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Back to the Future Part III was filmed in California and Arizona, and was produced on a $40 million budget back-to-back with Part II. Part III was released in the United States on May 25, 1990, six months after the previous installment, and grossed $245 million worldwide during its initial run, making it the sixth-highest-grossing film of 1990. [3]
She participated in the Teacher in Space Project as backup to Christa McAuliffe for the 1986 ill-fated STS-51-L mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger. In 1998, eight years after the Teacher in Space Project had ended, she was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate, training as a mission specialist ; astronaut Morgan flew on STS-118 in ...
'Space tourist' blasts off to ISS – BBC, 1 October 2005 'Space tourist' arrives at Space Station – BBC, 3 October 2005; Trek to Space Station Is 'A Dream Come True' Spacefacts biography of Gregory Olsen; Pictures and narrative of the Soyuz TMA-7 launch; Human Presence in Space International Forum Archived 2019-12-14 at the Wayback Machine
13 September 1959: First spacecraft to impact another celestial body (the Moon). First delivery of national pennants to a celestial body. USSR Luna 2: 4 October 1959: First photos of another world from space: the far side of the Moon. First gravity assist. USSR Luna 3
The mission, called Polaris Dawn, is slated to take off as soon as Wednesday between 3:30 a.m. and 7:09 a.m. ET after Tuesday morning’s launch attempt was waived off because of issues with ...
On October 3, 1962, he flew the six-orbit, nine-hour, Mercury-Atlas 8 mission, in a spacecraft he nicknamed Sigma 7, becoming the fifth American and ninth human to travel into space. In December 1965, as part of the two-man Gemini program, he achieved the first space rendezvous, station-keeping his Gemini 6A spacecraft within 1 foot (30 cm) of ...
Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film [a] and quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon. The franchise has been expanded into various films and other media , including television series , video games , novels , comic books , theme park attractions ...
The Soviet Union took the lead in the post-war Space Race, launching the first satellite, [1] the first animal, [2]: 155 the first human [3] and the first woman [4] into orbit. The United States landed the first men on the Moon in 1969. Through the late 20th century, France, the United Kingdom, Japan, and China were also working on projects to ...