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The Virginia Spaceport Authority, [1] formally better known as Virginia Space, is a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia focused on bringing commercial spaceflight to Virginia and providing education in aerospace technologies across the Commonwealth. Created in 1995 as the Virginia Commercial ...
Katherine Johnson Johnson in 1983 Born Creola Katherine Coleman (1918-08-26) August 26, 1918 White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, U.S. Died February 24, 2020 (2020-02-24) (aged 101) Newport News, Virginia, U.S. Other names Katherine Goble Education West Virginia State University (BS) Occupation Mathematician Employers NACA NASA (1953–1986) Known for Calculating trajectories for NASA ...
History. The college was first conceived by local residents who petitioned the University of Virginia to establish a college in Wise. As support for a college grew, the Commonwealth of Virginia appropriated $5,000 to open, staff, and operate the college as a two-year junior college on a trial basis for a year; and if successful, another $5,000 would be available for a second year.
The Institute for Space and Defense Electronics (ISDE) is a research facility at Vanderbilt University, a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee. The ISDE is housed in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and it is the largest such academic facility in the world.
Boeing Defense, Space & Security. Boeing Defense, Space & Security ( BDS) is a division of The Boeing Company based in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington, D.C. The division builds military airplanes, rotorcraft, and missiles, as well as space systems for both commercial and military customers, including satellites, spacecraft, and rockets .
'Space tourist' blasts off to ISS – BBC, 1 October 2005 'Space tourist' arrives at Space Station – BBC, 3 October 2005; Trek to Space Station Is 'A Dream Come True' Spacefacts biography of Gregory Olsen; Pictures and narrative of the Soyuz TMA-7 launch; Human Presence in Space International Forum Archived 2019-12-14 at the Wayback Machine
Theodore Colbert III. Theodore Colbert III ( / ˈkoʊlˈbərt / kohl-bərt; [2] born 1973) is a businessman, engineer, and the current Chief Executive Officer for Boeing Defense, Space & Security, a subdivision at The Boeing Company. He has served in the position since March 2022. Previously, he served as the CEO of Boeing Global Services, and ...
Java is a high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language that is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is a general-purpose programming language intended to let programmers write once, run anywhere ( WORA ), [16] meaning that compiled Java code can run on all platforms that support Java without the ...