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Apollo 4 →. Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was planned to be the first crewed mission of the Apollo program,[1]the American undertaking to land the first man on the Moon. It was planned to launch on February 21, 1967, as the first low Earth orbitaltest of the Apollo command and service module. The mission never flew; a cabin fire ...
On May 4, 1988, a fire followed by several explosions occurred at the Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada (PEPCON) chemical plant in Henderson, Nevada. The disaster caused two fatalities, 372 injuries, and an estimated $100 million of damage. A large portion of the Las Vegas Valley within a 10-mile (16 km) radius of the plant ...
This function still exists in the final release (version 1.01); however, due to the remaining detailed text messages being removed, the screen instead mostly prints out random characters. [4] It is not a crash screen, however; upon crashing, Windows 1.0 would simply lock up or exit to DOS.
The global and US anti-doping agencies are at odds over undercover tactics used by the American body to try to catch drug cheats, Reuters has learned. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) says US ...
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia will begin co-manufacturing guided weapons with the US next year to boost supply for allies in the Indo Pacific and increase a US military presence in the country ...
Zone 5 uses eight 2-digit codes (51–58) and two sets of 3-digit codes (50x, 59x) to serve South and Central America. Zone 6 uses seven 2-digit codes (60–66) and three sets of 3-digit codes (67x–69x) to serve Southeast Asia and Oceania. Zone 7 uses an integrated numbering plan; two digits (7x) determine the area served: Russia or Kazakhstan.
Sidewheel boat; each wheel had 26 paddles and was 31 ft (9.4 m) in diameter. Speed. 16 knots (30 km/h) Crew. 22. The PS General Slocum [note 1] was a sidewheel passenger steamboat built in Brooklyn, New York, in 1891. During her service history, she was involved in a number of mishaps, including multiple groundings and collisions.
Soil texture is a classification instrument used both in the field and laboratory to determine soil classes based on their physical texture. Soil texture can be determined using qualitative methods such as texture by feel, and quantitative methods such as the hydrometer method based on Stokes' law .