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Pete Conrad (1930 - 1999)
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Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr. (June 2, 1930 - July 8, 1999) was an American engineer, U.S. Navy officer and NASA astronaut, and the third person to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 12 mission. He set an eight-day space endurance record along with command pilot Gordon Cooper on the Gemini 5 mi...
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Heather Couper
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Heather Anita Couper CBE CPhys (born 2 June 1949) is a British astronomer who popularised astronomy in the 1980s and 1990s on British television. She is a former president of the British Astronomical Association from 1984 to 1986. She is the astronomy correspondent for The Independent newspaper....
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Georgiy Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky (1928 - 1971)
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Georgiy Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky (June 1, 1928 - June 30, 1971) was a Soviet cosmonaut. He flew on the Soyuz 11 mission and had the unfortunate distinction of being part of the second Soviet crew to die during a space flight (after Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov in Soyuz 1). Read more[video=http:...
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Alexander Valentinovich Zakharov
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Alexander Valentinovich Zakharov (born June 1, 1941) is a Soviet and Russian chief scientist and astronomer serving at the Russian Space Research Institute (IKI). He was a lead scientist of the failed Mars missions, Mars 96 and Fobos-Grunt. Read more
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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796 - 1832)
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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1 June 1796 - 24 August 1832) was a French military engineer who, in his 1824 book Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire, gave the first successful theoretical account of heat engines, now known as the Carnot cycle; his book also laid the foundations for the second law of...
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Brian Denis Cox
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Brian Denis Cox, CBE (born 1 June 1946) is a Scottish actor. He is known for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he gained recognition for his portrayal of King Lear. He has also appeared in many Hollywood productions playing parts such as Dr. Guggenheim in Rushmore, William Stryker in...
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Kip Thorne
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Kip Thorne - The warped side of the universe Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist, known for his prolific contributions in gravitation physics and astrophysics and for having trained a generation of...
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Janet Horne (? - 1727)
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Janet Horne (died 1727) was a Scottish alleged witch, the last person to be executed for witchcraft in Great Britain. Janet Horne and her daughter were arrested in Dornoch in Scotland and imprisoned on the accusations of her neighbours. Read more
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John Ellard Gore
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Title: John Ellard Gore: of immensity and minuteness Authors: Jeremy Shears John Ellard Gore FRAS, MRIA (1845-1910) was an Irish amateur astronomer and prolific author of popular astronomy books. His main observational interest was variable stars, of which he discovered several, and he served...
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Jane Luu
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Jane Luu (a.k.a. Jane X. Luu) is a Vietnamese American astronomer. As a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she worked with David C. Jewitt to discover the Kuiper Belt. In 1992, after five years of observation, they found the f...
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David C. Jewitt
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David C. Jewitt is a professor of astronomy formerly at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, now at UCLA. He was born in 1958 in England, and is a 1979 graduate of the University of London. Jewitt received an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in astronomy at the California Institute of Technology in 1980 a...
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John Robert Schrieffer
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John Robert Schrieffer (born May 31, 1931) is an American physicist and, with John Bardeen and Leon N Cooper, recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics for developing the BCS theory, the first successful microscopic theory of superconductivity. Read more
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Helen Sharman
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Helen Patricia Sharman, OBE PhD (born 30 May 1963), is a British chemist. She was the first Briton in space, visiting the Mir space station aboard Soyuz TM-12 in 1991. Read more
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Michael López-Alegría
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Michael Eladio "LA" López-Alegría (also known as Miguel López-Alegría) b. May 30, 1958, is a Spanish-American astronaut; a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and one International Space Station mission. He is known for having performed ten EVAs so far in his career, presently ho...
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Hannes Alfvén (1908 - 1995)
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Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (born 30 May 1908 in Norrköping, Sweden; died 2 April 1995 in Djursholm, Sweden) was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). He described the class of MHD waves now known as Alf...
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