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There are no age restrictions for the NASA Astronaut Corps. Astronaut candidates have ranged between the ages of 26 and 46, with the average age being 34. Candidates must be U.S. citizens to apply for the program. There are three broad categories of qualifications: education, work experience, and medical. [6]
NASA management was concerned about losing the 400,000 workers involved in Apollo after landing on the Moon in 1969. [3] Wernher von Braun, head of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center during the 1960s, advocated for a smaller space station (after his large one was not built) to provide his employees with work beyond developing the Saturn rockets, which would be completed relatively early ...
Kerr, now 27, secured a role as a dancer on the line’s Rhapsody of the Seas ship in 2022. She spent seven months working on board as the ship sailed primarily around Europe.
This crewed flight was to have followed the first three uncrewed flights. After the fire which killed the AS-204 crew on the pad during a test and training exercise, uncrewed Apollo flights resumed to test the Saturn V launch vehicle and the Lunar Module; these were designated Apollo 4, 5 and 6. The first crewed Apollo mission was thus Apollo 7 ...
Apollo (1812 EIC ship) was launched at Hull. She made three voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) as a regular ship. She continued to trade with India under licence from the EIC until she was wrecked near Cape Town in 1823. Apollo (1819 ship) was launched in Bristol as a West Indiaman.
Apollo 16 landed in the Descartes Highlands on April 20, 1972. The crew was commanded by John Young, with Ken Mattingly and Charles Duke. Young and Duke spent just under three days on the surface, with a total of over 20 hours EVA. [121] Apollo 17 was the last of the Apollo program, landing in the Taurus–Littrow region in
There was some variation between flights. For example, between MA-6 and MA-7 the Mid-Atlantic Ship was removed and the Indian Ocean Ship was repositioned to the Mozambique Channel. A Pacific Ocean ship (USNS Wheeling) and the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex (GDS), California were used during Gordon Cooper's 1963 MA-9 flight. On MA-9 ...
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