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December 18 is the 352nd day ... 1999 – NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying ... American guitarist and educator (d. 2009) 1908 – Celia Johnson ...
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;
April 4, 2009 00:31 Atlas V 421 CCAFS SLC-41: WGS-2: 5,987 kg GTO: USAF: Success [40] Second Wideband Global SATCOM military communications satellite. AV-020 June 18, 2009, 17:32 Atlas V 401 CCAFS SLC-41: LRO/LCROSS: TLI: Success [41] NASA Lunar imager and spectroscopy spacecraft; Centaur upper stage was used as a lunar impactor to provide data ...
NASA announces that the new name for the "Space Infrared Telescope Facility" will be the Spitzer Space Telescope (after the late Dr. Lyman Spitzer, Jr.).This coincides with the release of the telescope's first images, which show the glowing stars of the Elephant's Trunk nebula, the dusty arms of the Messier 81 spiral galaxy, a disc of planet-forming debris, and organic material 3.25 billion ...
A partial lunar eclipse was visible on 31 December 2009. It was the last and largest of four minor lunar eclipses in 2009. This lunar eclipse was also notable, because it occurred during a blue moon (a second full moon in December) and was near perigee (making it a supermoon).
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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.
On December 18, 2020, he was promoted to Chief of the Astronaut Office at NASA. In December, 2022. Wiseman stepped down from this position and was replaced by his deputy, Drew Feustel who became acting chief until Joseph Acaba assumed the role as Chief in February, 2023.