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Apollo–Soyuz was the first crewed international space mission, carried out jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union in July 1975. Millions of people around the world watched on television as an American Apollo spacecraft docked with a Soviet Soyuz capsule. The project, and its handshake in space, was a symbol of détente between 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
Created. 3 August 1492 — 15 March 1493. Present location. Unknown, presumed lost. Christopher Columbus's journal (Diario) is a diary and logbook written by Christopher Columbus about his first voyage. The journal covers events from 3 August 1492, when Columbus departed from Palos de la Frontera, to 15 March 1493 and includes a prologue ...
NASA delivers the most visible elements of the U.S. space program. From crewed space exploration and the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon, to the Space Shuttle, International Space Station, Voyager, the Mars rovers, numerous space telescopes, and the Artemis program, NASA delivers on the civil space exploration mandate.
Photojournalism is journalism that uses images to tell a news story. It usually only refers to still images, but can also refer to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (such as documentary photography, social documentary photography, war photography, street photography and ...
Space Shuttle Endeavour docked to the International Space Station, by NASA/Paolo Nespoli (edited by Mikael Häggström) Galileo launch , by the German Aerospace Center Apollo 13 's damaged Service Module , by NASA
An example of food eaten on the International Space Station. Note the use of magnets, springs, and Velcro to hold the cutlery and food packets to the tray. Food and tray from the Skylab era (1973–74) Space food is a type of food product created and processed for consumption by astronauts during missions to outer space.
Updated August 8, 2024 at 3:02 AM. NASA is considering keeping the two astronauts who flew Boeing's capsule to the International Space Station there until February as a result of issues the ...