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1 day ago · This is a timeline of space exploration which includes notable achievements, first accomplishments and milestones in humanity's exploration of outer space . This timeline generally does not distinguish achievements by a specific country or private company, as it considers humanity as a whole. See otherwise the timeline of private spaceflight or ...
1 day ago · This is a list of all rovers on extraterrestrial bodies in the Solar System. Since 1970, there have been seven lunar rovers, seven Mars rovers, and three asteroid rovers that have successfully landed and explored these extraterrestrial surfaces. In addition, a small helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, operated from 2021 to 2024.
1 day ago · List of Space Shuttle missions. Launch of Space Shuttle Columbia on 12 April 1981 at Pad 39A for mission STS-1. The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 ...
1 day ago · List of metonyms. The following is a list of common metonyms. [n 1] A metonym is a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept. For instance, "Westminster", a borough of London in the United Kingdom, could be used as a ...
Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia (Ph.D., 2000) R. Tom Sawyer, inventor of the first successful gas turbine locomotive and assisted with the development of the diesel locomotive (B.S. 1923, M.S. 1930) Betty Schmoll, founder of Hospice of Dayton, one of the first hospice programs in the United States (M.S. 1978) Ronald M. Sega, astronaut (M ...
1 day ago · The Chevrolet Corvette is a line of American two-door, two-seater sports cars manufactured and marketed by General Motors under the Chevrolet marque since 1953.. Throughout eight generations, indicated sequentially as C1 to C8, the Corvette is noted for its performance, distinctive styling, lightweight fiberglass or composite bodywork, and competitive pricing. The C
1 day ago · Scott Altman, astronaut, four Space Shuttle missions; John Altschuler, screenwriter, Blades of Glory, Silicon Valley; Anita Alvarez, Cook County State's Attorney 2008-16; John Alvin, actor, The Beast with Five Fingers, Objective, Burma! A.A. Ames, four-term mayor of Minneapolis; Edward Ames, founder, McKendree University (born in Ohio)
