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NASA had taken all the original tapes and erased them for use on subsequent missions ; however, the Apollo 11 Tape Search and Restoration Team formed in 2003 tracked down the highest quality footage among the converted recordings of the first broadcast, pieced together the best footage, then contracted a specialist film restoration company to enhance the degraded black-and-white film and convert it into digital format for archival records.
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At the time of Kennedy's proposal, only one American had flown in space — less than a month earlier — and NASA had not yet sent an astronaut into orbit.
One of nineteen astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966, Charles Duke had never flown in space before Apollo 16.
Although ion engines had been developed at NASA since the late 1950s, with the exception of the SERT missions in the 1960s, the technology had not been demonstrated in flight.
This clearly shows how NASA use of ICBM boosters for Projects Mercury and Gemini ( blue ) served as a highly visible demonstration of confidence in reliability at a time when failure rates had been substantial.
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.
It took several other attempts to establish the Antarctic losses as real and significant, especially after NASA had retrieved matching data from its satellite recordings.
In a 2001 report, NASA found the ozone thinning over Antarctica had remained the same thickness for the previous three years, however in 2003 the ozone hole grew to its second largest size.
NASA projections of stratospheric ozone concentrations if chlorofluorocarbons had not been banned.
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.
* 1960 – In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center ( NASA had already activated the facility on July 1 ).
* September 8 – In Huntsville, Alabama, U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center ( which had been activated by NASA on July 1 ).
* June 23 – NASA scientist James Hansen testifies to the Senate that man-made global warming had begun.
Grissom asserted he had done nothing to cause the hatch to blow, and NASA officials eventually concluded that he was correct.
Lobbying by the astronauts and senior NASA administrators also had an effect.
Later designs were deemed by NASA to be usable for space exploration and Los Alamos felt that it had cured the last of the materials problems with the untested Pewee.
Prior to Return to Flight, NASA Administrator Sean O ' Keefe declared that all future flights of the shuttle would go to the ISS, precluding the possibility of executing the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission which had been scheduled before the Columbia accident, despite the fact that millions of dollars worth of upgrade equipment for Hubble were ready and waiting in NASA warehouses.
In an internal e-mail apparently sent August 18, 2008 to NASA managers and leaked to the press, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin stated his belief that the Bush administration had made no viable plan for U. S. crews to participate in the International Space Station beyond 2011, and that Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ) and Office of Science and Technology Policy ( OSTP ) were actually seeking its demise.
Early during development of the space shuttle, NASA had estimated that the program would cost $ 7. 45 billion ($ 43 billion in 2011 dollars, adjusting for inflation ) in development / non-recurring costs, and $ 9. 3M ($ 54M in 2011 dollars ) per flight.
Crew members aboard NASA Space Shuttle missions had access to four types of active dosimeters should a radiation contingency occur.
A comprehensive catalog of vehicles, technology, astronauts, and flights, it includes information from most countries that have had an active rocket research program, from Robert Goddard to the NASA Space shuttle to the Soviet Shuttle Buran.
According to NASA engineer Jerry Woodfill, duct tape had been stowed on board every mission since early in the Gemini days.
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* 2006 – NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
In the early 1980s a group of researchers interested in the history of Iram used NASA remote sensing satellites, ground penetrating radar, Landsat program data and images taken from the Space Shuttle Challenger as well as SPOT data to identify old camel train routes and points where they converged.
Satellite imagery | Satellite image of Korea, taken by NASA
This image of the System / 360 Model 91 was taken by NASA sometime in the late 60s.
The overall goal of Horizon was to place a human on the Moon, a mission that would soon be taken over by the rapidly forming NASA.
** NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1.
In 2002 the museum went into bankruptcy and was taken over by a NASA contractor, whereupon the family asked for everything back.
Although the Buran spacecraft was similar in appearance to the NASA Space Shuttle, and could similarly function as a re-entry spaceplane, the main engines during launch were on the Energia rocket and not taken into orbit on the spacecraft.
File: Lava and Snow on Klyuchevskaya Volcano 2010-02-13. jpg | The eruption of February 2010 taken by NASA ASTER.
Image of Hoboken taken by NASA ( red line shows where Hoboken is ).
Credit: NASA Astronaut photograph ISS008-E-5604, taken at an altitude of 198 miles.
The stamp featured a detail of the famous photograph of the Earthrise over the moon ( NASA image AS8-14-2383HR ) taken by Anders on Christmas Eve, and the words, " In the beginning God ..."
* NASA – Huygens Probe Lands on Saturn's Moon, Titan ( on line www. youtube. com ) a video clip reconstituted from images taken by the probe during its descent ( comment: Huygens is not a Nasa programme, but ESA )
Image: 169141main piaa09178. jpg | Infrared image of the Helix Nebula, taken by the Spitzer space telescope, 2007 Credit: NASA, JPL, and K. Su ( University of Arizona )
A Solar Flare, image taken by the TRACE satellite ( photo by NASA )
Interaction with ground controllers became so strained that the crew was taken out of rotation for future missions, and none of the three flew for NASA again.
NASA moved up the spacewalk from the original schedule, to demonstrate that the US was gaining on the early lead taken by the Soviets in what was known as the Space Race.
Credit: NASA Astronaut photograph ISS008-E-5604, taken at an altitude of 198 miles.
The name has also been applied by NASA to a 2012 series of image data sets covering the entire globe at relatively high resolution, created by carefully sifting through satellite-captured sequences taken over time, to eliminate as much cloud cover as possible from the collated set of images.
In December 2006, NASA showed images taken by the Mars Global Surveyor that suggested that water occasionally flows on the surface of Mars.
He also has taken on the nickname of " Captain America ", due to his previous Air Force and NASA work experience.
Beggs served as NASA Administrator until December 1985, when he took an indefinite leave of absence pending disposition of an indictment for contract fraud from the U. S. Justice Department for activities alleged by the Defense Department to have taken place prior to his tenure at NASA.
The approach taken by Tintin's rocket is what NASA called a " direct ascent ".
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