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The set was initially proposed by Maia Weinstock as a tribute to the women's contributions to NASA history, and Hamilton's section of the set features a recreation of her famous 1969 photo posing with a stack of her software listings. [71] [72] In 2019, to celebrate 50 years after the Apollo landing, Google decided to make a tribute to Hamilton.
The mission touched down safely, and the crew was reflown with the same mission plan on STS-94. Collision in space 25 June 1997: Mir: At Mir, during a re-docking test with the Progress M-34 cargo freighter, the Progress freighter collided with the Spektr module and solar arrays of the Mir space station. This damaged the solar arrays and the ...
The Apollo program included three other crewed missions: Apollo 1 (AS-204) did not launch and its crew died in a ground-based capsule fire, while Apollo 7 and Apollo 9 were low Earth orbit missions that only tested spacecraft components and docking maneuvers. Apollo missions 18, 19, and 20 were canceled.
So she programmed it to automatically reboot and clean the slate -- effectively making the Apollo 11 mission a success. Not to mention, Hamilton also coined the term 'software engineer.'
Apollo 9 (March 3–13, 1969) was the third human spaceflight in NASA's Apollo program.Flown in low Earth orbit, it was the second crewed Apollo mission that the United States launched via a Saturn V rocket, and was the first flight of the full Apollo spacecraft: the command and service module (CSM) with the Lunar Module (LM).
On December 9, 2020, NASA announced that Stephanie Wilson was among the candidates for the Artemis program, and if selected, she could be both the first woman and the first African-American on the Moon. On January 31, 2024, NASA announced that Wilson would fly as mission specialist on the SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station ...
Apollo 13 was slated to be the third landing on the moon after Apollo 8 (1968) and Apollo 12 (1969). Launched on April 11, 1970, the crew was led by commander Lovell, along with command module ...
Apollo astronaut Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II, known for helping the crew of Apollo 13 safely return to Earth after an explosion doomed their lunar mission, has died at the age of 87, NASA announced.