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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 ...
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 ]
Chandrayaan-3 ( / ˌtʃʌndrəˈjɑːn / CHUN-drə-YAHN) is the third mission in the Chandrayaan programme, a series of lunar-exploration missions developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). [10] The mission consists of a Vikram lunar lander and a Pragyan lunar rover similar to those launched aboard Chandrayaan-2 in 2019, as ...
Spitzer Space Telescope, launched August 2003, completed; James Webb Space Telescope, launched December 2021, operational; High Energy Astronomy Observatory program; High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 (HEAO 1), launched August 1977, completed; Einstein Observatory (HEAO 2) launched November 1978, completed – first fully imaging X-ray telescope
List of Apollo missions. The Apollo program was a United States human spaceflight program carried out from 1961 to 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [1] The program used the Saturn IB and Saturn V launch vehicles to lift the Command/Service Module (CSM) and Lunar ...
While the United States Space Force gained its independence on 20 December 2019, the history of the United States Space Force can be traced back to the beginnings of the military space program following the conclusion of the Second World War in 1945. Early military space development was begun within the United States Army Air Forces by General ...
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 ...
A new National Space Policy was released on August 31, 2006, that established overarching national policy that governs the conduct of U.S. space activities. The document, the first full revision of overall space policy in 10 years, emphasized security issues, encouraged private enterprise in space, and characterized the role of U.S. space ...