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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
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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. |
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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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