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Stanley Greenlaw reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Rendezvous is educational while being entertaining. Teachers will find it a valuable teaching tool in the areas of General Science, Earth Science, and Physics.
Humans have achieved some mediated presence throughout the Solar System, but the most extensive presence has been in orbit around Earth. Humans reached outer space mediated in 1944 and have sustained mediated presence since 1958 , [a] as well as having reached space directly for the first time on 12 April 1961 (Yuri Gagarin) and continuously ...
The game received a 90/100 score from PC Gamer UK, [32] was a finalist for the COMPUTE! Choice Awards in 1993. [33] In 1994, PC Gamer UK named Race Into Space the 26th best computer game of all time. The editors called it "the most successful piece of 'educational' software available for the PC". [34]
The pioneering astronauts of the Polaris Dawn mission have a packed agenda during their five short days in space, but medical officer Anna Menon still found time to read to her children from orbit.
SpaceKids is an entertainment and educational game for children. [1] In this interactive cartoon, Zeedle and Deet are Kids who travel to Earth in a living UFO to find their famous missing grandfather, a space explorer who has traveled to Earth without them.
Fram2 is a planned private human spaceflight mission, operated by SpaceX on behalf of entrepreneur Chun Wang.During the mission, the 16th crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, Wang and his all-civilian crew — Jannicke Mikkelsen, Eric Philips and Rabea Rogge — will be propelled into a polar orbit, a first for a human spaceflight mission.
People in orbit 19 weeks (4 months) Vladimir Kovalyonok, Aleksandr Ivanchenkov: Salyut 6 EO-2, Soyuz 29-Soyuz 31: USSR 15 June 1978 – 2 November 1978 People in orbit 26 weeks (6 months) Leonid Popov, Valery Ryumin: Salyut 6 EO-4, Soyuz 35-Soyuz 37: USSR 9 April 1980 – 11 October 1980 Spaceflight (orbital) by winged spacecraft
In September 2016, Tiangong 2 was launched into the orbit. It was a space laboratory with more advanced functions and equipment than Tiangong 1. A month later, Shenzhou 11 was launched and docked with Tiangong 2. Two astronauts entered Tiangong 2 and stationed for about 30 days and verified the viability of astronauts' medium-term stay in space ...