On planet, fighters are needed to extend the range of whatever deploys them (an airforce base or a carrier). If the base were to shoot the guns or the missiles that a fighter carries directly, it wouldn't have nearly the range that a fighter can achieve. The horizon on planet ...
NASA, the latest news from the US space agency NASA's famous emblem. (Image credit: NASA) NASA is the space agency run by the United States to oversee American space exploration, research and technology. NASA, or the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was founded in 1958 as a...
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2.2 Mo image In April 2001 NASA launched the Mars Odyssey spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The spacecraft was equipped with an on-board camera called the thermal emission imaging system visible camera (THEMIS-VIS) that was designed ...
1: A pack of X-30 NASP propaganda. Seven double-sided 8X10 glossies, a double-sided poster, a bumper sticker and an emblem sticker. 2: “Non-Planing Seaplane Study” by Convair, 196. Two presentations; The $4 and up subscribers get not only the cleaned-up report, but the original ...
The next batch of “taikonauts,” coined from the Chinese word for space, to board the station, in 2023, will be picked from the third generation of astronauts with scientific backgrounds. The first and second batches of ast...
Theemblem's other elements fell into place more easily. The white and red starswere adapted from Gagnon's first proposal to the crew. "Orionon the patch is showing our future, where we are going next. There is a redstar representing Mars," stated Boe. The rising sunwas at the suggestio...
The 398 unauthorized covers (initially 400 but two destroyed) are lightweight onion skin envelopes carrying as a cachet, a replica of the official Apollo 15 patch overprinted with an Air Force wing and propeller emblem. They were part of a large order of covers paid for by a privately emplo...
In this context, techno-science has been framed through Marxist discourse as “the primary productive force”, a perspective that has been consistently highlighted by the government through its emphasis on the contribution of science and technology to economic development (Hughes 2006, 23–30; ...
However, it is the Apollo 15 flight crew who decided to play the Air Force (Fight) song during the most critical moment of their mission plan – ascent from the lunar surface – and didn’t care that it interfered with any critical flight communications from Earth. Given the Apollo 15 ...