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Robert Rankin, born 1951 in Brisbane, Australia is a wilderness photographer, writer, scientist and publisher. Since 1980, he has published his Australian wilderness landscape photography in a variety of products and media.
Apollo 13 (April 11–17, 1970) was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and would have been the third Moon landing.The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module (SM) exploded two days into the mission, disabling its electrical and life-support system.
The high-pressure oxygen atmosphere was similar to that which had been used successfully in the Mercury and Gemini programs. The pressure before launch was deliberately greater than ambient in order to drive out the nitrogen-containing air and replace it with pure oxygen, and also to seal the plug door hatch cover. During the launch, the ...
KFormula 1.5+ (full native support). LibreOffice Math — Allows read/write of ODF files. Collabora Office for Desktop apps uses ODF as its native file format. Math uses ODF as its native file format. OpenOffice Math (full support from 2.0). NeoOffice 2.0 Math (OpenOffice 2.0.3 derivative).
A carbon–oxygen white dwarf which approaches this limit, typically by mass transfer from a companion star, may explode as a Type Ia supernova via a process known as carbon detonation; [1] [5] SN 1006 is a likely example.
It is a full member of the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation. The FAA issues a number of awards to holders of its certificates. Among these are demonstrated proficiencies as an aviation mechanic (the AMT Awards), a flight instructor (Gold Seal certification), a 50-year aviator (Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award), a 50-year mechanic ...
In October 1999, DeCSS was released. This program enables anyone to remove the CSS encryption on a DVD. Although its authors only intended the software to be used for playback purposes, [2] it also meant that one could decode the content perfectly for ripping; combined with the DivX 3.11 Alpha codec released shortly after, the new codec increased video quality from near VHS to almost DVD ...