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Science and technology have always preoccupied China’s leaders and indeed, China’s political leadership comes almost exclusively from technical backgrounds and has a high regard for science. Deng Xiaoping called it “the first productive force.” In recent times, with Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao and their predecessors Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji all being trained engineers, [...]
* January 5 – President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program. * February 4 – Mariner 9 sends pictures from Mars * February 21 – The Soviet unmanned spacecraft Luna 20 lands on the Moon. * March 2 – Launch of Pioneer 10 spacecraft. * April 16 [...]
* December 2 – STS-61 is launched – This Space Shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) installed corrective optics, plus upgrades, that not only allowed the telescope to focus properly, but also increased magnification/clarity beyond the original design: HST had been pre-designed for such future upgrades (see: continuous improvement). * February 13 – [...]
During early shuttle development there was great debate about the optimal shuttle design that best balanced capability, development cost and operating cost. Ultimately the current design was chosen, using a reusable winged orbiter, reusable solid rocket boosters, and an expendable external tank. The shuttle program was formally launched on January 5, 1972, when President Nixon [...]
Space Shuttle ”Explorer” is a full-scale replica of a Space Shuttle. The ”Explorer” includes replicas of the interior spaces. It is located at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex and is accessible by tourists. ”Explorer” is displayed alongside a gantry-style tower (which includes an elevator for accessibility) and visitors may view a mock-up payload, a [...]
Ultraviolet astronomy is generally used to refer to observations of electromagnetic radiation at ultraviolet wavelengths between approximately 10 and 320 nanometres; shorter wavelengths—higher energy photons—are studied by X-ray astronomy and gamma ray astronomy. Light at these wavelengths is absorbed by the Earth’s atmosphere, so observations at these wavelengths must be performed from the upper atmosphere [...]
* September 29 – NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster. * November 15 – In the Soviet Union, the uncrewed Shuttle ”Buran” is launched by an Energia rocket on her maiden orbital spaceflight (this was the first and last space flight for the shuttle). *Asteroid 3994 Ayashi is discovered by Masahiro [...]
Space Shuttle ”Atlantis” (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-104) is a Space Shuttle orbiter belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States (the other two surviving Space Shuttles are the ”Discovery” and the ”Endeavour”). The ”Atlantis” was the fourth operational (and the next-to-the-last) Space Shuttle to [...]
Information industry The information industry has become China’s economic mainstay. In 2004, the added value of China’s information industry, the world’s third largest, stood at 950 billion yuan. Output value, sales and profits of electronic and telecoms manufacturing all outstripped those of traditional industries, making the greatest contribution to national economic growth. By the end [...]
Individual Space Shuttle Orbiters are named in honor of antique sailing ships of the navies of the world, and they are also numbered using the NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation system. While all of the Orbiters are externally practically identical, they have minor differences in their interiors. New equipment for the Orbiters is installed in the [...]
The first goal of the SEA was to work toward receiving broad Congressional support for the new national Vision for Space Exploration outside of low-earth orbit, which the SEA refers to as “Moon, Mars and Beyond”. The SEA began their effort by working together on a “Moon-Mars Blitz” campaign on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. [...]
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