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Al Calavicci
Rear Admiral Upper Half Albert "Al" Calavicci, USN, is a fictional character on the science fiction television series Quantum Leap, played by Dean Stockwell.
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Alexey Leonov
Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov (p; born 30 May 1934 in Listvyanka, West Siberian Krai, Soviet Union) is a retired Soviet/Russian cosmonaut, Air Force Major general, writer and artist.
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Amici (crater)
Amici is a lunar impact crater that is located on the rugged far side of the Moon.
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Anders (crater)
Anders is a worn lunar impact crater that is located in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon.
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Andrew Chaikin
Andrew L. Chaikin (born June 24, 1956) is an American author, speaker and science journalist.
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Anti-atheism
Anti-atheism is the condition of being opposed to atheism.
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Apogee Books
Apogee Books is an imprint of Canadian publishing house Collector's Guide Publishing.
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Apollo (crater)
Apollo is an enormous impact crater located in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon.
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Apollo 10
Apollo 10 was the fourth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program, and the second (after Apollo 8) to orbit the Moon.
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Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon.
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Apollo 13 (film)
Apollo 13 is a 1995 American space docudrama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, and Ed Harris.
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Apollo 15 operations on the Lunar surface
Apollo 15 lunar surface operations were conducted from July 30 to August 2, 1971, by Apollo 15 Commander David Scott and lunar module Pilot James Irwin, who used the first lunar rover to make three exploratory trips away from their landing site at the base of the Apennine Mountains, near Hadley Rille.
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Apollo 6
Apollo 6 (also known as AS-502), launched on April 4, 1968, was the second A type mission of the United States Apollo program, an unmanned test of the Saturn V launch vehicle.
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Apollo 7
Apollo 7 was an October 1968 human spaceflight mission carried out by the United States.
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Apollo 8 Genesis reading
On December 24, 1968, in what was the most watched television broadcast at the time, the crew of Apollo 8 read in turn from the Book of Genesis as they orbited the Moon.
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Apollo 9
Apollo 9 was the third manned mission in the United States Apollo space program and the first flight of the Command/Service Module (CSM) with the Lunar Module (LM, pronounced "lem").
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Apollo Command/Service Module
The Command/Service Module (CSM) was one of the two United States '''Apollo''' spacecraft, used for the Apollo program which landed astronauts on the Moon between 1969 and 1972.
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Apollo Guidance Computer
The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was a digital computer produced for the Apollo program that was installed on board each Apollo Command Module (CM) and Lunar Module (LM).
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Apollo program
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972.
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Apollo TV camera
The Apollo TV Camera refers to several television cameras used in the Apollo program's space missions, and on the later Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz Test Project missions, in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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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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Astronaut birthplaces by US state
This article lists the birthplaces of astronauts from the United States' space program and other space travelers born in the United States or holding American citizenship.
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Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild
Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild is a three-part BBC documentary series chronicling the 60 years career making wildlife programmes of Sir David Attenborough.
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AVCOAT
AVCOAT 5026-39 is a NASA code for a specific ablative heat shield material created by Avco (acquired by Textron in 1984).
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Aviation Cadet Training Program (USN)
The US Navy had four programs (NavCad, NAP, AVMIDN, and MarCad) for the training of naval aviators.
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Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal
Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal is an England-based sculptor of Indian origin.
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B612 Foundation
The B612 Foundation is a private nonprofit foundation headquartered in Mill Valley, California, United States, dedicated to planetary defense against asteroids and other near-Earth object (NEO) impacts.
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Benefits of space exploration
Space is a high-tech arena where rival ideologies clashed, showcasing their technological prowess under the watchful eyes of the entire globe.
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Big History
Big History is an academic discipline which examines history from the Big Bang to the present.
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Borman (crater)
Borman is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon.
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Burgess Meredith
Oliver Burgess Meredith (November 16, 1907 – September 9, 1997) was an American actor, director, producer, and writer.
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Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American engineer, former astronaut, and Command Pilot in the United States Air Force.
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Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space
Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space, frequently abbreviated BARIS, is a space simulation strategy game for MS-DOS.
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Canceled Apollo missions
Several planned missions of the Apollo manned Moon landing program of the 1960s and 1970s were canceled for a variety of reasons, including changes in technical direction, the Apollo 1 fire, hardware delays, and budget limitations.
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Cauchy (crater)
Cauchy is a small lunar impact crater on the eastern Mare Tranquillitatis.
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Charles Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), nicknamed Lucky Lindy, The Lone Eagle, and Slim was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist.
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Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve is the evening or entire day before Christmas Day, the festival commemorating the birth of Jesus.
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Christopher C. Kraft Jr.
Christopher Columbus "Chris" Kraft Jr. (born February 28, 1924) is an American aerospace engineer and retired NASA engineer and manager who was instrumental in establishing the agency's Mission Control operation.
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Clifford E. Charlesworth
Clifford Eugene Charlesworth (November 29, 1931 – January 28, 1991) was a NASA Flight Director during the Gemini and Apollo programs, including the Apollo 11 Moon landing mission.
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Collector's Guide Publishing
Collector's Guide Publishing (CGP) is a Canadian publisher based in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
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Colonization of the Moon
The colonization of the Moon is a proposed establishment of permanent human communities or robotic industries on the Moon.
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Common heritage of mankind
Common heritage of mankind (also termed the common heritage of humanity, common heritage of humankind or common heritage principle) is a principle of international law which holds that defined territorial areas and elements of humanity's common heritage (cultural and natural) should be held in trust for future generations and be protected from exploitation by individual nation states or corporations.
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Conflict (UFO)
"Conflict" is the fourth episode aired of the first series of UFO - a 1970 British television science fiction series about an alien invasion of Earth.
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Congressional Space Medal of Honor
The Congressional Space Medal of Honor was authorized by the United States Congress in 1969 to recognize "any astronaut who in the performance of his duties has distinguished himself by exceptionally meritorious efforts and contributions to the welfare of the Nation and mankind." The highest award given by NASA, it is awarded by the President of the United States in Congress's name on recommendations from the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Crater Illusion
The Crater Illusion also known as the Crater/Dome Illusion or Dome Illusion is an optical illusion which causes impact craters in some images to appear as domes or mountains.
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Cultural influence of Jules Verne
Jules Verne (1828–1905), the French writer best known for his Voyages extraordinaires series, has had a wide influence in both scientific and literary fields.
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December 1965
The following events occurred in December 1965.
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December 1968
The following events occurred in December 1968.
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December 21
In the Northern Hemisphere, December 21 is usually the shortest day of the year and is sometimes regarded as the first day of winter.
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December 24
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December 25
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December 27
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DeMolay International
DeMolay International, founded in Kansas City, Missouri in 1919, is an international fraternal organization for young men ages 12 to 21.
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Deutsches Museum
The Deutsches Museum (German Museum) in Munich, Germany, is the world's largest museum of science and technology, with about 28,000 exhibited objects from 50 fields of science and technology.
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Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)
The Distinguished Flying Cross is a military decoration awarded to any officer or enlisted member of the United States Armed Forces who distinguishes himself or herself in support of operations by "heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight, subsequent to November 11, 1918.".
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Don Parrish (adventurer)
Donald Maltby Parrish Jr. (born October 27, 1944), better known as Don Parrish, is an American adventurer and former technical manager at AT&T Bell Laboratories.
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Donald J. Atwood Jr.
Donald Jesse Atwood Jr. (May 25, 1924 – April 24, 1994) was appointed Deputy Secretary of Defense for U.S. President George H. W. Bush in 1989.
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Donald S. Jones
Vice Admiral Donald S. Jones (May 18, 1928 – December 13, 2004) was a United States Navy admiral.
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Douglas Vakoch
Douglas Vakoch (born June 16, 1961) is an American search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) researcher, psychologist, and president of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence), a nonprofit research and educational organization devoted to transmitting intentional signals to extraterrestrial civilizations.
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Earth in culture
The cultural perspective on Earth, or the world, varies by society and time period.
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Earth–Moon–Earth communication
Earth–Moon–Earth communication (EME), also known as moon bounce, is a radio communications technique that relies on the propagation of radio waves from an Earth-based transmitter directed via reflection from the surface of the Moon back to an Earth-based receiver.
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Earthrise
Earthrise is a photograph of the Earth and parts of the Moon's surface taken from lunar orbit by astronaut Bill Anders in 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission.
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Essex-class aircraft carrier
The Essex class was a class of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy that constituted the 20th century's most numerous class of capital ships.
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Eugene Merle Shoemaker
Eugene Merle Shoemaker (April 28, 1928 – July 18, 1997), also known as Gene Shoemaker, was an American geologist and one of the founders of the field of planetary science.
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Exploration Mission 2
The Exploration Mission 2, or EM-2, is a scheduled 2023 mission of the Space Launch System and possibly the first crewed mission of NASA's Orion spacecraft.
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Exploration of the Moon
The physical exploration of the Moon began when Luna 2, a space probe launched by the Soviet Union, made an impact on the surface of the Moon on September 14, 1959.
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Falcon Heavy
Falcon Heavy is a partially reusable heavy-lift launch vehicle designed and manufactured by SpaceX.
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Far side of the Moon
The far side of the Moon (sometimes figuratively known as the dark side of the Moon) is the hemisphere of the Moon that always faces away from Earth.
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Farragut State Park
Farragut State Park is a state park in the northwest United States, located in northern Idaho at the southern tip of the Lake Pend Oreille in the Coeur d'Alene Mountains.
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Flight dynamics (spacecraft)
Spacecraft flight dynamics is the science of space vehicle performance, stability, and control.
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Frances Northcutt
Frances 'Poppy' Northcutt (August 10, 1943-) is a Texas attorney who notably began her career as a 'computress' and then an engineer for the technical staff on NASA's Apollo Program during the space race.
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Frank Borman
Frank Frederick Borman II (born March 14, 1928), (Col, USAF, Ret.), is a retired United States Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, best remembered as the Commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the Moon, making him, along with crew mates Jim Lovell and Bill Anders, the first of only 24 humans to do so.
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Fred Haise
Fred Wallace Haise Jr. (born November 14, 1933) is an American former NASA astronaut, fighter pilot with the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Air Force and test pilot.
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Free-return trajectory
A free-return trajectory is a trajectory of a spacecraft traveling away from a primary body (for example, the Earth) where gravity due to a secondary body (for example, the Moon) causes the spacecraft to return to the primary body without propulsion (hence the term free).
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From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries)
From the Earth to the Moon is a 12-part 1998 HBO television miniseries co-produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Tom Hanks, and Michael Bostick, telling the story of the landmark Apollo expeditions to the Moon during the 1960s and early 1970s in docudrama format.
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G. David Low
George David Low (February 19, 1956 – March 15, 2008) was an American aerospace executive and a NASA astronaut.
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Gaia hypothesis
The Gaia hypothesis, also known as the Gaia theory or the Gaia principle, proposes that living organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a synergistic and self-regulating, complex system that helps to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for life on the planet.
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Gary, Indiana
Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States, from downtown Chicago, Illinois.
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Gemini 9A
Gemini 9A (officially Gemini IX-A) With Gemini IV, NASA changed to Roman numerals for Gemini mission designations.
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George Mueller (NASA)
George Edwin Mueller (July 16, 1918 – October 12, 2015), was an American electrical engineer who was an associate administrator at NASA who headed the Office of Manned Space Flight from September 1963 until December 1969.
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Gerald P. Carr
Gerald Paul "Jerry" Carr (born August 22, 1932), (Col, USMC, Ret.), is an American mechanical and aeronautical engineer, former United States Marine Corps officer, naval aviator, and former NASA astronaut.
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Giordano Bruno (crater)
Giordano Bruno is a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon, just beyond the northeastern limb.
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Goclenius (crater)
Goclenius is a lunar impact crater that is located near the west edge of Mare Fecunditatis.
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Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album
The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album has been awarded since 1959.
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Grossmont High School
Grossmont High School is the oldest high school in San Diego's east county, California.
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Hasselblad
Victor Hasselblad AB is a Swedish manufacturer of medium-format cameras, photographic equipment and image scanners based in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Helicopter 66
Helicopter 66 is the common name of a United States Navy Sikorsky Sea King helicopter used during the late 1960s for the water recovery of astronauts during the Apollo program.
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Helmert (crater)
Helmert is a lunar impact crater at the southern edge of the Mare Smythii.
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Heritage Flight Museum
The Heritage Flight Museum is a non-profit organization located at the Skagit Regional Airport just west of Burlington, Washington.
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History of spaceflight
Spaceflight became part of human achievement in the 20th century following theoretical and practical breakthroughs by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Robert H. Goddard.
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Houston, We Have a Problem! (film)
Houston, We Have a Problem! (Houston, imamo problem!) is a 2016 internationally co-produced docufiction-mockumentary film by Slovene director Žiga Virc.
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Howl On
Howl On the fourth solo studio album by Bap Kennedy, was released on August 3, 2009 (see 2009 in music) on Kennedy's new label, Lonely Street Discs.
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HSC-4
Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron FOUR (HSC-4) (previously Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron FOUR (HS-4)), also known as the Black Knights, is a multi-role combat helicopter squadron of the United States Navy based at Naval Air Station North Island which operates Sikorsky MH-60S Seahawk helicopters deployed aboard aircraft carriers.
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Human spaceflight
Human spaceflight (also referred to as crewed spaceflight or manned spaceflight) is space travel with a crew or passengers aboard the spacecraft.
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In the Shadow of the Moon (film)
In the Shadow of the Moon is a 2007 British documentary film about the United States' manned missions to the Moon.
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Index (crater)
Index is a feature on Earth's Moon, a crater in the Hadley–Apennine region.
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Interstate 94 in Indiana
Interstate 94 (I-94) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that runs from Billings, Montana, to Port Huron, Michigan.
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James E. Webb
James Edwin Webb (October 7, 1906 – March 27, 1992) was an American government official who served as the second administrator of NASA from February 14, 1961 to October 7, 1968.
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James McDivitt
James Alton "Jim" McDivitt (born June 10, 1929), (Brigadier General, USAF, Ret.), is an American former test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut who flew in the Gemini and Apollo programs.
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James Oberg
James Edward Oberg (born November 7, 1944), often known as Jim Oberg, is an American space journalist and historian, regarded as an expert on the Russian and Chinese space programs.
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Jim Lovell
James Arthur Lovell Jr. (born March 25, 1928) is a former NASA astronaut, Naval Aviator, and retired Navy captain.
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John P. Healey
John P. Healey (born March 7, 1922, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States) is an executive manager best known for his role in the redesign and manufacture of the command modules for the Apollo program after the catastrophic launch pad fire that took the lives of Command Pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee on January 27, 1967 (Apollo 1).
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John S. Bull
John Sumter Bull, Ph.D. (September 25, 1934 – August 11, 2008), (Lt Cmdr, USN), was an American naval officer and aviator, fighter pilot, test pilot, mechanical and aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut.
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John Schaeffer (environmentalist)
John Schaeffer was born November 9, 1949 in Los Angeles, California.
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Journey Through the Solar System
Journey Through the Solar System was a 13-episode documentary series produced by NASA's Lewis Research Center in 1983.
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Keeler (lunar crater)
Keeler is a large lunar impact crater that lies on the Moon's far side.
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Ken Mattingly
Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II (born March 17, 1936), (RADM, USN, Ret.), better known as Ken Mattingly, is a former American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, Rear Admiral in the United States Navy and astronaut who flew on the Apollo 16, STS-4 and STS-51-C missions.
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Kennedy Space Center
The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is one of ten National Aeronautics and Space Administration field centers.
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Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is the visitor center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Kenneth Franklin
Kenneth Linn Franklin (March 25, 1923 – June 18, 2007) was an American astronomer and educator.
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Kilroy was here
Kilroy was here is an American popular culture expression that became popular during World War II; it is typically seen in graffiti.
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Korolev (lunar crater)
Korolev is a large lunar impact crater of the walled plain or basin type, named for Soviet rocket engineer Sergey Korolyov.
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Kurt H. Debus
Kurt Heinrich Debus (November 29, 1908 – October 10, 1983) was a German V-2 rocket scientist during World War II who, after being brought to the United States under Operation Paperclip, became the first director of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in 1962.
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Launch Complex 39 Press Site
The Launch Complex 39 Press Site is a news media facility at Launch Complex 39 at the John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on Merritt Island, Florida where journalists have observed every U.S. manned space launch since Apollo 8 in 1968.
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Launch Control Center
The Launch Control Center (LCC) is a four-story building located at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida used for the supervision of launches from Launch Complex 39.
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Let There Be Light (song)
"Let There Be Light" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1995.
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List of Alpha Phi Omega members
This is a listing of notable alumni and honorary members of Alpha Phi Omega, an international service fraternity.
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List of Apollo astronauts
Thirty-two astronauts were assigned to fly in the Apollo manned lunar landing program.
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List of Apollo mission types
In September 1967, Owen Maynard of the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas proposed a series of Apollo missions that would lead up to a manned lunar landing.
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List of Apollo missions
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972.
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List of artificial objects in heliocentric orbit
Below is a list of artificial objects in heliocentric orbit.
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List of astronauts by first flight
This is a list of astronauts by first flight, in chronological order, according to the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale criterion of achieving an altitude higher than, thereby crossing the Kármán line.
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List of astronauts by name
This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.
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List of astronauts educated at the United States Military Academy
The United States Military Academy (USMA) is an undergraduate college in West Point, New York that educates and commissions officers for the United States Army.
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List of astronauts educated at the United States Naval Academy
Over 50 United States astronauts have graduated from the United States Naval Academy (USNA), more than from any other undergraduate institution.
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List of C-SPAN Q&A interviews first aired in 2018
Q&A is an interview series on the C-SPAN network that typically airs every Sunday night.
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List of Cape Canaveral and Merritt Island launch sites
Cape Canaveral and adjacent Merritt Island on Florida's Atlantic coast are home to two American spaceports, one civilian and one military, servicing several active launch sites.
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List of circumnavigations
This is a list of circumnavigations of the planet Earth.
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List of crewed spacecraft
This is a list of crewed spacecraft types, including space stations, sorted by status, nation and series in chronological order.
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List of Eagle Scouts
Eagle Scout is the highest rank attainable in the Boy Scouting program division of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).
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List of extraterrestrial orbiters
List of extraterrestrial orbiters is a listing of spacecraft that achieved an extraterrestrial orbit.
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List of fictional astronauts (miscellaneous futuristic activities)
The following is a list of fictional astronauts on missions to deflect asteroids and comets which pose a threat to Earth, as well as performing other miscellaneous feats of space exploration not yet achieved.
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List of fictional astronauts (Project Apollo era)
The following is a list of fictional astronauts from the era of the Apollo program and the early history of the Soyuz spacecraft, during the "Golden Age" of space travel.
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List of From the Earth to the Moon characters
This is a list of characters, real and fictional, in the 1998 HBO docudrama TV miniseries From the Earth to the Moon.
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List of Horizon episodes
Horizon is a current and long-running BBC popular science and philosophy documentary programme.
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List of human spaceflights
These chronological lists include all crewed spaceflights that reached an altitude of at least 100 km (the FAI definition of spaceflight, see Kármán line), or were launched with that intention but failed.
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List of human spaceflights, 1961–70
This is a detailed listing of human spaceflights from 1961 to 1970, spanning the Soviet Vostok and Voskhod programs, the start of the Soviet Soyuz program, the American Mercury and Gemini programs, and the first lunar landings of the American Apollo program.
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List of iconic photographs
Many books have been produced about iconic photographs and giving suggested examples.
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List of joint sessions of the United States Congress
This is a list of joint sessions and joint meetings of the United States Congress.
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List of missions to the Moon
As part of human exploration of the Moon, numerous space missions have been undertaken to study Earth's natural satellite.
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List of national anthem performers at the Super Bowl
This article is a list of national anthem performers at the Super Bowl.
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List of people from Lake Forest, Illinois
The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Lake Forest, Illinois.
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List of People's Century interviewees
The 1995 BBC/PBS documentary People's Century interviewed over one hundred persons who witnessed key events during the 20th century, including several centenarians who could recall the First World War and even earlier.
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List of space travelers by name
The criteria for determining who has achieved human spaceflight vary.
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List of space travelers by nationality
The criteria for determining who has achieved human spaceflight vary.
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List of spaceflight records
This is a list of spaceflight records.
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List of ticker-tape parades in New York City
Since 1886, those who have made significant achievements, heads of state, returning veterans and sport champions from the New York area have been honored with ticker-tape parades.
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List of U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School alumni
The U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School (TPS) graduated the following notable alumni who made significant contributions to the aerospace field.
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List of United States airmen
This is a list of people who served in the United States Air Force, the Air National Guard, or their antecedents in the Army.
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List of United States Military Academy alumni
The United States Military Academy (USMA) is an undergraduate college in West Point, New York with the mission of educating and commissioning officers for the United States Army.
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List of United States Naval Academy alumni
The United States Naval Academy (USNA) is an undergraduate college in Annapolis, Maryland with the mission of educating and commissioning officers for the United States Navy and Marine Corps.
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Ljuva sextital
Ljuva sextital is a song written by Benny Andersson, Stig "Stikkan" Anderson and Björn Ulvaeus, and originally recorded by Brita Borg, released it as a 1969 single with the song Jan Öiwind Swahn acting as B-side, and Sven-Olof Walldoff's band acting as musicians.
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Lost Cosmonauts
The Lost Cosmonauts or Phantom Cosmonauts are subjects of a conspiracy theory alleging that Soviet cosmonauts went to outer space before Yuri Gagarin, but their existence has never been publicly acknowledged by either the Soviet or Russian space authorities.
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Lovell (crater)
Lovell is a small lunar impact crater that lies across the eastern edge of the walled plain Apollo, on the far side of the Moon.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after having served as the 37th Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963.
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March 1967
The following events occurred in March 1967.
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Mars 2M No.521
Mars 2M No.521, also known as Mars M-69 No.521 and sometimes identified by NASA as Mars 1969A, was a Soviet spacecraft which was lost in a launch failure in 1969.
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Mary Meader
Rachael Mary Upjohn Light Meader (April 15, 1916 – March 16, 2008) was an American aerial photographer and explorer.
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Meitner (lunar crater)
Meitner is an impact crater on the far side of the Moon, behind the eastern limb.
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Miami International Airport
Miami International Airport, also known as MIA and historically as Wilcox Field, is the primary airport serving the Miami area.
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Michael Collins (astronaut)
Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930) (Major General, USAF, Ret.) is an American former astronaut and test pilot.
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Milt Heflin
James Milton Heflin Jr. (born May 28, 1943 in Fairfax, Oklahoma) is a retired NASA official, who recently served as the associate director for technical activities at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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Milton Windler
Milton "Milt" Windler is a retired NASA Flight Director.
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Minolta
was a Japanese manufacturer of cameras, camera accessories, photocopiers, fax machines, and laser printers.
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Missile Row
Missile Row was a nickname given in the 1960s to the US Air Force and NASA launch complexes at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS).
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Mobile Launcher Platform 3
Mobile Launcher Platform 3 or MLP-3, formerly Mobile Launcher 1 or ML-1 is one of three Mobile Launcher Platforms used at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39.
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Montes Secchi
Montes Secchi (Latin for "Secchi Mountains") is a minor range of lunar mountains located near the northwestern edge of Mare Fecunditatis.
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Moon
The Moon is an astronomical body that orbits planet Earth and is Earth's only permanent natural satellite.
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Moon landing
A Moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon.
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Moon landing conspiracy theories
Moon landing conspiracy theories claim that some or all elements of the Apollo program and the associated Moon landings were hoaxes staged by NASA, possibly with the aid of other organizations.
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Motion sickness
Motion sickness is a condition in which a disagreement exists between visually perceived movement and the vestibular system's sense of movement.
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Mount Marilyn
Mount Marilyn is a lunar mountain within the Montes Secchi, which separate Mare Fecunditatis to the east from Mare Tranquillitatis to the west.
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Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)
The Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) is located in Chicago, Illinois, in Jackson Park, in the Hyde Park neighborhood between Lake Michigan and The University of Chicago.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.
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NASA Astronaut Group 2
NASA's Astronaut Group 2, also known as The New Nine, was the second group of astronauts selected by NASA and announced on September 17, 1962.
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NASA Astronaut Group 3
Astronaut Group 3 was the third group of astronauts selected by NASA.
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NASA space-flown Gemini and Apollo medallions
NASA space-flown Gemini and Apollo medallions were mission-specific commemorative medallions—often astronaut-designed—which were approved by NASA and carried aboard the mission spacecraft into orbit.
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National Space Institute
The National Space Institute was a space advocacy group, the first of its kind, established by Dr.
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Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who was the first person to walk on the Moon.
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Neiman Marcus
Neiman Marcus Group Inc., originally Neiman-Marcus, is an American department store owned by the Neiman Marcus Group, headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
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Newtown area graffiti and street art
Since the 1980s, the area surrounding the inner-Sydney suburb of Newtown, New South Wales (NSW), Australia—including the suburbs of Newtown, Enmore, Erskineville, Camperdown and St Peters—has been known for its wide range of prominent graffiti and street art on walls.
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NFL on CBS
The NFL on CBS is the branding used for broadcasts of National Football League (NFL) games that are produced by CBS Sports, the sports division of the CBS television network in the United States.
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November 1968
The following events occurred in November 1968.
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October 1933
The following events occurred in October 1933.
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Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov
Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov (Оле́г Григо́рьевич Мака́ров) (6 January 1933 – 28 May 2003) was a Soviet cosmonaut.
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Outer space
Outer space, or just space, is the expanse that exists beyond the Earth and between celestial bodies.
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Outline of the Moon
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Moon: Moon – Earth's only permanent natural satellite.
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Oval Office
The Oval Office is the working office space of the President of the United States located in the West Wing of the White House, Washington, DC.
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Pacific Science Center
Pacific Science Center is an independent, non-profit science center in Seattle, Washington with a mission to ignite curiosity and fuel a passion for discovery, experimentation, and critical thinking.
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Parma, Ohio
Parma is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, located on the southern edge of Cleveland.
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Patrick Moore
Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore (4 March 19239 December 2012) was an English amateur astronomer who attained prominent status in that field as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter.
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Pete Conrad
Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. (June 2, 1930 – July 8, 1999), (Captain, USN), was an American NASA astronaut, aeronautical engineer, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and during the Apollo 12 mission became the third man to walk on the Moon.
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Planté (crater)
Planté is a lunar crater that is situated near the eastern inner wall of the much larger crater Keeler.
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Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson
The presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson began on November 22, 1963, when Johnson became the 36th President of the United States upon the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and ended on January 20, 1969.
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Proton (rocket family)
Proton (Russian: Протон) (formal designation: UR-500) is an expendable launch system used for both commercial and Russian government space launches.
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Religion in space
Astronauts, cosmonauts, and spaceflight participants have observed their religions while in space; sometimes publicly, sometimes privately.
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RM-81 Agena
The RM-81 Agena was an American rocket upper stage and satellite bus which was developed by Lockheed initially for the canceled WS-117L reconnaissance satellite program.
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Robert Kurson
Robert A. Kurson (born April 18, 1963) is an American author, best known for his 2004 bestselling book, Shadow Divers, the true story of two Americans who discover a World War II German U-boat sunk 60 miles off the coast of New Jersey.
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Rocketdyne F-1
The F-1 is a gas-generator cycle rocket engine developed in the United States by Rocketdyne in the late 1950s and used in the Saturn V rocket in the 1960s and early 1970s.
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S-IC
The S-IC (pronounced "ess one see") was the first stage of the American Saturn V rocket.
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S-II
The S-II (pronounced "S-two") was the second stage of the Saturn V rocket.
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S-IVB
The S-IVB (sometimes S-4B, always pronounced "ess four bee") was built by the Douglas Aircraft Company and served as the third stage on the Saturn V and second stage on the Saturn IB.
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Saturn (rocket family)
The Saturn family of American rocket boosters was developed by a team of mostly German rocket scientists led by Wernher von Braun to launch heavy payloads to Earth orbit and beyond.
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Saturn V
The Saturn V (pronounced "Saturn five") was an American human-rated expendable rocket used by NASA between 1967 and 1973.
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Saturn V Instrument Unit
The Saturn V Instrument Unit is a ring-shaped structure fitted to the top of the Saturn V rocket's third stage (S-IVB) and the Saturn IB's second stage (also an S-IVB).
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Seymour Liebergot
Seymour "Sy" Abraham Liebergot (born February 15, 1936 in Camden, New Jersey) is a retired NASA flight controller, serving during the Apollo program.
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Silly Putty
Silly Putty is a toy based on silicone polymers that have unusual physical properties.
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Skylab
Skylab was the United States' space station that orbited the Earth from 1973 to 1979, when it fell back to Earth amid huge worldwide media attention.
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Slow-scan television
Slow Scan television (SSTV) is a picture transmission method used mainly by amateur radio operators, to transmit and receive static pictures via radio in monochrome or color.
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Soviet crewed lunar programs
The Soviet crewed lunar programs were a series of unsuccessful programs pursued by the Soviet Union to land a man on the Moon, in competition with the United States Apollo program to achieve the same goal set publicly by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961.
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Soviet space program
The Soviet space program (Russian: Космическая программа СССР, Kosmicheskaya programma SSSR) comprised several of the rocket and space exploration programs conducted by the Soviet Union (USSR) from the 1930s until its collapse in 1991.
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Soyuz 7K-L1
The Soyuz 7K-L1 "Zond" spacecraft was designed to launch men from the Earth to circle the Moon without going into lunar orbit in the context of the Soviet manned moon-flyby program in the Moon race.
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Space adaptation syndrome
Space adaptation syndrome (SAS) or space sickness is a condition experienced by around half of space travelers during adaptation to weightlessness.
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Space Age
The Space Age is a time period encompassing the activities related to the Space Race, space exploration, space technology, and the cultural developments influenced by these events.
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Space architecture
Space architecture, in its simplest definition, is the theory and practice of designing and building inhabited environments in outer space.
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Space exploration
Space exploration is the discovery and exploration of celestial structures in outer space by means of evolving and growing space technology.
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Space policy of the United States
The space policy of the United States includes both the making of space policy through the legislative process, and the implementation of that policy in the civilian and military US space programs through regulatory agencies.
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Space propaganda
Space propaganda is about achievements in space science and technology that are used as propaganda.
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Space Race
The Space Race refers to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for dominance in spaceflight capability.
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Space Race (TV series)
Space Race is a BBC docudrama series first shown in Britain on BBC2 between 14 September and 5 October 2005, chronicling the major events and characters in the American/Soviet space race up to the first landing of a man on the moon.
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Spacecraft call signs
Spacecraft call signs are radio call signs used for communication in manned spaceflight.
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SpaceX lunar tourism mission
The SpaceX lunar tourism mission (unofficial name) is a proposed private mission to fly two space tourists around the Moon aboard SpaceX's BFR rocket and its crewed upper stage, known as the "Big Falcon Spaceship" (BFS).
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Speed of light
The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted, is a universal physical constant important in many areas of physics.
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Splashdown
Splashdown is the method of landing a spacecraft by parachute in a body of water.
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Starmus Festival
The Starmus International Festival is an international gathering focused on celebrating astronomy, space exploration, music, art, and allied sciences such as biology and chemistry.
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Sunday Times Golden Globe Race
The Sunday Times Golden Globe Race was a non-stop, single-handed, round-the-world yacht race, held in 1968–1969, and was the first round-the-world yacht race.
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Super Bowl III
Super Bowl III was the third AFL–NFL Championship Game in professional American football, and the first to officially bear the trademark name "Super Bowl".
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Tecwyn Roberts
Tecwyn Roberts (10 October 1925 – 27 December 1988) was a Welsh-born American spaceflight engineer who in the 1960s played important roles in designing the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas and creating NASA’s worldwide tracking and communications network.
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Television standards conversion
Television standards conversion is the process of changing one type of television system to another.
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The Blue Marble
The Blue Marble is an image of planet Earth made on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft at a distance of about from the surface.
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The Exploration Museum
The Exploration Museum (Könnunarsögusafnið) is dedicated to the history of human exploration, from the early explorers to the exploration of space. The museum is located in the center of Húsavík in North Iceland, from the Arctic Circle. The museum was founded in 2011 and formally opened in 2014 by the President of Iceland. The main exhibition room features photographs and artifacts from the Apollo Astronaut Training near Húsavík in 1965 and 1967. The second exhibition room features the history of Viking Exploration. Upstairs is dedicated to the exploration of the polar regions and the races to the north and south poles. The basement details expeditions which travelled underground and beneath the sea.
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The Explorers Club
The Explorers Club is an American-based international multidisciplinary professional society with the goal of promoting scientific exploration and field study.
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The First Men in the Moon (disambiguation)
The First Men in the Moon is a novel by H. G. Wells.
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The Race for Space (album)
The Race for Space is the second studio album by British alternative group Public Service Broadcasting.
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The Songs of Distant Earth (album)
The Songs of Distant Earth is the 16th album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1994 by Warner Music.
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The Wonder Years (season 1)
The first season of The Wonder Years aired on ABC from January 31, 1988 to April 19, 1988.
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Time Person of the Year
Person of the Year (called Man of the Year or Woman of the Year until 1999) is an annual issue of the United States news magazine Time that features and profiles a person, a group, an idea, or an object that "for better or for worse...
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Timeline of astronomy
Babylonian astronomers discover an 18.6-year cycle in the rising and setting of the Moon.
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Timeline of history of environmentalism
This timeline is a listing of events that have shaped humanity's perspective on the environment.
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Timeline of Solar System astronomy
Timeline of Solar System astronomy.
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Timeline of Solar System exploration
This is a timeline of Solar System exploration ordered by date of spacecraft launch.
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Timeline of space exploration
This is for a timeline of space exploration including notable achievements and first accomplishments or major events in humanity's exploration of outer space.
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Timeline of the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson
The presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson began on November 22, 1963, when Lyndon B. Johnson became President of the United States following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and ended on January 20, 1969.
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Timeline of the Space Race
This is a timeline of first achievements in spaceflight from the first intercontinental ballistic missile through the first multinational human-crewed mission—spanning the era of the Space Race.
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Timeline of United States history
This is a timeline of United States history, comprising important legal and territorial changes as well as political, social, and economic events in the United States and its predecessor states.
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Trans-Earth injection
A trans-Earth injection (TEI) is a propulsion maneuver used to set a spacecraft on a trajectory which will intersect the Earth's Sphere of influence, usually putting the spacecraft on a Free return trajectory.
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Trans-lunar injection
A trans-lunar injection (TLI) is a propulsive maneuver used to set a spacecraft on a trajectory that will cause it to arrive at the Moon.
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Transposition, docking, and extraction
Transposition, docking, and extraction (often abbreviated to transposition and docking) was a maneuver performed during manned Apollo program missions from 1969 to 1972, and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) mission in 1975.
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Tsiolkovskiy (crater)
Tsiolkovskiy is a large lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon.
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Tucson High Magnet School
Tucson High Magnet School, commonly referred to as THMS, THS, and Tucson High, is a 2009 Performing Plus Tucson public high school and is part of the Tucson Unified School District with magnet programs in Technology, Visual Arts, and Performing Arts.
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U.S. space exploration history on U.S. stamps
With the advent of unmanned and manned space flight a new era of American history had presented itself.
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USNS Watertown (T-AGM-6)
USNS Watertown (T-AGM-6) was a ''Watertown''-class missile range instrumentation ship acquired by the U.S. Navy in 1960 and converted from her SS Niantic Victory Victory ship cargo configuration to a missile tracking ship, a role she retained for eleven years before being placed out of service in 1971.
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USS Francis Marion (APA-249)
USS Francis Marion (APA-249) was a Paul Revere-class attack transport of the United States Navy.
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USS Nicholas (DD-449)
USS Nicholas (DD/DDE-449) was a ''Fletcher''-class destroyer of the United States Navy, which served through most of World War II, and for 27 years and two more wars after.
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USS Rankin (AKA-103)
USS Rankin (AKA-103/LKA-103) was a (later Rankin class amphibious cargo ship) named after Rankin County, Mississippi.
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USS Saipan (CVL-48)
The first USS Saipan (CVL-48) was a light aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, the lead ship of her class of carrier.
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USS Salinan (ATF-161)
USS Salinan (ATF-161) was an built for the United States Navy during World War II.
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USS Sandoval (APA-194)
USS Sandoval (APA-194/LPA-194) was a ''Haskell''-class attack transport acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II for the task of transporting troops to and from combat areas.
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USS Yorktown (CV-10)
USS Yorktown (CV/CVA/CVS-10) is one of 24 s built during World War II for the United States Navy.
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Vance D. Brand
Vance DeVoe Brand (born May 9, 1931) is an American former naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut.
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Vegas (The Crystal Method album)
Vegas is the debut studio album by American electronic music duo The Crystal Method, released on August 26, 1997 by Outpost Recordings.
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Wallach (crater)
Wallach is a tiny lunar impact crater located in the eastern Mare Tranquillitatis.
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Waterman (crater)
Waterman is a lunar impact crater that is located on the Moon's far side, and cannot be viewed directly from the Earth.
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Way Station (band)
Way Station is Ukrainian post-rock, post-metal band formed in 2010 by Nikita Yudin.
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When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions
When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (or NASA's Greatest Missions: When We Left Earth in the UK) is a Discovery Channel HD documentary miniseries consisting of six episodes documenting American human spaceflight, spanning from the first Mercury flights through the Gemini program to the Apollo moon landings, the Space Shuttle, and the construction of the International Space Station.
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William Anders
William Alison "Bill" Anders (born October 17, 1933), (Maj Gen, USAFR, Ret.), is a former United States Air Force officer, electrical engineer, nuclear engineer, NASA astronaut, and businessman.
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Zond 5
Zond 5, a member of the Soviet Zond program, was an unmanned spacecraft that in September 1968 became the second ship to travel to and circle the Moon, and the first to return safely to Earth.
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Zond 6
Zond 6, a formal member of the Soviet Zond program and unmanned version of Soyuz 7K-L1 manned moon-flyby spacecraft, was launched on a lunar flyby mission from a parent satellite (68-101B) in Earth parking orbit.
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1960s
The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on 1 January 1960, and ended on 31 December 1969.
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1968
This was the year of the Protests of 1968.
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1968 in aviation
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1968.
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1968 in science
The year 1968 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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1968 in spaceflight
The United States National Space Science Data Center catalogued 157 spacecraft placed into orbit by launches which occurred in 1968.
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1968 in television
For the American TV schedule, see: 1968–69 United States network television schedule. The year 1968 in television involved some significant events.
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1968 in the United States
1968 in the United States was marked by several major historical events.
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Apollo 8 S-IVB third stage, Apollo Eight, Apollo VIII, Apollo8.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8
