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Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir (ISBN 0-88730-783-3) is a 1999 book by Bryan Burrough about the Russian Mir space station and the cosmonauts and astronauts who served aboard. The story centres on astronaut Jerry Linenger and the events on the Shuttle and Mir Space Programme in 1997. Personnel covered in the book
The 52nd of 64 Progress spacecraft to visit Mir, it used the Progress-M 11F615A55 configuration, [2] and had the serial number 234. [3] It carried supplies including food, water, and oxygen for the EO-23 crew aboard Mir, as well as equipment for conducting scientific research, and fuel for adjusting the station's orbit and performing maneuvers.
A view of Mir on 12 June 1998 as seen from the departing Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-91 Mir (lit. Peace or World) was a Soviet and later Russian space station, operational in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001. With a mass greater than that of any previous space station, Mir was constructed from 1986 to 1996 with a modular design, the first to be assembled in this way. The station was ...
Dragonfly will send a mobile robotic rotorcraft to Saturn's biggest moon Titan [19] and will make use of Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (MMRTG) for power to navigate through the atmosphere of Titan. [3] [20] [21] The development cost cap is approximately $1 billion. [22] As of June 2024, Dragonfly is scheduled for launch ...
Stanley is recalling 2.6 million mugs sold in the U.S. after the company received dozens of consumer complaints, including some users who reported getting burned and requiring medical attention ...
A witness first saw the gun poking through a crack between the apartment door and the frame. There had been a knock and an eerie silence, then an attempt by two men to force the door open.
Special Force (named Soldier Front in North America) is an online free-to-play first-person shooter game developed by the South Korean video game developer Dragonfly, which is based in Seoul. Although a small company, it is notable for releasing many popular games both inside and outside Korea, including: Special Force and Karma.
A police dog has been injured in an incident that saw armed officers track a van suspected of carrying weapons. West Midlands Police said the van was spotted by officers on Saturday morning using ...