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NASA brought the Orion spacecraft back to life from the defunct Constellation program and successfully test-launched the first capsule on December 5, 2014, aboard EFT-1. After a near-perfect flight traveling 3,600 miles (5,800 km) above Earth, the spacecraft was recovered for study.
[6]: 592 [97] In 2009, Allan McDonald published his memoir written with space historian James Hansen, Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, which focuses on his personal involvement in the launch, disaster, investigation, and return to flight, and is critical of NASA and Morton Thiokol leadership for agreeing ...
Forrester took a leave of absence to pursue a personal opportunity outside of NASA. 17 Gregory R. Wiseman (1975-) 2009 NASA Group 20: December 20, 2020: February 2, 2023 Andrew Feustel: Stepped down to return to flight rotation, November, 2022. Feustel acted as an acting chief between November 2022 to February 2023. 18 Joseph M. Acaba (1967 ...
2009 July 22 at 04:18:53.3 UTC ... December 14–15 October 2–3 116 118 ... NASA homepage for July 22, 2009 total solar eclipse;
Events from the year 2009 in the United States.. The inauguration of Barack Obama as the president, occurred on January 20.The nation, still recovering from the Great Recession, received various economic stimuli through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and similar legislation, which most notably gave Americans tax credits.
The winter of 2009–10 in the United Kingdom (also called The Big Freeze of 2010 by British media) was a meteorological event that started on 16 December 2009, as part of the severe winter weather in Europe. January 2010 was provisionally the coldest January since 1987 in the UK. [1]
On May 7, 2009, the Obama administration enlisted the Augustine Commission to perform a full independent review of the ongoing NASA space exploration program. The commission found the then-current Constellation Program to be woefully under-budgeted with significant cost overruns, behind schedule by four years or more in several essential ...
The project was announced in the fiscal 2009 budget year. ... 29 December: Perihelion #18: 2024 30 March: ... NASA animation of the Probe passing through the Sun's ...