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This list includes Russian cosmonauts, who were the first women in outer space. Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go to space in 1963, very early in crewed space exploration, and it would be almost twenty years before another flew (Svetlana Savitskaya). By the end of the 1980s, women in space had become more common. By 2019 ...
In 2016, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [2] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin, dated July 2016, [3] included a table of 125 stars comprising the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN (on 30 June and 20 July 2016) together with names of stars adopted by the IAU Executive Committee ...
Independence Day, Star Wars, 2001: A Space Odyssey—films that inspired multiple generations. You know them all by heart. You know them all by heart. That leads us to this: a roundup of the best ...
Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...
A. ^ Partially fictionalized meaning either directly based on a heavily studied real concept/station (e.g. the S-IVB Orbital Workshop in Marooned), or an extension of an existing modern station (e.g. the World Space Station in Mission to Mars being an extension of the International Space Station.) Some stations share the name of real space ...
Maggie Aderin-Pocock (born 1968), English space scientist; Conny Aerts (born 1966), Belgian astrophysicist specializing in asteroseismology; Aglaonike (c. 1st or 2nd Century BCE), ancient Greek astronomer and thaumaturge; María Luisa Aguilar Hurtado (1938–2015), Peruvian astronomer; Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (1912–1954), German variable star ...
Image credits: Lucasfilm Ltd. #14 Grace and Frankie. This pair of senior ladies strike an unexpected friendship when their husbands turn out to be gay and fall in love with each other.
Failed attempts to shoot films in outer space Year Title Country Notes 2003 Thiefs and Prostitutes. Spaceflight is the Prize Russia: Actor Vladimir Steklov trained and was assigned for a 2000 flight on Soyuz TM-30 to film scenes for the movie on Mir. [7] The plans were scrapped due to lack of funding, [8] and space scenes were filmed in studio ...