Kathy Sullivan, the first American woman to go on a spacewalk. (Image credit: NASA) NASA astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan became the first American woman to perform a spacewalk when she floated outside the space shuttle Challenger during mission STS-41-G on Oct. 11, 1984. Sullivan's spacewalk...
space; Judith Resnik was the first Jewish-American astronaut; Kathryn Sullivan was the first American woman to perform a spacewalk; Shannon Lucid was the first American woman to visit the Mir space station; Sullivan and Ride were also the first two female astronauts to fly on a mission ...
On this day in 1965, in the midst of the Cold War, astronaut Ed White struck a blow for the West over Communism, by becoming the first American to walk in space, only a few weeks after his Russian opposite number became the first ever spacewalker.
NASA astronaut Nicole Mann waves as she leaves ahead of the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Crew5 Dragon, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on October 5, 2022. The first Native American woman inspaceventured out on a spacewalk Friday to prep the...
American aerospace manufacturer (制造商) Boeing and France-based Airbus have long dominated the commercial aircraft market. The C919, as part of China’s goal to develop homemade civil planes, is trying to compete with medium-range passenger planes from the two global giants.The C919 narrow-...
Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskayaearnedthe distinction of being the first woman to walk in space in 1984 when she worked outside the Salyut 7 space station. Shortly after Savitskaya’s spacewalk, NASA astronautKathryn Dwyer Sullivanbecame the first American women to perform an extra-vehicular activity ...
Other people may learn English because they enjoy reading books in English, listening to British or American music or watching American films. English has changed a lot over the years and still goes on changing. It is no longer right to talk about British English or American English if the ...
Wang Yaping has become the first female taikonaut (中国宇航员)who works on China Space Station and the first Chinese woman (perform) a spacewalk. As a member of the Shenzhou 10 spaceship crew in June 2013, she conducted (science ) experiments and delivered a live physics lecture schoolchildren...
“We appreciate it. We’re gonna get to work now.” [Related: SpaceX will attempt the first commercial spacewalk.]Crew Dragon’s starting elliptical orbit included an apogee of roughly 745 miles and perigee of around 118 miles above Earth. The capsule will then travel to its highest orbital...
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