The crew of the Apollo 13 mission survived despite an explosion caused by a faulty oxygen tank ( 1970 ); the crews of Soyuz 11 ( 1971 ), the Space Shuttles Challenger ( 1986 ) and Columbia ( 2003 ) were killed by malfunctions of their vessels ' components.

The Space Shuttles helped make it the largest space station ever, despite one of the Shuttles disintegrating upon re-entry in 2003.

* Witnesses ' Waltz by Leslie Fish – 1986 Pegasus Award Winner for Best Original Song, about watching the Space Shuttles launch

With the retirement of the USA's Space Shuttles, Russia will have the sole proven system for boosting crew to the station.

NASA's Project Mercury and Gemini space flights were launched from Cape Canaveral, as were all of the Apollo flights and Space Shuttles.

( The U. S. Apollo program and Space Shuttles used caterpillar tracks on a river stone roadbed because other solutions could not support the loads required.

Since the mid-1980s NASA has commissioned Stokes to paint 15 works ranging from the Space Shuttles to the SR-71 Blackbird.

Discoverys launch marked the first time since January 1986 that two Space Shuttles had been on the launch pad at the same time – Discovery on 39B and Columbia on 39A.

NASA used hydrogen to launch Space Shuttles into space.

Musgrave is the only astronaut to have flown missions on all five Space Shuttles.

The Space Coast is a region in the U. S. state of Florida around Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ), where NASA launched Space Shuttles until the last one on July 8, 2011 at 11: 29 a. m .; and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, site of unmanned civilian and military space launches.

Bobko became the first person to fly on three different Space Shuttles.

* On this mission, Story Musgrave became the only person to fly on all five Space Shuttles – Challenger, Atlantis, Discovery, Endeavour, and Columbia.

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In the 1980s, as a prototype for instruments to be flown on the NASA Space Shuttles, NASA operated a synthetic-aperture radar on a NASA Convair 990.

The horizontal rocket assembly of the Delta IV are similar to the ones with the assembly of Soyuz launch vehicles ; they are also assembled horizontally, unlike the current Space Shuttles, the past Saturn launch vehicles and the upcoming Ares I and Ares V, where they are assembled and rolled out to the launch pad entirely vertically.

During Jims stay on the ISS, the space station was visited by two unmanned cargo vehicles, the Soyuz TM-32 taxi mission, as well as two Space Shuttles ( STS-100 and STS-104 ).

The exhaust from Space Shuttles, which is almost entirely water vapour after the detachment of the Solid Rocket Booster at a height of about 46km, has been found to generate minuscule individual clouds.

During the STS-121 mission to the International Space Station ( ISS ), the crew of Space Shuttle Discovery continued to test new equipment and procedures for the inspection and repair of the thermal protection system that is designed to increase the safety of the Space Shuttles.

Momentum wheels ( used in the Hubble Space Telescope ) are a different type of actuator, mainly used for gyroscopic stabilization of spacecraft: momentum wheels have high rotation speeds ( around 6000 rpm ) and mass.

* Space Wheels were a unique pair of double Ferris wheels.

Space was further maximized by placing the engine directly over the rear axle and moving the driver far forward, so that the steering wheel was almost directly above the front wheels.

Both could be found boxed with accessories or boxed with a Space Crawler and Moon rover vehicle ( the former was battery operated: 2 D-Cells, which powered spoke-like wheels ).

Historical industries in the area included a Rockwell International plant on Route 20 on the western side of Ashtabula that manufactured brakes for the Space Shuttle program and the extrusion of depleted and enriched uranium at the Reactive Metals Extrusion plant on East 21st Street.

His technical assignments have included: Astronaut Office representative for all Space Shuttle issues related to landing sites, landing and deceleration hardware, including improvements to nosewheel steering, brakes and tires, and drag chute design ; Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory ( SAIL ), which oversees, checks, and verifies all Shuttle flight control software and avionics programs ; Technical Assistant to the Flight Crew Operations Director who is responsible for and manages all flight crew operations and support ; lead of the Astronaut Support Personnel team which oversee Shuttle test, checkout, and preparation at the Kennedy Space Center ; Special Assistant to the Director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas ; lead of a Functional Workforce Review at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, to determine minimal workforce and management structure requirements which allow maximum budget reductions while safely continuing Shuttle Flight Operations ; Director of Space Station Requirements at NASA Headquarters, responsible for the International Space Station requirements, policies, external communications and liaison with Congress, international partners, and industry.

Technical assignments since then included: member of the team that redesigned and tested the Space Shuttle nosewheel steering, tires, and brakes ; member of the launch support team at Kennedy Space Center for Shuttle flights STS-61-A, STS-61-B, STS-61-C, and STS-51-L ; in 1986 he worked at the NASA Headquarters Action Center in Washington, D. C., assisting with the Challenger accident investigations conducted by NASA, the Presidential Commission, and Congress.

In October 1986, he was reassigned to the Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, where he worked as a mechanical systems flight controller and was the lead operations engineer for the Space Shuttle landing gear, brakes, and emergency runway barrier.

The crawler's tanks held of diesel fuel, and it burned .. Due to its age and the need to support the Space Launch System's heavier Ares V and its launch tower, in mid 2012 one of the crawlers was undergoing an upgrade involving " new engines, new exhausts, new brakes, new hydraulics, new computers ,” to increase its lifting capacity from to.

His canvases nowadays bore titles frankly declaring them to be `` Figures In Space '', or `` Blue Figure '', or `` Pink Figure '' ; ;

Asteroids is also the first game to use Atari's " QuadraScan " vector-refresh system ; a full-color version known as " Color-QuadraScan " was later developed for games such as Space Duel and Tempest.

For example a B205 console was often shown in the television series Batman as the Bat Computer ; also as the computer in Lost in Space.

In the Space To Care study aimed at improving hospital design for children, researchers from the University of Sheffield polled 250 children regarding their opinions on clowns ; all 250 children in the study, whose ages ranged between four and sixteen, reported that they found clowns frightening and disliked clowns as part of hospital decor.

Time Out was followed by several albums with a similar approach, including Time Further Out: Miro Reflections ( 1961 ), using more 5 / 4, 6 / 4, and 9 / 8, plus the first attempt at 7 / 4 ; Countdown: Time in Outer Space ( dedicated to John Glenn ) ( 1962 ), featuring 11 / 4 and more 7 / 4 ; Time Changes ( 1963 ), with much 3 / 4, 10 / 4 ( which was really 5 + 5 ), and 13 / 4 ; and Time In ( 1966 ).

Bowie's second album, Space Oddity, followed in November ; originally issued in the UK as David Bowie, it caused some confusion with its predecessor of the same name, and the early US release was instead titled Man of Words / Man of Music.

At a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in Britain, a team from University of Queensland described 40 unknown " dwarf " galaxies in this constellation ; follow-up observations with the Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope revealed that ultra compact dwarfs are much smaller than previously known dwarf galaxies, about across.

General relativity also predicts the existence of gravitational waves, which have since been observed indirectly ; a direct measurement is the aim of projects such as LIGO and NASA / ESA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna and various pulsar timing arrays.

Space probes have been placed into orbit around all the five planets known to the ancients: first Mars ( Mariner 9, 1971 ), then Venus ( Venera 9, 1975 ; but landings on Venus and atmospheric probes were performed even earlier ), Jupiter ( Galileo, 1995 ), Saturn ( Cassini / Huygens, 2004 ), and most recently Mercury ( MESSENGER, March 2011 ), and have returned data about these bodies and their natural satellites.

* Planet Plane ( 1936 ) ( as John Beynon ; also known as The Space Machine and Stowaway to Mars )

During ascent, the external tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery sheds a piece of foam slightly smaller than the piece that caused the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster ; this foam does not strike the spacecraft.

Gate to the KSC Visitor Complex in 2006 ; Space Shuttle Explorer | Explorer, a Space Shuttle mock-up, is in the background

JPL has been recognized four times by the Space Foundation: with the Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award, which is given annually to an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to public awareness of space programs, in 1998 ; and with the John L. " Jack " Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration on three occasions – in 2009 ( as part of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Team ), 2006 and 2005.

Sorcerers can cast spells from one ( or rarely more ) of five different Lores ; Death, Dream, Madness, Passion and Time & Space.

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Replacement was cost-prohibitive because of the expensive requirement for flight certification ; the legacy hardware used completed the expensive integration and certification requirement for flight, but any new equipment would have had to go through that entire process – requiring extensive tests of the new components in their new configurations – before a single unit could be used in the Space Shuttle program.

Union College has also used Minerva as the name of their new academic and social " Third Space " program, the Minerva House System ; and, also here, Minerva is the goddess of Theta Delta Chi.

* " The Great Wall of Mars " ( 2000 ) by Alastair Reynolds, in which the most technologically advanced faction of humans is based on Mars and embroiled in an interplanetary war ; introduced some of the most important characters and groups in the Revelation Space universe.

* Morons from Outer Space ( 1985 )-Bernard ; also co-wrote the script with Griff Rhys Jones