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  2. What happens if an astronaut floats off into space? - AOL

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    If that fails, saving an astronaut floating off into space might require several tethers hooked together, a SAFER, and, to be honest, a lot of luck. RELATED: Here's whats happening in space this year:

  3. Christer Fuglesang - Wikipedia

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    Fuglesang took one of his personal frisbees to the International Space Station. On Dec 15 in 2006, he set a new "world record" for Time Aloft by free-floating a spinning frisbee for 20 seconds in the microgravity environment of the ISS. It was done during a live broadcast interview with a space exhibition in Stockholm Sweden.

  4. Human spaceflight - Wikipedia

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    Replica of the Vostok space capsule, which carried the first human into orbit, at Technik Museum Speyer Mercury space capsule, which carried the first Americans into orbit, on display at the Astronaut Hall of Fame, Titusville, Florida North American X-15, hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft, which reached the edge of space Neil Armstrong, one of the first two people to land on the Moon and the ...

  5. List of fictional astronauts (miscellaneous futuristic ...

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    Unnamed astronaut Unnamed sergeant Eastern Space Patrol: Vaslov, Maj. (no first name given) Colormation Screen Test (1962), short film International Space Commission: Wheel 4 (Space station) Eastern Space Patrol: Red Star Patrol: Near Future US astronaut tells Congressional committee about recent events in space. [30] Prospero: Grunfeld Croker ...

  6. The Blue Marble - Wikipedia

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    The Blue Marble is a photograph of Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by either Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the Moon.Viewed from around 29,400 km (18,300 mi) from Earth's surface, [1] a cropped and rotated version has become one of the most reproduced images in history.

  7. Computer-generated imagery - Wikipedia

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    An image conditioned on the prompt an astronaut riding a horse, by Hiroshige, generated by Stable Diffusion 3.5, a large-scale text-to-image model first released in 2022. A text-to-image model is a machine learning model which takes an input natural language description and produces an image matching that description.

  8. Ronald Evans (astronaut) - Wikipedia

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    In earlier astronaut groups, the senior astronaut had assumed the role of command module pilot (CMP) while the more junior was the lunar module pilot (LMP), but the Nineteen were divided into Command/Service Module (CSM) and Lunar Module (LM) specialists. Slayton asked each of the Nineteen which speciality he preferred, but made the final ...

  9. Victor J. Glover - Wikipedia

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    Victor Jerome Glover (born April 30, 1976) is a NASA astronaut of the class of 2013 [1] [2] and pilot on the first operational flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon to the International Space Station. Glover is a captain and F/A-18 pilot in the U.S. Navy and is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School . [ 3 ]