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August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 143 days remain until the end of the year. Events [ edit ] Pre-1600 [ edit ]
linkspace.com.cn. LinkSpace [1] ( Chinese: 翎客航天 [2] [3]; pinyin: Líng-kè Hángtiān; lit. 'LINK Aerospace') or Link Space Aerospace Technology Inc. is a Chinese private space launch company based in Beijing. It is led by CEO Hu Zhenyu, [4] and founded as the first private rocket firm in China. [5] The company was founded in 2014, by ...
The Chinese probe Chang'e 4made humanity's first soft landing on the far side of the Moonon 3 January and released its Yutu 2rover to explore the lunar surface on the far side for the first time in human history. The first panorama from the far side of the Moon, captured by Chang'e 4lander. Israel's SpaceIL, one of the participants in the ...
Margaret Elaine Hamilton ( née Heafield; born August 17, 1936) is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA 's Apollo program. She later founded two software companies ...
List of NASA missions. Comparison of NASA Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle spacecraft with their launch vehicles. This is a list of NASA missions, both crewed and robotic, since the establishment of NASA in 1957. There are over 80 currently active science missions. [1]
Creola Katherine Johnson ( née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020) was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. [1] [2] During her 33-year career at NASA and its predecessor, she earned a reputation for ...
Ad Astra is a 2019 American psychological science fiction film produced, co-written, and directed by James Gray.Starring Brad Pitt (who also produced), Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Liv Tyler, and Donald Sutherland, it follows an astronaut who ventures into space in search of his lost father, whose obsessive quest to discover intelligent alien life at all costs threatens the Solar System and ...
Asteroid Eros regolith, as viewed by Discovery's NEAR Shoemaker mission. The Discovery Program is a series of Solar System exploration missions funded by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) through its Planetary Missions Program Office. The cost of each mission is capped at a lower level than missions from NASA's New ...