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Gemini 8 mission
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Gemini 8 (officially Gemini VIII) was the sixth manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. The mission was launch on the 16th March, 1966, and conducted the first docking of two spacecraft in orbit, but suffered the first critical in-space system failure of a U.S. spacecraft which threatened th...
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Robotic Refuelling Mission
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NASA and CSA Robotic Operations Advance Satellite Servicing NASA's Robotic Refuelling Mission (RRM) experiment aboard the International Space Station has demonstrated remotely controlled robots and specialised tools can perform precise satellite-servicing tasks in space. The project...
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Pioneer 5
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Pioneer 5 (also known as 1960 Alpha 1, Pioneer P-2, and Thor Able 4) was a spin-stabilized space probe in the NASA Pioneer program used to investigate interplanetary space between the orbits of Earth and Venus. It was launched on March 11, 1960 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17a...
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Suisei spaceprobe
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Suisei (Japanese for Comet), originally known as Planet-A, was an unmanned space probe developed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (now part of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA). It constituted a part of the Halley Armada together with Sakigake, the Soviet/F...
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STS-62
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Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia16) was launched on the 4th March, 1994.
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AS-201 mission
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AS-201 (or SA-201), flown February 26, 1966, was the first unmanned test flight of an entire production Block I Apollo Command/Service Module and the Saturn IB launch vehicle. Read more
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Kosmos 110 mission
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Anniversary (1966) of the Kosmos 110 Launch, on the 22nd February, 2011. Kosmos 110 was a Soviet spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard a Soyuz rocket. It incorporated a re-entry body (capsule) for landing scientific instruments and test objects. It was a biological satellite t...
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GOWON
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Title: Gone with the Wind ON_Mars (GOWON): A Wind-Driven Networked System of Mobile Sensors on Mars Authors: Faranak Davoodi, Ali Hajimiri, Neil Murphy, Michael Mischna, Issa Nesnas, Shouleh Nikzad We propose a revolutionary way of studying the surface of Mars using a wind-driven network of mob...
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Indian Venus mission
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India planning Venus mission An Indian scientific mission to Venus is being considered by the space community. This was announced by M S Anurup of Isro at the 17th National Space Science Symposium which has been jointly organised by Isro and Sri Venkateshwara University. [url=http://timesofind...
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NEAR spacecraft
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The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous - Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), renamed after its 1996 launch in honour of planetary scientist Eugene M. Shoemaker, is a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros from c...
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ATV Georges Lemaître
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Fifth ATV named after Georges Lemaître ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATVs) are an essential contribution by Europe to running the International Space Station. Naming the fifth after Belgian scientist Georges Lemaître continues the tradition of drawing on great European visionaries to...
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Solar Maximum Mission satellite
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The Solar Maximum Mission satellite (or SolarMax) was designed to investigate solar phenomenon, particularly solar flares. It was launched on February 14, 1980. Read more
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Luna 20
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Luna 20 (Ye-8-5 series) was the second of three successful Soviet lunar sample return missions. It was flown as part of the Luna program, also called Lunik 20, as a robotic competitor to the six successful Apollo lunar sample return missions. Luna 20 was placed in an intermediate Earth parking orbit...
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Lunar Orbiter 3
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Lunar Orbiter 3 Launched (1967) The Lunar Orbiter 3 was a spacecraft launched by NASA in 1967, designed primarily to photograph areas of the lunar surface for confirmation of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. It was also equipped to collect selenodetic, radiation intensity...
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STS-41-B mission
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STS-41-B was the tenth space shuttle mission, and the fourth flight for Challenger. Liftoff occurred at 8 a.m. EST, on 3 February 1984. Two communications satellites were deployed about 8 hours after launch. One was for Western Union (WESTAR) and the other for Indonesia (Palapa B-2). [url=http:/...
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