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Astronomy Picture of the Day ( APOD ) is a website provided by NASA and Michigan Technological University ( MTU ).
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* APOD NASA GOV NASA Signal 2002
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NASA and –
* 1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
* 1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
* 1993 – NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
* 1974 – Western Union ( in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft ) launches the United States ' first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.
* 1959 – Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States ' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the " Mercury Seven ".
* 2002 – The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.
The most famous experiment is probably the NASA Cosmic Background Explorer ( COBE ) satellite that orbited in 1989 – 1996 and which detected and quantified the large scale anisotropies at the limit of its detection capabilities.
* 1999 – NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
* 2006 – NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
* 1999 – NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
* 1993 – Space Shuttle program: STS-61 – NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
* 1984 – NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner was deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of airplane crashes.
* 1962 – NASA Relay 1 launch, first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
* 1932 – Joseph P. Kerwin, NASA astronaut
* 1943 – Homer Hickam, American author and retired NASA engineer
* 1960 – Richard Mastracchio, NASA astronaut
* 2009 – The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ( LRO ), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
* 1965 – Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew.
* 1962 – Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces Lunar Orbit Rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
* 2005 – STS-114: NASA grounds the Space Shuttle, pending an investigation of the continuing problem with the shedding of foam insulation from the external fuel tank.
* 1958 – U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ).
* 2004 – Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04: 35 UTC.
* 1941 – Frederick D. Gregory, NASA astronaut
* 2006 – The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.
NASA and May
On May 28, 2002, NASA reported that Odyssey's GRS had detected large amounts of hydrogen, a sign that there must be ice lying within a meter of the planet's surface.
Challenger itself was replaced by the, which first launched in May 1992 and was constructed from structural spares that had been ordered by NASA as part of the construction contracts for Discovery and Atlantis.
Tamara Elizabeth " Tammy " Jernigan, Ph. D. ( born May 7, 1959, in Chattanooga, Tennessee ) is an American scientist and former NASA astronaut and a veteran of five shuttle missions.
* The First Man In Space – NASA / JPL translation of Soviet Radio and Newspaper Reports – May 1, 1961
* May 15 – Mercury program: NASA launches Gordon Cooper on Mercury 9, the last mission ( on June 12 NASA Administrator James E. Webb tells Congress the program is complete ).
To measure the spectrum of the diffuse X-ray emission from the interstellar medium over the energy range 0. 07 to 1 keV, NASA launched a Black Brant 9 from White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico on May 1, 2008.
On May 30, 1974, the first geostationary communications satellite in the world to be three-axis stabilized was launched: the experimental satellite ATS-6 built for NASA
Selected by NASA in May 1984, Dr. Carter became an astronaut in June 1985, qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on future Space Shuttle flight crews.
The content of Green Mars and the cover artwork for Red Mars are included on the Phoenix DVD, carried onboard Phoenix, a NASA lander that successfully touched down on Mars in May 2008.
During all this Collins and David Scott were sent by NASA to the Paris Air Show in May 1967.
Based on the success of earlier maintenance missions, NASA decided to have a fifth service mission to Hubble ; this was STS-125 flown on May 11, 2009.
* NASA — Carrington Super Flare NASA May 6, 2008
* O ' Connor, Bryan, ( NASA ), " Eschede Train Disaster ", Leadership ViTS Meeting, May 7, 2007
* Phoenix — NASA lander, landed May 25, 2008
Image: Elizabeth II greets NASA GSFC employees, May 8, 2007 edit. jpg | The Queen
* Mars Exploration Rover project, NASA / JPL document NSS ISDC 2001 27 May 2001
* NASA-Carrington Super Flare NASA May 6, 2008
In May 2008, NASA and Disney announced that an original Thinkway Toys ' Buzz Lightyear action figure would fly aboard the space shuttle Discovery on mission STS-124.
The mission launched with Buzz aboard the NASA space shuttle Discovery ( STS-124 ) on May 31, 2008, to celebrate the opening of Toy Story Midway Mania at Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disney California Adventure Park theme parks, with the ultimate destination of the International Space Station ( ISS ).
U-2 with fictitious NASA markings and serial number at the NASA Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, on 6 May 1960 ( NASA photo ).
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