocentric Tychonic ...

  7. The space shuttle was revolutionary for its time. What went ...

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    The shuttle program was marked by triumphs and failures, including the 2003 Columbia disaster. The tragedies left a lasting mark on the perception of risks in space. The space shuttle was ...

  8. Copernicus (lunar crater) - Wikipedia

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    Copernicus is a lunar impact crater located in eastern Oceanus Procellarum. It was named after the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. [1] It typifies craters that formed during the Copernican period in that it has a prominent ray system. It may have been created by debris from the breakup of the parent body of asteroid 495 Eulalia 800 million ...

  9. Copernicus Programme - Wikipedia

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    Copernicus is the Earth observation component of the European Union Space Programme, managed by the European Commission and implemented in partnership with the EU member states, the European Space Agency (ESA), the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), the Joint Research Centre (JRC ...