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ATS-3. First full-disk "true color" [ 41] picture of the Earth; [ 42] subsequently used on the cover of the first Whole Earth Catalog. [ 43][ 42] December 21, 1968. Apollo 8. First full-disk image of Earth from space taken by a person, probably by astronaut William Anders. [ 44] December 24, 1968.
In 1947, the US sent the first animals in space, fruit flies, although not into orbit, through a V-2 rocket launched from White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. [13] [14] [15] On June 14, 1949, the US launched the first mammal into space, a rhesus macaque monkey named Albert II, on a sub-orbital flight. [16]
Inspiration4. / 28.8; -80.3. Inspiration4 (stylized as Inspiratiā£n) was a 2021 human spaceflight operated by SpaceX on behalf of Shift4 Payments CEO Jared Isaacman. [ 3] The mission launched the Crew Dragon Resilience on 16 September 2021 at 00:02:56 UTC [ a] from Kennedy Space Center 's Launch Complex 39A atop a Falcon 9 launch vehicle.
The overview effect is a cognitive shift [ Note 1] reported by some astronauts while viewing the Earth from space. [ 2] Researchers have characterized the effect as "a state of awe with self-transcendent qualities, precipitated by a particularly striking visual stimulus". [ 3] The most prominent common aspects of personally experiencing the ...
First rocket engine fired in space. USA (NASA) Pioneer P-30 [9] 31 January 1961: First hominidae in space (chimpanzee Ham). First tasks performed in space. USA (NASA) M-R 2: 12 February 1961: First launch from Earth orbit of upper stage into a heliocentric orbit. First mid-course corrections. First spin-stabilisation. USSR Venera 1: 12 April 1961
Destination Moon. (film) Destination Moon (a.k.a. Operation Moon) is a 1950 American Technicolor science fiction film, independently produced by George Pal and directed by Irving Pichel, that stars John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, and Dick Wesson. The film was distributed in the United States and the United Kingdom by Eagle-Lion Classics .
2010: The Year We Make Contact (or simply 2010) is a 1984 American science fiction film written, produced, shot and directed by Peter Hyams.Serving as a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and based on Arthur C. Clarke's 1982 sequel novel, 2010: Odyssey Two, the film follows a joint American and Soviet crew who are sent to Jupiter to discover the reason behind the ...
The year 1966 saw the peak and the end of the Gemini program. The program proved that docking in space and human EVA's could be done safely. It saw the first launch of the Saturn IB rocket, an important step in the Apollo program, and the launch of Luna 9, the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on a celestial object (the Moon).