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Ospreys have a vision that is well adapted to detecting underwater objects from the air. Prey is first sighted when the osprey is 10–40 m (33–131 ft) above the water, after which the bird hovers momentarily and then plunges feet first into the water. [ 44 ]
Albert II, a rhesus monkey, became the first mammal in space aboard a U.S. V-2 rocket on June 14, 1949, and died on reentry due to a parachute failure. The first dogs in space were launched 22 July 1951 aboard a Soviet R-1V. "Tsygin" and "Dezik" reached a height of 100 km (62 mi) and safely parachuted back to Earth.
China Manned Space Agency: Shenzhou 16: 20 July 2023 7:55 16 (tie) Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin: Roskosmos: Expedition 69: 19 April 2023 7:55 [3] 16 (tie) Michael Lopez-Alegria and Sunita Williams: NASA: Expedition 14: 31 January 2007 7:55 [3] 16 (tie) Tamara E. Jernigan and Daniel T. Barry: NASA: STS-96: 30 May 1999 7:55 [14] [3] 20 ...
Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov looks out space station Mir's window during his 438-day flight in 1994–1995. Timeline of longest spaceflights is a chronology of the longest spaceflights. Many of the first flights set records measured in hours and days, the space station missions of the 1970s and 1980s pushed this to weeks and months, and by the ...
The military’s hundreds of V-22 Ospreys will not be permitted to fly their full range of missions until at least 2025 as the Pentagon continues to address safety concerns in the fleet, the head ...
The U.S. military has flown the Osprey about 750,000 hours and relied on its ability to fly long distances quickly like a plane and then convert to a helicopter to conduct operations in the Middle ...
In 2022, a Marine aviation spokesman said the service’s Ospreys had a lower mishap rate per 100,000 flight hours than three of its jet fighters – the Harrier, the F/A18 Super Hornet and the F ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 December 2024. Inhabited space station in low Earth orbit (1998–present) "ISS" redirects here. For other uses, see ISS (disambiguation). International Space Station (ISS) Oblique underside view in November 2021 International Space Station programme emblem with flags of the original signatory states ...