One had taken a flight into uncharted space, in the service of science, to return as a living hero.

* 1961 – The Russian ( Soviet ) cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 ( Vostok 1 ).

* Albert II, second monkey in space, died on impact following V2 flight June 14, 1949.

* 1981 – STS-1 – The first operational space shuttle, Columbia ( OV-102 ) completes its first test flight.

STS-93 was Coleman's second space flight in 1999.

In completing her first space flight, Coleman orbited the Earth 256 times, traveled over 6 million miles, and logged a total of 15 days, 21 hours, 52 minutes and 21 seconds in space.

Control systems play a critical role in space flight

Control systems play a critical role in space flight.

After the flight, he claimed this was easy, but his space suit ballooned from its internal pressure against the vacuum of space, stiffening so much that he could not activate the shutter on his chest-mounted camera.

Finally, on November 13, 1966, Edwin " Buzz " Aldrin became the first to successfully work in space without tiring, on the Gemini 12 last flight.

The Explorer program is a United States space exploration program that provides flight opportunities for physics, heliophysics, and astrophysics investigations from space.

The Explorers Program Office at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, provides management of the multiple scientific exploration missions in the Explorer space flight program.

Includes two novels by George Griffith, articles and stories by several authors, and game worlds based on flight ( and a war on the supernatural ), automata and calculating engines, space travel, and time travel.

While there, he was one of eight delegates with a background in guided weapons projects to address the Fourth International Congress of Astronautics in Zurich in August 1953, at a time when, as The New York Times reported, most scientists saw space flight as thinly disguised science fiction.

In March 1970 he became the first of the scientist-astronauts to be assigned to space flight, joining Richard F. Gordon, Jr. ( Commander ) and Vance Brand ( Command Module Pilot ) on the Apollo 15 backup crew.

Similarly, if space is not described uniformly or time independently, a coordinate system could describe the simple flight of a free body in space as a complicated zig-zag in its coordinate system.

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.

A small monument in her honour was built near the military research facility in Moscow which prepared Laika's flight to space.

* 1961 – The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.

In the suborbital flight, the space craft went directly from launch to re-entry at the highest point ( point E on the picture ); in the orbital mission on the other hand, the craft went into an orbit around the Earth.

The USA had lost the first round of the space race to the Soviets ; however, the FAI rules in 1961 required that a pilot must land safely with the spacecraft for the flight to be considered an official spaceflight.

During the autumn of 1909 Picasso sculpted Head of a Woman ( Fernande ) with positive features depicted by negative space and vice versa.

Between 1995 and 1997 a number of proposals were considered, including the redevelopment of the previous Group Head Office at 10 Lower Thames Street, London, however the DS-2 plot at Canary Wharf was chosen for the location and space available.

:" The space in front of the Tiger's Head and the Green were very commodious for the transfer of baggage to the waggons of the farmers from the other side of London to those of the farmers in this neighbourhood which were pressed for that purpose, to convey them 15 miles further on the journey to Dover.

Currently there is only space for one more name, and the Head Master enjoys telling incoming students that if they work hard enough, one of their names might end up on " The Wall " some day.

His technical assignments included: scientific equipment operator for high altitude research on the WB-57F aircraft ( 1980 – 1981 ); astronaut medical support for the first four Shuttle missions ( 1980 – 1982 ); astronaut office representative for Extravehicular Mobility Unit ( spacesuit ) and Extravehicular Activity ( EVA ) procedures and development, including thermal vacuum testing of the suit ( 1981 – 1984 ); astronaut office representative for the Payload Assist Module ( PAM-D ) procedures and development ( 1982 – 1983 ); astronaut office representative for Shuttle Mission Simulator ( SMS ) development ( 1983 ); support crewman for STS-8 ; CAPCOM for STS-8 and STS-9 ; Remote Manipulator System ( RMS ) hardware and software development team ( 1983 ); Manned Maneuvering Unit ( MMU ) development team ( 1983 ); Deputy Director of NASA Government-furnished and Contractor-furnished Equipment ( 1982 – 1983 ); Chief of Astronaut Public Appearances ( 1985 – 1987 ); Head, Astronaut Office Space Station Manned Systems Division, and Health Maintenance Facility ( 1987 – 1989 ); Astronaut Office representative on space crew selection and retention standards for Space Station ( 1989 – 1991 ).

The open space at the Pier Head has also seen several developments.

Taken from Ferrando's page on Discogs, "... He defines In Head as ' My ideal space to share my music vision along with top songwriters and producers around the globe.

Head coach Knute Rockne played a key role in its design, keeping the space between the playing field and the stands to a minimum.

* A similar rhythm preset, Rock-2, features in the first half of The Man Whose Head Expanded by The Fall, only to be cut short by Mark E. Smith's command to " turn that bloody blimey space invader off ".

The ten-year series of Statehood Quarters, whose issue began in 1999, however, was seen as calling for more space and more flexibility in the design of the reverse.

It had limited power supply, drinking water supply not available from water treatment plant situated at Domgarh, spacious Quarters with lawns in front and space for garden in the backyard, trees like gulmohor, Kadam, Nim, Chhatim flanked the streets.

Planes defined as parallel to the surface also cut through it into real space, and a depth is suggested optically which is greater than that established pictorially.

A succinct data structure is one which takes the absolute minimum possible space, as established by information theoretical lower bounds.

These arguments, and a discussion of the distinctions between absolute and relative time, space, place and motion, appear in a Scholium at the very beginning of Newton's work, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy ( 1687 ), which established the foundations of classical mechanics and introduced his law of universal gravitation, which yielded the first quantitatively adequate dynamical explanation of planetary motion.

Newcomers to a market may find it difficult to find loans, acquire shelf space, or receive official sanction to sell their product or services ; in technological fields, they may be accused of infringing on patents that the established competitors never assert against each other.

DARPA ’ s original mission, established in 1958, was to prevent technological surprise like the launch of Sputnik, which signaled that the Soviets had beaten the U. S. into space.

He became a leading figure in early space research, was involved in the development of earth observation satellites, and in 1962 established the National Weather Bureau's Satellite Service Center.

With relations first established with the PRC in 1980, Kiribati had been the home to a satellite tracking base for China's space program from 1997 until 2003, a week before ties were formally severed.

Another unaffiliated group, Media Study Group, established seven categories of poor journalistic practice: for example, the journalist stating personal opinion in a report, asserting incorrect facts, applying unequal space or treatment to two sides of a controversial issue ; then analyzed The Age Newspaper ( Melbourne Australia ) for the frequency of infraction of this code of practice.

As the proton concentration increases in the intermembrane space, a strong electrochemical gradient is established across the inner membrane.

The Society was formally established in August 1998, when over 700 delegates – astronomers, scientists, engineers, astronauts, entrepreneurs, educators, students, and space enthusiasts – attended a weekend of talks and presentations from leading Mars exploration advocates.

Once this connection is established, meteorite material can be studied with large, complex, and evolving equipment, and the results extrapolated to bodies in space.

A gleam of hope is presented at Weedpatch Camp, one of the clean, utility-supplied camps operated by the Resettlement Administration, a New Deal agency that has been established to help the migrants, but there is not enough money and space to care for all of the needy.

Once the probability space is established, it is assumed that “ nature ” makes its move and selects a single outcome, ω, from the sample space Ω.

Before taking the auspicia impetrativa (" requested " or " sought " auspices ; see below ) the templum, or sacred space within which the operation would take place had to be established and delimited ( it should be square and have only one entrance ) and purified ( effari, liberare ).

In 1880, a Steinway-Haus was established in Hamburg as a sales showroom with concert halls, practice studios, sales departments and piano storage space.

This property must be established as a theorem for any function proposed for such purposes for each particular space: for example, spaces such as the real numbers, Euclidean spaces, the L < sup > p </ sup > spaces ( p ≥ 1 ), and inner product spaces.

In imitation of the land-grant colleges ' focus on agricultural and mechanical research, Congress later established programs of sea grant colleges ( aquatic research, in 1966 ), urban grant colleges ( urban research, in 1985 ), space grant colleges ( space research, in 1988 ), and sun grant colleges ( sustainable energy research, in 2003 ).

In 2004 the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety was established in the Netherlands to further international cooperation and scientific advancement in space systems safety.

The deep space setting of XvT, along with the conventions established in earlier titles, required that information about all craft be available to all players all of the time.

Some find the conditions quite favorable and have established self-sustaining populations, competing for food and space with native animals.

Digital television and DVDs preserve their compressed video streams in the MPEG-2 format, which uses a full Y ' CbCr color space, although retaining the established process of chroma subsampling.

Matra Marconi Space was established in 1990 as a joint venture between the space and telecommunication divisions of the Lagardère Group ( Matra Espace ) and the GEC group ( Marconi Space Systems ).