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First man in space
The first human space flight was between the united states and the soviet union. Yuri Gagarin was the first man to go to space. Alan Shepard was the first american in space in less than a month. -
First man on the moon
On July 20, 1969, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. -
Apollo 13 accident
Apollo 13 was caused an explosion of oxygen in a tank. -
Mars rover
The Mars rover landed on Mars in 2004. -
Another rover
Curiosty's spacecraft was hit by a intense radiation storm from the sun since 2005. This event happened when sunspot AR1402 created a X2- solar flare. -
Texas students to chat live with space station crew members
Students at O. Henry Middle School in Austin, Texas, will learn about living and working in space by speaking with Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineers Don Pettit and Andre Kuipers aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday, April 3. The live questions and answer session will take place at 11:20 a.m. EDT. -
NASA T-38 Aircraft to Fly Over Washington Metro Area
NASA, in cooperation with the Federal Aviation Administration, will conduct training and photographic flights on Thursday, April 5, over the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.Two T-38 training jets will fly approximately 1,500 feet above Washington between 9:30 and 11 a.m. EDT to photograph the area. T-38 aircraft have been used for years to train pilots. -
Space Station Keeps Watch on World's Sea Traffic
As the International Space Station circles Earth, it has been tracking individual ships crossing the seas beneath. An investigation hosted by the European Space Agency (ESA) in its Columbus module has been testing the viability of monitoring global maritime traffic from the station's orbit hundreds of miles (kilometers) above since June 2010 -
NASA's WISE Mission Sees Skies Ablaze With Blazars
Astronomers are hunting a class of big blackholes throught the universe. They are called Blazars.
