Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Apollo 14 (January 31 – February 9, 1971) was the eighth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, the third to land on the Moon, and the first to land in the lunar highlands. It was the last of the " H missions ", landings at specific sites of scientific interest on the Moon for two-day stays with two lunar extravehicular ...
In terms of photography, Apollo 14's crew proved to be less "trigger-happy" than the preceding Apollo 12 crew and only took 417 pictures on the Moon, compared to 583 on the earlier mission. However, 288 of these were components of 17 distinct panoramas and ALSJ lists another 25 sub-panoramas within these.
6 September 1976 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 1972 [13] Thanh Lãng (1924–1978) Vietnam Peace: Thích Nhất Hạnh: 11 October 1926 Huế, Thừa Thiên Huế, Vietnam 22 January 2022 Huế, Thừa Thiên-Huế, Vietnam 1967 "for his lifelong efforts to promote peace, social justice and reconciliation in between North and South Vietnam." [14]
Homer Hadley Hickam Jr. (born February 19, 1943) is an American author, Vietnam War veteran, and a former NASA engineer who trained the first Japanese astronauts.His 1998 memoir Rocket Boys (also published as October Sky) was a New York Times Best Seller and was the basis for the 1999 film October Sky.
An experimental Wikipedia edition in the obsolete chữ Nôm script began in October 2006 at the Wikimedia Incubator. [6] It was deleted in April 2010. [7] [non-primary source needed] The Vietnam Wikimedians User Group supports the development of the Vietnamese Wikipedia and other Vietnamese-language Wikimedia projects.
The Apollo 14 Passive Seismic Experiment (PSE) was placed on the lunar surface on February 5, 1971, as part of the Apollo 14 ALSEP package. The PSE was designed to detect vibrations and tilting of the lunar surface and measure changes in gravity at the instrument location.
Wally Schirra – naval aviator, astronaut (Mercury 8, Gemini 6A and Apollo 7) Alan Shepard – naval aviator and flag officer (Rear Admiral), first American in space (Mercury-Redstone 3) and Apollo 14 commander; William Shepherd – Navy SEAL, astronaut (STS-27, STS-41, STS-52) Thomas P. Stafford – aviator and astronaut (Gemini 6A, Gemini 9A ...
The Vietnam People's Navy has itself built six Tarantul-class corvettes (Molniya class) with Russian supervision and has designed and built the first warships of the TT-400TP gunboat class. [102] Vietnam also purchased two Pohang-class corvettes were purchased from South Korea, one in 2017 and