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Norman Earl Thagard (born July 3, 1943; Capt, USMC, Ret.) is an American scientist and former U.S. Marine Corps officer and naval aviator and NASA astronaut. He is the first American to ride to space on board a Russian vehicle, and can be considered the first American cosmonaut .
The crew had already eaten lunch with the president at the White House on June 1, the first time that a crew did so before launch rather than after. [ 2 ] [ page needed ] The crew of STS-7 included Robert Crippen, commander, making his second Shuttle flight; Frederick Hauck, pilot; and Sally Ride, John M. Fabian and Norman Thagard, all mission ...
The shuttle landed at 8:07:17 PST (16:07:17 UTC) on January 30, 1992, on Runway 22, Edwards Air Force Base, California. [1] STS-42 was the first of two flights in 1992 of Discovery , the second of which occurred during STS-53 , which launched on December 2, 1992.
Norman Thagard self-experimenting aboard the Space Shuttle. He conducted physiological experiments on personnel during the STS-7 mission. Self-experimentation refers to scientific experimentation in which the experimenter conducts the experiment on themself. Often this means that the designer, operator, subject, analyst, and user or reporter of ...
STS-30 was the 29th NASA Space Shuttle mission and the fourth mission for Space Shuttle Atlantis.It was the fourth shuttle launch since the Challenger disaster and the first shuttle mission since the disaster to have a female astronaut on board.
Fabian instead left NASA on January 1, 1986, to become Director of Space, Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans and Operations, Headquarters USAF. [ 1 ] Colonel Fabian retired from the USAF in June 1987 and joined Analytic Services , a non-profit aerospace public service research institute in Arlington, Virginia , where he retired as president and chief ...
The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) designed MP3 as part of its MPEG-1, and later MPEG-2, standards.MPEG-1 Audio (MPEG-1 Part 3), which included MPEG-1 Audio Layer I, II, and III, was approved as a committee draft for an ISO/IEC standard in 1991, [14] [15] finalized in 1992, [16] and published in 1993 as ISO/IEC 11172-3:1993. [7]
"Norman" is a popular song written by John D. Loudermilk. Recorded by Sue Thompson in 1961, the song reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 . [ 1 ] The next year, Carol Deene released her version of the song in the United Kingdom on His Master's Voice , where it reached No. 24 on the UK Singles Chart . [ 2 ]