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Armstrong's second and last spaceflight was as mission commander of the Apollo 11 moon landing, in July 1969.
* 2005 – The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit.
In 1983, Columbia, under the command of John Young for his sixth spaceflight, undertook its second operational mission ( STS-9 ), in which the Spacelab science laboratory and a six-person crew was carried, including the first non-American astronaut on a space shuttle, Ulf Merbold.
The second manned spacecraft was named Freedom 7, and it performed a sub-orbital spaceflight in 1961 carrying American astronaut Alan Shepard to an altitude of just over.
The Voskhod programme (,, Ascent or Dawn ) was the second Soviet human spaceflight project.
Scott then spent ten days in orbit as Command Module Pilot aboard Apollo 9, his second spaceflight, along with Commander James McDivitt and Lunar Module Pilot Rusty Schweickart.
After joining NASA, Slayton was selected to pilot the second U. S. manned orbital spaceflight, but was grounded in 1962 by a heart murmur.
He was scheduled to fly in 1962 on the second orbital flight ( to have been named Delta 7, the name coming from the mission being the fourth spaceflightthe fourth letter in the Greek alphabet and the seven astronauts ), but because of an erratic heart rate ( idiopathic atrial fibrillation ), he was grounded in September 1962, and his place was taken by Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7.
In a similar move taken by the Soviet Union and the United States ( with national space flight heroes Yuri Gagarin and John Glenn, respectively ), an official decision to no longer assign him to spaceflight missions was made ( note: Glenn subsequently flew a second space flight on October 29, 1998, on Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-95 ).
Shenzhou 6, the second human spaceflight of China, launched on 12 October 2005 on a Long March rocket from JSLC.
Shenzhou 6 ( Shénzhōu lìuhào ) was the second human spaceflight of the People's Republic of China, launched on October 12, 2005 on a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
It launched three days before the second anniversary of China's first human spaceflight, Shenzhou 5.
Gemini 2 was the second spaceflight of the American human spaceflight program Project Gemini.
Gemini 2 was the first craft to make more than one spaceflight since the X-15, and the only one until Space Shuttle Columbia flew its second mission in 1981.
His second spaceflight was as Commander of another long-duration expedition called Mir EO-25, which was launched by the spacecraft Soyuz TM-27.
His first spaceflight mission was in 2007 aboard Soyuz TMA-10 and his second was in 2009 aboard Soyuz TMA-14.
His second spaceflight was ISS EP-1, which was launched with the spacecraft Soyuz TM-32 on April 28, 2001, and landed with Soyuz TM-31.
He is known for having performed ten EVAs so far in his career, presently holding the second longest all-time EVA duration record and having the longest spaceflight of any American at the length of 215 days ; this time was spent on board the ISS from September 18, 2006 to April 21, 2007.
Guidoni trained as an alternate payload specialist for this mission and made his first spaceflight aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia STS-75 in 1996, which included the second flight of the TSS system ( TSS-1R ).
Prior to the Challenger disaster, this mission was slated to launch in March 1986 as STS-61-E. Jon McBride was originally assigned to command this mission, which would have been his second spaceflight.
His second spaceflight was as a Mission Specialist on the 10-day mission aboard Endeavour, called STS-61 in 1993.
In the second half of the 20th century, as the United States was drawn into competition with the Soviet Union for political, economic, and military primacy, the government invested heavily in scientific research and technological development which spawned advances in spaceflight, computing, and biotechnology.
Completing his second long duration spaceflight, Korzun logged 184 days and 22 hours in space.

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The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.
When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.
He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.
A phony blonde hanging onto a bygone youth and beauty, but irreparably stringy in the neck, she was already working on her second gin and tonic, though it was not yet ten A.M.
Their skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and dirt which had almost the consistency of a second skin.
The second specific comment was the report of Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals, titled Goals For Americans.
He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.
Its second press release was on January 15, 1958, and it recommended that the secret papers be destroyed.
His second wife, Lillian, was the mother of John H. Mercer.
One shawl was so tremendous that she could not wear it, so she draped it over the banister on the second floor, and it hung over the stairway.
The second half of the sixteenth century in England was the setting for a violent and long controversy over the moral quality of renaissance literature, especially the drama.
Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.
The second name was ( Edward ) Kempe, matriculated from Queens' College at Easter, 1625.
Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.
The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.
When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.
But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.

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