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John Howard
Casper flew on four Space Shuttle
missions, including one which performed a record
number of rendezvous sequences. He also took part
in NASA's effort to resume operations following
the Shuttle Columbia accident in
February 2003. |
The Mir Space
Station was the first consistently
inhabited long-term research space station.
Launched into orbit on February 20, 1986, the
station was almost continuously inhabited until
March 23, 2001, when it was de-orbited. |
Luna
was the name of a series of lunar probes launched
by the Soviet Union between 1959 and 1976. They were the first man-made objects to
attain escape velocity, to impact on the moon, to
photograph the "dark side" of the Moon,
to soft-land on the moon, to retrieve lunar
samples and return them to Earth, and to deploy a
rover on the Moon's surface. |
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