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Mercury-Atlas 9. Mercury-Atlas 9 was the final crewed space mission of the U.S. Mercury program, launched on May 15, 1963, from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft, named Faith 7, completed 22 Earth orbits before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, piloted by astronaut Gordon Cooper, then a United States Air Force ...
The coat of arms of Malaysia ( Malay: Jata Negara Malaysia; Jawi: جات نڬارا مليسيا ) is a coat of arms comprising a shield or escutcheon, two tigers for supporters, a crescent and fourteen-pointed star for a crest and a motto. As the Malaysian coat of arms descended from that of the Federated Malay States under British ...
NASA "meatball" insignia, primary logo 1959–1975, 1992–present. NASA "worm" logotype 1975–1992, re-instated as a secondary logo in 2020. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) insignia has three main official designs, although the one with stylized red curved text (the "worm") was retired from official use from May 22 ...
The national flag of Malaysia, also known as the Stripes of Glory ( Malay: Jalur Gemilang; Jawi: جالور ݢميلڠ ), [ 1] is composed of a field of 14 alternating red and white stripes along the fly and a blue canton bearing a crescent and a 14-point star known as the Bintang Persekutuan (Federal Star). The 14 stripes, of equal width ...
Belka and Strelka on a 1960 stamp. Belka (Белка, literally, "squirrel", or alternatively "Whitey") and Strelka (Стрелка, "arrow") are dogs that spent a day in space aboard Korabl-Sputnik 2 (Sputnik 5) on 19 August 1960 before safely returning to Earth. They were the first higher living organisms to survive an orbital trip in outer ...
Date/Time (UTC) Source object Event type Pieces tracked Remarks 9 May [1]: Westford-2: Communications experiment 46 [1]: As part of an experiment to facilitate international telecommunications, the US Military deployed an artificial space ring consisting of hundreds of millions of tiny copper needles [2] which would act as antennas reflecting radio signals at the target wavelength of 8 GHz.
National. Arms. Date of adoption. Use. Description. Used from 1988 after several modification in 1963, 1965, 1982 and 1988. National coat of arms of Malaysia ( Jata Negara) Crest: Yellow crescent and yellow 14-pointed "federal star".
The National Space Agency ( Malay: Agensi Angkasa Negara ), abbreviated ANGKASA, was the national space agency of Malaysia. It was established in 2002 and its charter aims to upgrade, stimulate and foster the country's space programme through integrated and coordinated efforts by developing and applying space technologies.