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First photographs of another planet from deep space . USA (NASA) Mariner 4: 15 December 1965: First orbital rendezvous (parallel flight, no docking). USA (NASA) Gemini 6A/Gemini 7: 3 February 1966: First soft landing on another world (the Moon). First photos from another world. USSR Luna 9: 1 March 1966: First impact into another planet (Venus ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Lucy spacecraft is the centerpiece of a US$981 million mission. [7] It was launched on 16 October 2021. On 4 January 2017, Lucy was chosen, along with the Psyche mission, as NASA's Discovery Program missions 13 and 14 respectively. [6] [8]
Engineers cleaning a test mirror with carbon dioxide snow, 2015 Main mirror assembly from the front with primary mirrors attached, November 2016 Diffraction spikes due to mirror segments and spider color-coded. Webb's primary mirror is a 6.5 m (21 ft)-diameter gold-coated beryllium reflector with a collecting area of 25.4 m 2 (273 sq ft). If it ...
Header of the Discovery Program website (January 2016) Depictions of the Lucy and Psyche missions 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.
Academy Awards. 92nd →. The 91st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2018 and took place on February 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories.
Falcon 9 2016 1A 23 December 2018 NROL-71 ... 2019 1 13 November 2020 NROL-44 Delta IV Heavy ... Falcon 9 2019 1A 17 April 2022 USSF-12