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An Explorer mission observes Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's central black hole, flaring. The Explorers program[1] is a NASA exploration program that provides flight opportunities for physics, geophysics, heliophysics, and astrophysics investigations from space. Launched in 1958, Explorer 1 was the first spacecraft of the United States to ...
On December 10, 2009, Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK) test-fired their Castor 30 motor for use on the second stage of the Antares rocket. [18] In March 2010, Orbital Sciences and Aerojet completed test firings of the AJ-26 engines.
Apollo 18 (canceled) →. Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the eleventh and final mission of NASA 's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon or traveled beyond low Earth orbit. Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans ...
Mission ended on 18 April 2014, when the spacecraft's controllers intentionally crashed LADEE into the far side of the Moon. 118: Chang'e 3: Chang'e 3: 1 December 2013: Long March 3B: CNSA: Lander: Operational Yutu: 1 December 2013: Long March 3B: CNSA: Rover: Success Entered orbit on 6 December 2013 with landing at 13:12 UTC on 14 December.
Buzz Aldrin (/ ˈ ɔː l d r ɪ n /; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot.He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and was the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission.
On December 12, 2023, NASA announced that Voyager 1 's flight data system was unable to use its telemetry modulation unit, preventing it from transmitting scientific data. [96] On March 24, 2024, NASA announced that they had made significant progress on interpreting the data being received from the spacecraft. [ 97 ]
Wernher von Braun was born on 23 March 1912, in the small town of Wirsitz in the Province of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia, then German Empire and now Poland. [13]His father, Magnus Freiherr von Braun (1878–1972), was a civil servant and conservative politician; he served as Minister of Agriculture in the federal government during the Weimar Republic.
Space tourism is human space travel for recreational purposes. [1] There are several different types of space tourism, including orbital, suborbital and lunar space tourism. . Tourists are motivated by the possibility of viewing Earth from space, feeling weightlessness, experiencing extremely high speed and something unusual, and contributing to scie