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Endeavour, which was named for the space shuttle Endeavour, had previously served as call signs for both an Apollo spacecraft and the spacecraft's namesake shuttle. [6] The name Freedom honors Freedom 7 , the space capsule used by Alan Shepard 's Mercury Redstone 3 , the first United States human spaceflight mission.
Pages in category "Call signs" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total. ... Spacecraft call signs; T. List of three-letter broadcast call signs ...
Pages in category "Spacecraft" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. ... Spacecraft call signs; Space capsule; Crew Dragon Launch Abort System ...
Quindar tones were named for the manufacturer Quindar Electronics, Inc., now QEI. Glen Swanson, historian at NASA's Johnson Space Center who edited the Mission Transcript Collection, and Steve Schindler, an engineer with voice systems engineering at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, confirmed the origin of the name. "Quindar tones, named after the ...
Russian nuclear icebreaker Arktika with call sign UKTY. Merchant and naval vessels are assigned call signs by their national licensing authorities. In the case of states such as Liberia or Panama, which are flags of convenience for ship registration, call signs for larger vessels consist of the national prefix plus three letters (for example, 3LXY, and sometimes followed by a number, e.g. 3LXY2).
NASA’s Orion spacecraft made a close approach to the moon Monday, about 81 miles above the surface, as it maneuvered to enter a lunar orbit. The test flight of the Artemis I mission is a key ...
Apollo 10 (May 18–26, 1969) was the fourth human spaceflight in the United States' Apollo program and the second to orbit the Moon. NASA, the mission's operator, described it as a "dress rehearsal" for the first Moon landing (Apollo 11, two months later [4]).
In 1974, he commanded his second (and final) space flight Soyuz 14 (Russian: Союз 14) in 1974. [2] Again, his call sign for this flight was Golden eagle (Бе́ркут). This flight was the first to the Salyut 3 space station. In 1977, he received a post-graduate degree in technical sciences. [2] [4]