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spacecraft and interiors
) Another viewscreen, the Hexfield, similarly provided two-way transmissions to spacecraft interiors and other locations.

spacecraft and were
The LOC also included an Operations and Checkout Building ( OCB ), to which Gemini and Apollo spacecraft were initially received prior to being mated to their launch vehicles.
During the delay, the spacesuits, a spacecraft separation mechanism and batteries in the Lunar Module ( LM ) were modified and tested.
At this point during the pre-mission preparations, the Saturn V rocket's three stages were powered up and drinking water was pumped into the spacecraft.
On 15 April, liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellants were pumped into the spacecraft, while the astronauts rested in anticipation of their launch the next day.
As the Apollo 16 spacecraft was not due to arrive in lunar orbit until flight day four, flight days two and three were largely preparatory days, consisting of spacecraft maintenance and scientific research.
The crew performed the Apollo light flash experiment, or ALFMED, to investigate " light flashes " that were seen by the astronauts when the spacecraft was dark, regardless of whether or not their eyes were open, on Apollo lunar flights.
The spacecraft and its three-person crew were retrieved by the.
Such images were of higher resolution than the only previous pictures, of Halley's Comet taken by the Giotto spacecraft.
On January 16, 1969, the Soviet Union achieved the first EVA crew transfer from one spacecraft to another when Aleksei Yeliseyev and Yevgeny Khrunov transferred from Soyuz 5 to Soyuz 4, which were docked together.
The first EVA repairs of a spacecraft were made by Charles " Pete " Conrad, Joseph Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz on May 26, June 7 and June 19, 1973, on the Skylab 2 mission.
The radiation environment near Io in particular was very unhealthy for Galileos systems, and so these flybys were saved for the extended mission when loss of the spacecraft would be more acceptable.
NASA engineers were able to recover the damaged tape recorder electronics, and Galileo continued to return scientific data until it was deorbited in 2003, performing one last scientific experiment — a measurement of the moon Amalthea's mass as the spacecraft swung by it.
The other section of the spacecraft was an antenna, and data were periodically transmitted to it.
There were two BUMs and two DBUMs in the CDH subsystem and they all resided on the spun side of the spacecraft.
Scientific instruments to measure fields and particles were mounted on the spinning section of the spacecraft, together with the main antenna, power supply, the propulsion module and most of Galileos computers and control electronics.
Because of their small size, it was said that the Mercury spacecraft were worn, not ridden.
Some spacecraft were modified after initial production ( refurbished after launch abort, modified for longer missions, etc.
Some spacecraft were modified twice ; for example, spacecraft 15 became 15A and then 15B.
A number of Mercury boilerplate spacecraft ( including mockup / prototype / replica spacecraft, made from non-flight materials or lacking production spacecraft systems and / or hardware ) were also made by NASA and McDonnell Aircraft.
They were designed and used to test spacecraft recovery systems, and escape tower and rocket motors.

spacecraft and shot
The closing scene of the television version, in which Quatermass pleads with humanity to prevent Earth's becoming the " second dead planet ", was also dropped, in favour of a shot of Quatermass and Judd sitting alone amid the devastation wrought by the Martian spacecraft.
The smuggled DNA is extracted from him and used to grow The Lexx, a living, sentient spacecraft able to destroy entire planets with a single devastating shot.
After confronting the Marine who had shot him, Scott ' Snake ' Kaplan, and preventing him from killing Mother, he learned that the Intelligence Convergence Group ( ICG ), a secretive and insidious government intelligence organisation dedicated to maintaining America's technological superiority at any cost, was preparing to seize the spacecraft and kill Schofield and his team to prevent them from spreading word about the spacecraft.
This was a low budget film with little action and few special effects, with the shot of the alien spacecraft being reused footage of the flying saucer from Earth Vs.

spacecraft and aboard
* 1970 – An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon.
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.
The crew carried out various housekeeping and maintenance tasks aboard the spacecraft and ate a meal before concluding the day.
* Ion and Neutral Camera ( INCA ), an instrument aboard the Cassini – Huygens spacecraft
* 2010 – JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket.
* Space Marine, in science fiction, a soldier who serves aboard a spacecraft and / or who is trained to fight in space or in planetary attacks
The Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment, which was developed by the Planetary Society, intended to send selected microorganisms on a three-year interplanetary round-trip in a small capsule aboard the Russian Fobos-Grunt spacecraft in 2011.
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth aboard Vostok 1 manned spacecraft on 12 April 1961.
* 1988 – Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz TM-5 after 9 days on the Mir space station.
The Prisoner 849 is aboard the prison spacecraft Vortex Rikers.
NASA reported the detection of water molecules by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper aboard the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft in September 2009.
** After a successful mission aboard Salyut 1, the world's first manned space station, the crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply leaks out through a faulty valve.
Still, controversy remained, and fellow Mercury astronaut Wally Schirra, at the end of his October 3, 1962 flight, remained inside his spacecraft until it was safely aboard the recovery ship, and made a point of deliberately blowing the hatch to get out, bruising his hand.
The President, his daughter, portions of his Cabinet and the Levinsons narrowly escape aboard Air Force One as the alien spacecraft destroy Washington D. C., New York City, Los Angeles and other cities around the world.
The publicized price for flights brokered by Space Adventures to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft have been US $ 20 – 35 million, during the period 2001 – 2009.
A two-way distance record for communication was set by the Mercury laser altimeter instrument aboard the MESSENGER spacecraft.
Geomagnetic storms due to increased solar activity can potentially blind sensors aboard spacecraft, or interfere with on-board electronics.
On May 22, 2012, a small urn containing some of Doohan's remains in ash form was flown into space aboard the Dragon spacecraft as part of COTS Demo Flight 2.
Instruments aboard the spacecraft included a Lyman-alpha telescope, a rubidium-vapor magnetometer, electrostatic analyzers, medium-energy range particle detectors, two triple coincidence telescopes, a cosmic-ray integrating ionization chamber, cosmic dust detectors, and solar X-ray scintillation counters.
At that time, some astronauts decide to be hoisted aboard a helicopter for a ride to the recovery ship and some decided to stay with the spacecraft and be lifted aboard ship via crane.
Red Mars starts in 2026 with the first colonial voyage to Mars aboard the Ares, the largest interplanetary spacecraft ever built ( interestingly, from clustered space shuttle external fuel tanks which, instead of incinerating in the atmosphere, have been boosted into orbit until enough had been amassed to build a ship and also used as landing craft ) and home to a crew who are to be the first hundred Martian colonists.
The Voyager Golden Records are phonograph records which were included aboard both Voyager spacecraft, which were launched in 1977.
The Galileo spacecraft was launched by NASA in 1989 aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis.
The player takes control of an alien ( who bears a striking resemblance to the race of aliens from the Alien series of films ) aboard a huge spacecraft filled with many extraterrestrial creatures.

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