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December 1 – The Treaty of Lisbon comes into force. [77] December 5 – Fire at the Lame Horse nightclub in Perm, Russia. December 7–18 – The UNFCCC's 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Copenhagen, Denmark. [78] December 8 – A series of attacks in Baghdad, Iraq kill at least 127 people and injure at least 448 more ...
21 December 12:51 Saturn V (C-5) LC-39A, Kennedy: NASA: Apollo 8: NASA: Selenocentric: Crewed lunar orbiter: 27 December 1968 15:51:42: Successful LTA B NASA Selenocentric Mass Model: In orbit: Successful First crewed mission to the Moon: 26 December 09:45 Kosmos-2 Kapustin Yar Site 86/1 Kosmos 262 (DS-U2-GF #1) Low Earth Orbit Solar research ...
In 2004, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe canceled a planned servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope and decided that future missions would all rendezvous with the ISS to ensure the safety of the crew. [60] In 2006, his successor, Michael Griffin, decided to have one more servicing mission to the telescope, STS-125, which flew in May 2009.
22 December 18:54 8 hours 15 minutes 23 December 03:09 STS-103 Discovery: Steven Smith John M. Grunsfeld: Replaced three Rate Sensor Units, installed Voltage/Temperature Improvement Kits on all six batteries. [11] Hubble Space Telescope servicing 23 December 19:06 8 hours 10 minutes 24 December 03:16 STS-103 Discovery / Michael Foale Claude ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hernández was born in French Camp, California, [7] but calls Stockton, California, his hometown.His family is originally from La Piedad, Michoacán, Mexico. [8] [9] In an August 25, 2009 conversation with President Felipe Calderón of Mexico, Hernández stated that as a child, he lived half the year in La Piedad and half in the United States. [9]
Space Shuttle Endeavour (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-105) is a retired orbiter from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the fifth and final operational Shuttle built. It embarked on its first mission, STS-49, in May 1992 and its 25th and final mission, STS-134, in May 2011.