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It is named after Goldstone, California, a nearby gold-mining ghost town. [ 4 ] The station is one of three [ 5 ] satellite communication stations in the NASA Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program’s Deep Space Network (DSN), whose mission is to provide the vital two-way communications link that tracks and controls interplanetary ...
English: Map of San Francisco, 1850, Apollo storeship at the bottom. From Joseph P. Beach's journal from New York to San Francisco, son of Moses Yale Beach, New York Sun From Joseph P. Beach's journal from New York to San Francisco, son of Moses Yale Beach, New York Sun
Space Park is an aerospace engineering campus occupying over 100 acres in Redondo Beach, California, since 1961, expanding in 1968 to a nearly adjacent 90 acres in Manhattan Beach [3] (15 of which were developed as public sports facilities between 1987 and 2001; [4] 22 of which were sold in 1996 and became the MBS Media Campus [5]).
The "California Aerospace Museum" was also opened in 1984 adjacent to and operated by the California Museum of Science and Industry to coincide with the Summer Olympics. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] It was also known as Aerospace Hall but also commonly known as the California Air and Space Museum/Gallery and the SKETCH Foundation Gallery, [ 15 ] and was the ...
Lick Observatory is the world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory. [1] The observatory, in a Classical Revival style structure, was constructed between 1876 and 1887, from a bequest from James Lick of $700,000, equivalent to $23,737,778 in 2023.
The name has become a permanent designation for the site. Although the name was designated by the Apollo astronauts, the International Astronomical Union officially recognizes the designation "Tranquility Base". It is listed on lunar maps as Statio Tranquillitatis, conforming to the standard use of Latin for lunar place names.
Police are seeking a suspect in a Fremont, Calif., theft of two Porsches. Another man has been arrested and both cars have been found.
The Apollo is a historic storeship that is buried at a location in downtown San Francisco, California, at the site of the Old Federal Reserve Bank. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. [1] Parts of the ship have been uncovered, most recently in 1921 and 1925.