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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.
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The first American spacewalk was performed on June 3, 1965 by Edward H. White, II from the second manned Gemini flight, Gemini 4, for 21 minutes, on a tether.
* 1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.
* November 14 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12 ( Pete Conrad, Richard Gordon, Alan Bean ), the second manned mission to the Moon.
* November 24 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.
** The Soviet manned space mission Soyuz 18a ends in failure during its ascent into orbit when a critical malfunction occurs in the second and third stages of the booster rocket during staging, resulting with the cosmonauts and their Soyuz spacecraft having to be ripped free from the vehicle.
Grissom was surrounded by reporters in a news conference after his space flight in America's second manned ship.
In March 1966 he was selected as Senior Pilot ( second seat ) for the first manned Apollo flight, designated AS-204, along with Command Pilot Virgil " Gus " Grissom, who had flown in space on the Mercury 4 Liberty Bell 7 mission and as commander of the Gemini 3 Molly Brown mission, and Pilot Roger Chaffee, who had yet to fly into space.
During the Persian invasion of 480 BC it manned the second largest Greek fleet ( 60 ships ), but took no active part in the war.
Borman was selected in late 1966 to command the third manned Apollo mission, planned as an elliptical medium Earth orbit test of the second manned Lunar Module ( LM ) on the first manned launch of the Saturn V lunar rocket sometime in 1967 or early 1968.
The backup crew for the second manned Apollo flight.
Shortly after Gemini 10, Collins was assigned to the backup crew for the second manned Apollo flight, with commander Frank Borman, command module pilot ( CMP ) Thomas Stafford and Collins as lunar module pilot ( LMP ).
He made his first flight into space aboard Apollo 12, the second manned mission to land on the Moon, at the age of thirty-seven years in November 1969.
He made his second and final flight into space on the Skylab 3 mission in 1973, the second manned mission to the Skylab space station.
STS-9's six-member crew, the largest of any manned space mission at the time, included John W. Young, commander, on his second shuttle flight ; Brewster H. Shaw, pilot ; Owen Garriott and Robert A. Parker, both mission specialists ; and Byron K. Lichtenberg and Ulf Merbold, payload specialists-the first two non-NASA astronauts to fly on the Space Shuttle.
It thus marked the first time ever that a manned, reusable orbital spacecraft left the Earth for its second mission and returned to space.
The flight marked the first time an orbital manned space vehicle had been re-flown with a second crew.
The second series of test spacecraft being a precursor to manned circumlunar loop flights used a stripped-down variant of Soyuz spacecraft, consisting of the service and descent modules, but lacking the orbital module.
Soyuz 18 (, Union 18 ) was a 1975 Soviet manned mission to Salyut 4, the second and final crew to man the space station.
The maned spacecraft Soyuz 1 was launched with the expectation of " union " with the manned Soyuz 2 craft, but even before the second craft was launched, it became apparent that the Soyuz 2 mission had to be canceled before the landing of Soyuz 1 – this saved the lives of the crew of Soyuz 2.
Gemini 3 was the first manned mission in NASA's Gemini program, the second American manned space program.
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* 1989 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the second to last planet in the Solar System at the time.
The first and second stages of the Saturn V rocket performed nominally ; the spacecraft, along with the mission's three crew members aboard, successfully entered orbit around Earth just under twelve minutes after lift-off.
* 2010 – With the second launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 and the first launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first privately held company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.
Once the spacecraft arrives, a second application of thrust will re-circularize the orbit at the new location.
In the event of a launch abort, the LES would fire for one second, pulling the spacecraft and astronaut away from the launch vehicle and a possible explosion.
After a successful liftoff, the spacecraft fired three small clustered solid-fuel, 400 lbf ( 1. 8 kN ) thrust rockets for 1 second to separate the spacecraft from the launch vehicle.
The initial burn put the spacecraft into an Earth parking orbit and the second burn from 15: 02: 53 to 15: 04: 28 injected the craft into a Mars transfer orbit.
For example, a ramjet might collect 1 gram of incoming ions per second from interstellar space beyond the heliopause, at a velocity of 50 km / s relative to the ramjet driven spacecraft.
* Aurora 7, a nickname for the Mercury-Atlas 7, the second American spacecraft to orbit the earth
The Luna 21 spacecraft landed on the Moon and deployed the second Soviet lunar rover, Lunokhod 2.
The Luna 21 spacecraft landed on the Moon and deployed the second Soviet lunar rover ( Lunokhod 2 ) in January, 1973.
The civilian stations Salyut 6 and Salyut 7 were built with two docking ports, which allowed a second crew to visit, bringing a new spacecraft with them ; the Soyuz ferry could spend 90 days in space, after which point it needed to be replaced by a fresh Soyuz spacecraft.
Each spacecraft has a gamma-ray detector, with readouts noted in tiny fractions of a second.
The first launch attempt on 16 February 1986 was scrubbed when the spacecraft communications failed, but the second launch attempt, on 19 February 1986 at 21: 28: 23 UTC, was successful, meeting the political deadline.
First generation stations such as Salyut 1 and Skylab had monolithic designs, consisting of one module with no resupply capability, whilst the second generation stations Salyut 6 and Salyut 7 comprised a monolithic station with two ports to allow consumables to be replenished by cargo spacecraft such as Progress.
Sputnik 2 (,, Satellite 2 ), or ' Prosteyshiy Sputnik 2 ( PS-2, Elementary Satellite 2 )), was the second spacecraft launched into Earth orbit, on November 3, 1957, and the first to carry a living animal, a dog named Laika.
The spacecraft was to be spin-stabilized at 1. 8 revolutions per second, the spin direction approximately perpendicular to the geomagnetic meridian planes of the trajectory.
Luna 2 ( E-1A series ) was the second of the Soviet Union's Luna programme spacecraft launched to the Moon.
Luna 4 ( E-6 series ) was the USSR's first successful spacecraft of their " second generation " Luna program.
The Venera 1 spacecraft was the second of two attempts to launch a probe to Venus, immediately following the launch of its sister ship Venera-1VA, which failed to leave Earth orbit.
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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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