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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 ...
Space: 1999, a British science-fiction television series, ran for 48 episodes broadcast between 1975 and 1977. The first series (or season, often referred to as Year One) of 24 episodes began transmission in 1975, though production of the first episode began in 1973.
Winter Break is about to begin, and the cadets share their ambitious vacation plans: Hawk will visit 7,000 asteroids in seven days, Raven is going canyon racing on Mars, and Eagle will have fun ring diving around Saturn, but Robyn hasn’t been able to make up her mind… other than to just go where her wings take her.
Men into Space (a.k.a. Space Challenge in later US syndication) is an American black-and-white science fiction television series, produced by Ziv Television Programs, Inc., that was first broadcast by CBS from September 30, 1959, to September 7, 1960.
Space Brothers (宇宙兄弟, Uchū Kyōdai) is a 2012 Japanese anime television series produced by A-1 Pictures based on the original manga series by Chūya Koyama.The story follows a man named Mutta Nanba who one day gets the chance to follow his younger brother Hibito and become an astronaut.
31 January 1961: First hominidae in space (chimpanzee Ham). First tasks performed in space. USA (NASA) M-R 2: 12 February 1961: First launch from Earth orbit of upper stage into a heliocentric orbit. First mid-course corrections. First spin-stabilisation. USSR Venera 1: 12 April 1961: First human spaceflight (Yuri Gagarin). First human-crewed ...
Canceled after 24 episodes, the series was revived as Galactica 1980, which aired for 10 episodes from January 27 to May 4, 1980. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The series follows a group of humans fleeing the destruction of their homeworlds aboard the titular spacecraft , searching for a new home while being pursued by the Cylons , a fearsome society of robots ...
When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (or NASA's Greatest Missions: When We Left Earth in the UK) is a 2008 Discovery Channel HD documentary miniseries consisting of six episodes documenting American human spaceflight from the first Mercury flights and the Gemini program, to the Apollo program and its Moon missions and landings, to the Space Shuttle missions and the construction of the ...