After the first-generation spacecraft Vostok and Mercury had proved the technical feasibility of manned spaceflight, NASA proceeded to build its second-generation capsule, Gemini, which was a completely new design which retained the successful features of Mercury such as the conical shape with a heat shield at the bottom while adding several new features for example engines strong enough to significantly alter orbit, docking and rendezvous facilities, and provisions for EVA, all of which were essential for practical applications of spaceflight, namely a manned Moon mission.

After the war he created the Bölkow GmbH in Ottobrunn, which with time grew to the biggest aeronautics and spaceflight company, MBB ( Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm ).

After failing to regain mobility in his arm after two surgical interventions ( in 1964 and 1967 ), Carpenter was ruled ineligible for spaceflight.

After joining NASA, Slayton was selected to pilot the second U. S. manned orbital spaceflight, but was grounded in 1962 by a heart murmur.

After his spaceflight he became a professor in 1987 as well as the Director of the Institute of Space Sciences at the Free University of Berlin.

* After his spaceflight, Frimout was ennobled and given the title of viscount in the Belgian nobility.

After his spaceflight he became a professor at the Institut für Raumfahrtsysteme at the University of Stuttgart.

After his third spaceflight Voss spent two years training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia.

After his spaceflight, he returned to the German Air Force.

After his spaceflight, he returned to the Syrian Air Force and lives in Aleppo.

After the existing Apollo program was chartered by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961 to land men on the Moon, it became evident to NASA officials that a follow-on to the Mercury program was required to develop certain spaceflight capabilities in support of Apollo.

After the initial phase of the Hate Plague had infected the Earth and the surrounding star systems Sky Lynx was perhaps the only uninfected transformer still capable of spaceflight.

After they had finished eating, Melissa took Sprite the kitten under her arm -- `` so that Auntie Grace can teach it about the whistle '' -- and climbed into the station wagon beside her mother.

After a time, he straightened again, brushing the red Permian dust from his hands, slapping it from his six-dollar levis and his tailored, twenty-five-dollar shirt.

After all, you want the senora as much as you want the boy.

After walking out to his corral that morning, he'd been amazed to see the dust puff up in front of his feet.

After the first two murders, the warning notes were rarely ignored.

After their supper, the evening turned into a regular `` Hoe-Down ''.

She said without turning her head, `` After that rain beating in atop the dust, there isn't a thing that won't be streaked ''.

After what seemed several seconds, the open mouth grew dark inside then blood began to ooze from it.

After the war, Penny had wanted Keith at least to visit her home with her.

After all, he had less reason to desire it than the marine.

After I paid Monsieur Prieur for Dandy, I brought him home, but he was ill at ease and ran away the same night.

After a while, Kitty murmured something to Cappy, and he held her close, answering, `` We'll just have to wait till we pull into Philly, honey ''.

After a few seconds, she said, `` Dad didn't like Cappy.

After that, it requires several minutes of concentrated work, including six separate and deliberate actions by a minimum of three men sitting at three separate stations in a bomber, each with another man beside him to help, for an armed bomb to be released.

After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.

After the war began, he long refused to permit emancipation of the slaves by Union action even in the Border States that stayed with the Union.

After his passage, the street was empty again.

After only eighteen years of non-interference, there were already indications of melioration, though `` in a slight degree '', to be sure.

After the collapse of that desperate and ill-fated campaign the character of the king degenerated for a time into a futility that was not merely pitiable but often ridiculous.

After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.

After a sort of death march during four days without food, Helion and his comrades were shipped by cattle-car to a labor camp at an estate farm in East Germany.

After that, he declared, `` to return to freedom was to fall to one's knees before the real world and adore it ''.

After casting about for a way of describing this spirit, we decided that it would be better to use Mr. Lyford's introduction as an illustration.

After all, that's the job of the architect -- to give the world a little joy ''.

After he had finished the first two volumes of his Lincoln, Sandburg went to work assembling a book of songs out of hobo and childhood days and from the memory of songs others had taught him.

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.

Apollo set several major human spaceflight milestones.

The program laid the foundation for NASA's current human spaceflight capability, and funded construction of its Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center.

Apollo also spurred advances in many areas of technology incidental to rocketry and manned spaceflight, including avionics, telecommunications, and computers.

" While NASA went ahead with planning for Apollo, funding for the program was far from certain given Eisenhower's ambivalent attitude to manned spaceflight.

* 1967 – Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 ( Russian: Союз 1, Union 1 ) is a manned spaceflight, Launched into orbit carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov.

On June 21, 2004, Space Ship One became the first privately funded aircraft to make a spaceflight, opening the possibility of an aviation market capable of leaving the Earth's atmosphere.

Rockets are used for fireworks, weaponry, ejection seats, launch vehicles for artificial satellites, human spaceflight and exploration of other planets.

At the start, players choose from advances such as pottery, the wheel, and the alphabet to, near the end of the game, nuclear fission and spaceflight.

However, the Soviet Union was fiercely competitive in holding the early lead it had gained in manned spaceflight, so the Soviet Communist Party, led by Nikita Khrushchev, ordered the hasty conversion of its single-pilot Vostok capsule into a two-or three-person craft named Voskhod, in order to compete with Gemini and Apollo.

Gemini 10 ( officially Gemini X ) was a 1966 manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program.

The first human spaceflight in history was accomplished on a derivative of R-7, Vostok, on 12 April 1961, by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

Human spaceflight programs ( Vostok, Mercury, Voskhood, Gemini, etc.

25 minutes — sub-orbital spaceflight in an elliptic flightpath ; the flightpath is part of an ellipse with a vertical major axis ; the apogee ( halfway through the midcourse phase ) is at an altitude of approximately 1, 200 km ; the semi-major axis is between 3, 186 km and 6, 372 km ; the projection of the flightpath on the Earth's surface is close to a great circle, slightly displaced due to earth rotation during the time of flight ; the missile may release several independent warheads, and penetration aids such as metallic-coated balloons, aluminum chaff, and full-scale warhead decoys.

Interplanetary spaceflight or interplanetary travel is travel between planets within a single planetary system.

* 2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.

* 1966 – Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.

Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.

The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, operated by Delaware North since 1995, has a variety of exhibits, artifacts, displays and attractions on the history and future of human and robotic spaceflight.

The Skylab project, managed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Marshall Space Flight Center, was seen by the Manned Spacecraft Center ( later Johnson Space Center ) as an invasion of its historical role as the NASA center for manned spaceflight.

He is considered the father of spaceflight and the first person to conceive the space elevator, becoming inspired in 1895 by the newly-constructed Eiffel Tower in Paris.

As little was known about the impact of spaceflight on living creatures at the time of Laika's mission, and the technology to de-orbit had not yet been developed, there was no expectation of Laika's survival.

The experiment aimed to prove that a living passenger could survive being launched into orbit and endure weightlessness, paving the way for human spaceflight and providing scientists with some of the first data on how living organisms react to spaceflight environments.

Soviet rocket engineers had long intended a canine orbit before attempting human spaceflight ; since 1951, they had lofted 12 dogs into sub-orbital space on ballistic flights, working gradually toward an orbital mission possibly some time in 1958.