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Lucy was launched from Cape Canaveral SLC-41 on 16 October 2021, at 09:34 UTC [3] on the 401 variant of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle. It gained one gravity assist from Earth a year later on 16 October 2022, [12] and after making a flyby of the asteroid 152830 Dinkinesh in 2023, [13] it will gain another gravity assist from Earth in 2024. [14]
Accompanied by a thick "Spacecraft Operations" manual with a chapter on use in the classroom, this flight simulator was marketed as being as educational as it was fun to play. The simulation is centered on a typical Space Shuttle mission to service a space station.
Lucy's life-story was the subject of a 2010 one-hour Radiolab episode entitled ‘Lucy’. [9] Excerpts of this show were also included in This American Life, under the title ‘Parent Trap’. Both stories focus on Lucy's lifelong emotional stress. [10] In 2021 an HBO Max documentary film, Lucy the Human Chimp, was made. [11]
It was the only facility in the Space Shuttle Program where actual orbiter hardware and flight software can be integrated and tested in a simulated flight environment. It supported the entire Space Shuttle program to perform integrated verification tests. It also contained Firing Room Launch Equipment identical to that used at KSC.
Freelancer is a space trading and combat simulation video game developed by Digital Anvil and published by Microsoft Game Studios.It is a chronological sequel to Digital Anvil's Starlancer, a combat flight simulator released in 2000.
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Today we're announcing that Lucy Condakchian, general manager of robotics at Maxar Technologies, will be joining us onstage to talk about the company's work in space, and in particular NASA's Mars ...
Orbiter is a space flight simulator program developed to simulate spaceflight using realistic Newtonian physics.The simulator was released on 27 November 2000; [2] the latest edition, labeled "Orbiter 2016", was released on 30 August 2016, the first new version of the simulator since 2010. [3]