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"No offense to any Muslamic people - but didn't it say in the Torah to execute people of other religions?"
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"I actually know how to play this on my alto sax... it's a little hard with all the accidentals :)"
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CBS Walter Cronkite coverage this big moment of US history. INFO WIKIPEDIA: CAPE CANAVERAL, John Glenn boarded the Friendship 7 spacecraft at 11:...
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CBS Walter Cronkite coverage this big moment of US history. INFO WIKIPEDIA: CAPE CANAVERAL, John Glenn boarded the Friendship 7 spacecraft at 11:03 UTC on February 20, 1962. The hatch was bolted in place at 12:10 UTC. Most of the 70 hatch bolts had been secured, when one was discovered to be broken. This caused a 42 minute delay while all the bolts were removed, the defective bolt was replaced and the hatch was re-bolted in place.[3]
At 14:47 UTC, after two hours and 17 minutes of holds and three hours and 44 minutes after Glenn entered Friendship 7, engineer T.J. O'Malley pressed the button in the blockhouse launching the spacecraft.[4] At liftoff Glenn's pulse rate climbed to 110. Glenn entering Friendship 7
Thirty seconds after liftoff the General Electric-Burroughs guidance system locked onto a radio transponder in the booster to guide the vehicle to orbit. As the Atlas and Friendship 7 passed through Max Q Glenn reported, "It's a little bumpy about here." After Max Q the smoothed out. At two minutes and 14 seconds after launch, the booster engines cut off and dropped away. Then at two minutes and twenty-four seconds, the escape tower was jettisoned, right on schedule.
After the tower was jettisoned, the Atlas and spacecraft pitched over still further, giving Glenn his first view of the horizon. He described the view as "a beautiful sight, looking eastward across the Atlantic." Vibration increased as the last of the fuel supply was used up. At sustainer engine cut-off it was found that the Atlas had accelerated the capsule to a speed only 7 ft/s (2 m/s) below nominal. At 14:52 UTC, Friendship 7 was in orbit. Glenn received word that the Atlas had boosted the MA-6 into a trajectory that would stay up for at least seven orbits. Meanwhile, computers at the Goddard Space Center in Maryland indicated that the MA-6 orbital parameters appeared good enough for almost 100 orbits.
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Sputnik 5 was the first spaceflight to send animals into orbit and return them safely back to Earth.
On board were two dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 m...
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Sputnik 5 was the first spaceflight to send animals into orbit and return them safely back to Earth.
On board were two dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice and several plants.
Launched on August 19, 1960 it paved the way for the first human orbital flight less than eight months later with Vostok 1.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_5
Link: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/
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STS-1 Mission: First Shuttle Mission/Shuttle Systems Test Flight
Space Shuttle: Columbia
Launch Pad: 39A
Launched: April 12, 1981 at 7:00:03 a.m. ES...
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STS-1 Mission: First Shuttle Mission/Shuttle Systems Test Flight
Space Shuttle: Columbia
Launch Pad: 39A
Launched: April 12, 1981 at 7:00:03 a.m. EST
Launch Weight: 219,258 pounds
Landing Site: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
Landing: April 14, 1981 at 10:20:57 a.m. PST
Runway: 23
Rollout Distance: 8,993 feet
Rollout Time: 60 seconds
Revolution: 37
Mission Duration: 2 days, 6 hours, 20 minutes, and 53 seconds
Returned to KSC: April 28, 1981
Orbit Altitude: 166 nautical miles
Orbit Inclination: 40.3 degrees
Miles Traveled: 1.074 million
Mission Objectives
Demonstrate safe launch into orbit and safe return of the orbiter and crew. Verify the combined performance of the entire shuttle vehicle - orbiter, solid rocket boosters and external tank.
Payloads included the Developmental Flight Instrumentation (DFI) and the Aerodynamic Coefficient Identifications Package (ACIP) pallet containing equipment for recording temperatures, pressures and acceleration levels at various points on the vehicle.
Mission Highlights
Major systems tested successfully on first flight of Space Transportation System. Orbiter sustained tile damage on launch and from overpressure wave created by the solid rocket boosters. Subsequent modifications to the water sound suppression system eliminated the problem. A total of sixteen tiles were lost and 148 tiles were damaged.
NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center
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