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On February 20, 1947, the United States sent a V-2 rocket containing fruit flies into space to study the effects of radiation on living organisms and to see if the radiation from space would be a potential problem for future astronauts. [6] The flight was launched from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico and lasted a total of three minutes.
The Space Foundation, in conjunction with the Astronauts Memorial Foundation (AMF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), annually presents the Alan Shepard Technology in Education Award to recognize outstanding contributions to creative and innovative use of technology in education by K-12 educators or district-level ...
Messick Hall at ETS headquarters. Lord Hall at ETS headquarters. Educational Testing Service ( ETS ), founded in 1947, is the world's largest private educational testing and assessment organization. [3] It is headquartered in Lawrence Township, New Jersey, but has a Princeton address. ETS develops various standardized tests primarily in the ...
The Approach and Landing Tests were a series of sixteen taxi and flight trials of the prototype Space Shuttle Enterprise that took place between February and October 1977 to test the vehicle's flight characteristics. Of the sixteen taxi-tests and flights, eleven saw Enterprise remain mated to the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), while the final ...
Scientific career. Fields. Astrophysics. Institutions. University of the Philippines Los Baños. Department of Science and Technology. Ateneo de Davao University. Regulus SpaceTech Inc. Rogel Mari D. Sese is a Filipino astrophysicist who is known for being a proponent of space science in the Philippines.
Philadelphia, commonly referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia is the nation's sixth-most populous city, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census and is the urban core of the larger Delaware Valley (or Philadelphia metropolitan area), the nation's seventh-largest and one of the world's largest metropolitan regions consisting of ...