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McCool Hill is the tallest of the Columbia Hills in Gusev crater, Mars. [1]

14 relations: Astronaut, Atmospheric entry, Columbia Hills (Mars), Geography of Mars, Gusev (Martian crater), Hermann Oberth, Home Plate (Mars), Husband Hill, Mars, Sergei Korolev, Space Shuttle Columbia, Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, Spirit (rover), William C. McCool.

Astronaut

An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.

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Atmospheric entry

Atmospheric entry is the movement of an object from outer space into and through the gases of an atmosphere of a planet, dwarf planet or natural satellite.

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Columbia Hills (Mars)

The Columbia Hills are a range of low hills inside Gusev crater on Mars.

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Geography of Mars

The geography of Mars, also known as areography, entails the delineation and characterization of regions on Mars.

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Gusev (Martian crater)

Gusev is a crater on the planet Mars and is located at and is in the Aeolis quadrangle.

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Hermann Oberth

Hermann Julius Oberth (25 June 1894 – 28 December 1989) was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and engineer.

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Home Plate (Mars)

Home Plate is a plateau roughly 90 m across within the Columbia Hills, Mars.

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Husband Hill

Husband Hill is one of the Columbia Hills in Gusev crater, Mars, which are close to the landing site of NASA's ''Spirit'' rover.

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Mars

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System after Mercury.

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Sergei Korolev

Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (a,, also transliterated as Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov, Сергій Павлович Корольов Serhiy Pavlovych Korolyov; – 14 January 1966) worked as the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Space Shuttle Columbia

Space Shuttle Columbia (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-102) was the first space-rated orbiter in NASA's Space Shuttle fleet.

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Space Shuttle Columbia disaster

On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' disintegrated upon reentering Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven crew members.

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Spirit (rover)

Spirit, also known as MER-A (Mars Exploration Rover – A) or MER-2, is a robotic rover on Mars, active from 2004 to 2010.

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William C. McCool

William Cameron "Willie" McCool (September 23, 1961 – February 1, 2003), (Cmdr, USN), was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut, who was the pilot of Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' mission STS-107.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCool_Hill

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