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GEN David Petraeus at CNAS's annual conference, June 2009. The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is a think tank in Washington, D.C. specializing in United States national security issues, including terrorism, irregular warfare, the future of the U.S. military, the emergence of Asia as a global power center, war games pitting the U.S. against the People's Republic of China, [2] and the ...
30 June 2001: Delta II 7425-10: NASA: Flyby: Success Flyby on 30 July 2001 to reach the Earth–Sun L2 Lagrangian point. 108: SMART-1: SMART-1: 27 September 2003: Ariane 5G: ESA: Orbiter: Success Impacted Moon in USGS quadrangle LQ26 at end of mission on 3 September 2006. The impact made the ESA member states collectively the 4th to impact the ...
June 21 – Solar eclipse of June 21, 2001, a total eclipse. August 8 – NASA's Genesis spacecraft is launched. October 15 – NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles (180 km) of Jupiter's moon Io. November 27 – The Hubble Space Telescope detects sodium in the atmosphere of HD 209458 b, the first exoplanet atmosphere to be measured.
A penumbral lunar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s descending node of orbit on Monday, June 24, 2002, [1] with an umbral magnitude of −0.791. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs when part or all of the Moon's near side passes into the Earth's ...
While the Apollo 17 Goodwill Moon rock presented to Cyprus was recovered, the Apollo 11 rock given to the country remains missing. [8]In his June 26, 2011 Op/Ed appearing in the Cyprus Mail entitled "Houston we have a problem: we didn't give Cyprus its moon rock", Joseph Gutheinz revealed that after NASA recovered the Cyprus Apollo 17 Goodwill Moon Rock over a year ago they failed to give the ...
In 2007, Flournoy co-founded the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) with Kurt M. Campbell. [15] She was named CNAS's president. [7] Flournoy and Campbell wrote a 2007 policy paper called "The Inheritance and the Way Forward" that advocated for a US foreign policy "grounded in a common-sense pragmatism rather than ideology". [7] [16]
June 2001 events by country (15 C) * June 2001 sports events (6 C) C. ... 29 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...
June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; ... 1897 – Fulgence Charpentier, Canadian journalist and publisher (d. 2001)