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It's time to build a culture of entrepreneurs at NASA
07 Apr 2025 21:20 GMT
… By leveraging entrepreneurial companies, NASA can autonomously land a … 12 and Skylab commander Pete Conrad led our Delta Clipper … commercial and military potential, NASA should expand its commercial … and Conrad first landed on the moon. If NASA chooses …
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From Community College To Cosmic Heights: Rocket Scientist Aisha Bowe Set To Make History On Blue Origin’s First All-Female Spaceflight
11 Apr 2025 20:36 GMT
… to becoming a rocket scientist, NASA veteran and now poised to … come close to working for NASA,” Bowe shares. “And it was … taken to the moon by astronaut Pete Conrad—his personal flag, now on … really go and work for NASA and then found two successful …
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Two Trailblazing Spacewalks in 1965 Opened the Door to Decades of Astronauts Pushing the Limits of Their Capabilities
24 Mar 2025 20:08 GMT
… with Skylab 2’s commander Pete Conrad, pilot Paul J. Weitz … On June 7, Conrad and Kerwin passed through NASA’s first airlock … would have been impossible without Conrad and Kerwin’s spacewalk … the Space Shuttle Program, NASA astronaut Mike Fossum waits at an …
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Remembering WWII Veteran Charles Edward Wilson
17 Mar 2025 14:05 GMT
NASA. Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad poses next to the … an electrical engineering degree.
Charles worked for Hughes Aircraft … UCLA and Harvard University.
Charles worked on guidance systems for … of Apollo 12 Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. and Lunar …
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SpaceX’s autonomous docking technology could enable stranded astronauts’ return as Crew-10 reaches ISS
16 Mar 2025 23:52 GMT
… on the Falcon 9 rocket.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore (center left) and … station. After eight failed attempts, astronauts Charles “Pete” Conrad and Paul Weitz had to … . Wilmore and Williams, along with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut …
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Auction offers Neil Armstrong's reply to NASA engineer's Apollo 11 mission patch ideas
09 Feb 2025 17:18 GMT
… his 34 years with NASA at Cape Canaveral in … inscribed one of his early NASA portraits to McClelland, … The Apollo 11 astronauts collaborated with a different NASA employee, illustrator … signed by the Apollo 12 astronauts, Charles Conrad, Alan Bean and Dick …
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How did walking on the Moon affect the Apollo astronauts?
03 Feb 2025 17:27 GMT
… mission. Credit: NASA
Apollo 12
Apollo 12, commanded by Pete Conrad with Alan … Charlie Duke. Called “the astronaut’s astronaut” by Emerita Curator Valerie Neal … military pilot before becoming an astronaut. After NASA, Cernan had a career …
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Aliens on the moon! Astronaut Neil Armstrong admitted ahead of 1969 lunar landing he would be unprepared if attacked by extra-terrestrial life on arrival, unseen letter reveals
29 Jan 2025 11:11 GMT
… .m. (EDT).
Apollo was the NASA programme that launched in 1961 … down on the lunar surface.
Astronaut Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin … November 19 and 20, 1969
Pete Conrad and Alan Bean were the … 21 1972
John Young and Charles Duke were the next men …
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What happened to the flags Apollo astronauts left on the moon?
13 Jan 2025 22:30 GMT
… mission, moonwalker Pete Conrad erects the American flag. (Image credit: NASA)Flagpole design … , and ease of assembly by astronauts whose space suits restricted their … Apollo 16’s Charles Duke, Jr. (Image credit: NASA)Wanted: critical thinking …
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How Project Gemini changed spaceflight
05 Apr 2025 15:20 GMT
… pilots to perform maneuvers. The astronauts’ influence in controlling these minutiae … failure. But Gordon Cooper and Charles “Pete” Conrad simulated this meeting with a … ahead of the astronauts’ capsule, exploded shortly after launch. NASA instead decided …