* 1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, " Video Killed the Radio Star " by the Buggles.

The Bronze Star Medal or Bronze Star is an individual military decoration of the United States Armed Forces that may be awarded for acts of heroism, acts of merit, or meritorious service in a combat zone.

The Bronze Star Medal may be awarded by the Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of Homeland Security with regard to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy, or by such military commanders, or other appropriate officers as the Secretary concerned may designate, to any person who, while serving in any capacity in or with the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Coast Guard of the United States, after 6 December 1941, distinguishes, or has distinguished, himself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service, not involving participation in aerial flight —

The Bronze Star Medal ( without the " V " device ) may be awarded to each member of the Armed Forces of the United States who, after 6 December 1941, was cited in orders or awarded a certificate for exemplary conduct in ground combat against an armed enemy after 7 December 1941.

Since the award criteria state that the Bronze Star Medal may be awarded to " any person ... while serving in any capacity in or with " the U. S. Armed Forces, awards to members of foreign armed services serving with the United States are permitted.

The Bronze Star Medal with the " V " device is the United States military's fourth highest award for valor.

In April 2007, the Solomon Star reported that the Solomon Islands ' High Commissioner to the United Nations was soon to be sworn in as Ambassador to Cuba.

USASF / IASF Worlds: Many United States cheerleading organizations form and register the not-for-profit entity the United States All Star Federation ( USASF ) and also the International All Star Federation ( IASF ) to support international club cheerleading and the World Cheerleading Club Championships.

The following season, on the way home from a European Cup quarter-final victory against Red Star Belgrade, the aircraft carrying the Manchester United players, officials and journalists crashed while attempting to take off after refuelling in Munich, Germany.

The following season, Manchester United claimed its first Cup Winners ' Cup title and competed in the 1991 UEFA Super Cup, beating European Cup holders Red Star Belgrade 1 – 0 in the final at Old Trafford.

In 1995, Viacom and Chris-Craft Industries ' United Television launched United Paramount Network ( UPN ) with Star Trek: Voyager as its flagship series, fulfilling Barry Diller's plan for a Paramount network from 25 years earlier.

It follows the adventures of humanity's first warp 5 starship, the Enterprise, ten years before the United Federation of Planets shown in previous Star Trek series was formed.

This final episode, titled " These Are the Voyages ...", aired May 13, 2005 in the United States and was one of the most heavily criticized episodes of the Star Trek franchise.

According to the fictional storyline of the Star Trek universe, the Maquis were formed in the 24th Century after a peace treaty was enacted between the United Federation of Planets and the Cardassian Union, redesignating the demilitarized zone between the two powers, which resulted in the Federation ceding several of their colony worlds to the Cardassians.

In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ( 1991 ), McCoy and Kirk escape from a Klingon prison world, and the Enterprise crew stops a plot to prevent peace between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire.

This theory is supported by a reference within the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " United ": Senator Vrax refers to Vulcans as " our distant brothers " during the first part of the episode.

Hope for a more cooperative future between the United Federation of Planets and the Romulan Star Empire was strengthened after Shinzon's fall.

Relations between the Romulan Star Empire and the United Federation of Planets improved somewhat as a result of Picard's assistance ( Star Trek Nemesis ).

In Gene Roddenberry's original Star Trek pitch, the starship is described as a " United Space Ship ," and in two episodes of the original series ( TOS ), Kirk refers to the " United Space Ship Enterprise ".

This actually was not his first work in comics, as earlier the same year Barks along with Hannah and fellow storyman Nick George scripted Pluto Saves the Ship, which was among the first original Disney comic book stories published in the United States.

If a ship's hull classification symbol begins with " T -", it is part of the Military Sealift Command, has a primarily civilian crew, and is a United States Naval Ship ( USNS ) in non-commissioned service — as opposed to a commissioned United States Ship ( USS ).

The last major canal to be built in the United Kingdom was the Manchester Ship Canal, which upon opening in 1894 was the largest ship canal in the world, and opened Manchester as a port.

China is a party to the Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, the Antarctic Treaty, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Climate Change treaty, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, the Endangered Species treaty, the Hazardous Wastes treaty, the Law of the Sea, the International Tropical Timber Agreements of 1983 and 1994, the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, and agreements on Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, and Wetlands protection.

The Ship / Submarine Recycling Program ( SRP ) is the process the United States Navy uses to dispose of decommissioned nuclear vessels.

Findings of the Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Israeli Attack on USS Liberty, the Recall of Military Rescue Support Aircraft while the Ship was Under Attack, and the Subsequent Cover-up by the United States Government

" (" United States Ship ") is applied to ships commissioned by and for the United States Navy.

In the fictional Star Trek universe, there have been a number of starships named Enterprise ( where the designation refers to United Federation of Planets Star Ship rather than United States Ship ):

* May 7 – Clipper Ship City of Adelaide launched in Sunderland, United Kingdom.

In 1925 the United States Navy assumed control of the Howard Ship Yards until 1941, after Jeffersonville finally annexed Port Fulton.

Ship Bottom is a Borough in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.

During World War II, the United States Navy named a Liberty Ship in honor of Wheeler.

He has written pieces on lifting body development ( The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed ), the United States Merchant Marine ( Looking for a Ship ), farmers ' markets ( Giving Good Weight ), freight transportation ( Uncommon Carriers ), the shifting flow of the Mississippi River ( The Control of Nature ), geology ( in several books ), as well as a short book entirely on the subject of oranges.

A Ship Comes In ( also known as His Country ) is a 1928 silent film which tells the story of immigrants coming to the United States.

Astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a Manned Maneuvering Unit outside the United States Space Shuttle Space Shuttle Challenger | Challenger in 1984.

The Apollo program was the third human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ), the United States ' civilian space agency.

Tidbinbilla is a locality to the south-west of Canberra that features the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve and the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, operated by the United States ' National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) as part of its Deep Space Network.

Image: Pegasus_barge_being_moved_by_Freedom_Star_and_towboat_American_2. jpg | Barge carrying the Space Shuttle external tank for STS-119 under tow to Port Canaveral, Florida, United States

However, Space Pens, developed by Fisher in the United States, combine a more viscous than normal ballpoint pen ink with a gas-pressured piston which forces the ink toward the point.

STS-73 on Space Shuttle Columbia ( October 20 to November 5, 1995 ) was the second United States Microgravity Laboratory mission.

It was adopted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States Department of Energy and other technology-related agencies.

After Skylab, no more EVAs were made by the United States until the advent of the Space Shuttle program in the early 1980s.

Singer moved back to the United States in 1953, where he took up an associate professorship in physics at the University of Maryland, and at the same time served as the director of the Center for Atmospheric and Space Physics.

Singer has worked as a consultant for several government agencies, including the House Select Committee on Space, NASA, the Government Accountability Office, the National Science Foundation, the United States Atomic Energy Commission, National Research Council, the Department of Defense Strategic Defense Initiative, Department of Energy Nuclear Waste Panel, and the Department of the Treasury.

* Ground delay program, a traffic flow initiative that is instituted by the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States Air Space System

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* 1967 – The United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D. C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.

The John F. Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ) is the United States launch site that has been used for every NASA human space flight since 1968.

* Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States

On July 20, 1989, George H. W. Bush — then President of the United States — announced plans for what came to be known as the Space Exploration Initiative ( SEI ).

They are more well known for their work on Space Channel 5, Rez and the Sonic Riders series. The United Game Artists Logo