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Juno in launch configuration. Juno is a NASA space probe orbiting the planet Jupiter.It was built by Lockheed Martin and is operated by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.The spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 5, 2011 UTC, as part of the New Frontiers program. [6]
[33]: 44 [BR] This aeroplane was designed for sports competitions and 300 were built in several European countries and in the United States. [34]: 98 His schemes were published in the June–July 1910 issues of Popular Mechanics. [55]: 10 This plane consolidated Santos-Dumont's role in the birth of aviation in the 20th century.
The crash landing sites themselves are of interest to space archeology. Luna 1 , not itself a lunar orbiter, was the first spacecraft designed as an impactor . It failed to hit the Moon in 1959, however, thus inadvertently becoming the first man-made object to leave geocentric orbit and enter a heliocentric orbit , where it remains.
In total 10 Venera probes achieved a soft landing on the surface of Venus. In 1984, the Vega programme began and ended with the launch of two crafts launched 6 days apart, Vega 1 and Vega 2. Both crafts deployed a balloon in addition to a lander, marking a first in spaceflight. [40] [41] [42]
Artist's depiction of Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft to visit Jupiter. The exploration of Jupiter has been conducted via close observations by automated spacecraft.It began with the arrival of Pioneer 10 into the Jovian system in 1973, and, as of 2024, has continued with eight further spacecraft missions in the vicinity of Jupiter and two more en route.
On August 17, 1859, he made the first flight of local airmail in the U.S. from Lafayette, Indiana, to Crawfordsville, Indiana, in a balloon named Jupiter, [1] carrying 123 letters and 23 circulars of which one cover was discovered in 1957. [2] His trip of 25 miles (40 km) ended when he was forced to land by lack of buoyancy.
[147] The air speed record for an aircraft was set by the X-15 at 4,534 mph (7,297 km/h) or Mach 6.1 in 1967. This record was later broken by the X-43 in 2004, excluding spacecraft. [148] Military aircraft had a strategic advantage during the Cold War with the invention of nuclear bombs in 1945.
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum set up an Adobe Flash website that rebroadcasts the transmissions of Apollo 11 from launch to landing on the Moon. [269] On July 20, 2009, Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins met with President Barack Obama at the White House. [270] "We expect that there is, as we speak, another generation of kids ...