When did the space shuttle program end?The American Space Shuttle ProgramDeveloped by NASA the space shuttle was originally intended to carry out regular missions to an international space station with the potential of multiple launches per month. Due to delays in constructing the space station ...
NASA urges Congress to speed new spacecraft Chief says U.S. needs to have one ready when shuttle retiresMARCIA DUNN
In 1961, both nations were able to achieve this, but with varying levels of success. The first person to orbit Earth in a spacecraft was Yuri Gagarin in April 1961. TheUnited Statescarried out its own space launch the following month, although astronaut Alan Shepard did not reach orbit. Th...
Rummel’s “why question” had no clear answer, but investigators did discover how a delusion can masquerade as a certainty: debating. In hours of sworn testimony before slack-jawed investigators, engineers and NASA officials recounted the process by which evidence-based reasoning was set aside in...
When did astrophysics start? When was the Newtonian telescope invented? When did Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars? When was the catadioptric telescope invented? When was the space shuttle invented? When did the Hubble Space Telescope get into the solar system?
When did NASA desegregate? Integration came to the nation's space agency inthe mid-1960s. On May 13, 1961, in its first issue after Alan Shepard's historic Mercury mission, the nation's leading black newspaper, the New York Amsterdam News, ran a front-page column that asked a question ...
Where did SpaceX launch Inspiration4 from? The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon that will launch the private orbital spaceflight dubbed Inspiration4, as seen during launch preparations.(Image credit: SpaceX) The launch took place from NASA's historic Launch Complex 39A atKennedy Space Cen...
Page 6 of 12 - How and when did you get interested in astronomy? - posted in Beginners Forum (No Astrophotography): I received a 60mm refractor for Christmas when I was 8 years old. That set off my life long interest in Astronomy and the sciences. That
We don’t experience time moving at different rates or being position dependent, so when we start talking about messed up spacetime it’s useful to look at things from more than one point of view. From an outsider’s perspective (far from the blackhole): As someone falls in they will mov...
did. I did not. But as I’ve changed my mind, I realize others can too. And having that attitude of saying, okay, hold it, We’re not going to do the finger pointing here, like in the office case or like your father did in the situation. Say, OK, hold it. We’ll deal with...