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unusual facts about Space Shuttle ''Endeavour''



Arnaud I de La Porte

Arnaud II briefly achieved the position his father had never been able to attain of Minister of the Marine, and during the Revolution was called by his beleaguered king to oversee counterrevolutionary activities from his new post as Intendant of the Civil List (manager of the king’s private funds), an endeavour which would cost him his life in 1792 when he became the Revolution's second victim of the guillotine.

Balian of Beirut

He also had the support of Philip of Novara and Philip of Montfort and he employed mercenaries and galleys in the endeavour.

Barton Seaver

In 2010, Seaver delivered a TED Talk on sustainable seafood aboard the National Geographic Endeavour as part of a conference-at-sea conceived by TED Prize winner and Mission Blue founder Dr. Sylvia Earle as part of the Mission Blue Voyage.

Bill Helin

His accomplishments include designing the patch worn by astronauts on the U.S. space shuttle Columbia in 1996 and the carving of the world's largest (180' 3" tall) totem pole known as the Spirit of Lekwammen, carved for the Commonwealth Games.

Bonaventura Genelli

He seemed to hark back to the land of his fathers and endeavour to revive the traditions of the Italian Renaissance.

Broken Bay

Ray Parkin in his book H. M. Bark Endeavour claims that the modern 'Broken Bay' was passed unremarked at night, and that Cook was in fact referring to the area around Narrabeen Lagoon.

C. W. H. Pauli

1863 The Great Mystery, or How can Three be One (London, 1863) - an endeavour to prove the doctrine of the Trinity from the Zohar, in which he made further critical comments against Gesenius including that he had misunderstood the grammar and perpetuated a hoax concerning the pluralis excellentiae of Elohim.

Carl E. Walz

The Expedition 4 crew returned to Earth aboard STS-111, with Endeavour landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on June 19, 2002.

CBC Parliamentary Television Network

In October 1984 it was used to simulcast coverage from NASA TV of Canada's first astronaut in space, Marc Garneau aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.

Charles Madge

As a sociologist, he co-founded Mass-Observation with Tom Harrisson in 1937, an endeavour which would occupy more of his time than literature.

Chori Chori

The music was yet another thrilling endeavour of Shankar Jaikishan, with tracks ranging soothing melodies such as "Aaja Sanam" and "Yeh raat Bheegi Bheegi" in voices of Lata Mangeshkar and Manna Dey, to fast beat songs such as "Jahan Mein Jati Hun" by Lata and Manna and "Sawa Lakh ki Lottery," with the vocals of the maestro Mohammad Rafi.

Dalyup River

The first European to discover the river was Surveyor General John Septimus Roe in 1848 who named it the Gore River after one of Captain James Cook's crew from the Endeavour, Lieutenant John Gore.

Donald J. Kutyna

Kutyna is perhaps most famous for his aid in several investigations of NASA launch failures, especially his membership on the Rogers Commission investigating the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

Fondu fyre

Fondue Fyre was used to repair the damage done on May 31, 2008 to launchpad 39A during the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-124.

Foreign relations of Singapore

In December 2004, during the disaster wrought by the massive tsunami that hit Indonesia, the Singapore Armed Forces dispatched three Endurance class landing platform dock ships - RSS Endurance, RSS Persistence and RSS Endeavour off the coast of Meulaboh, one of the worst hit areas where all road access was cut off.

Harry Kirkwood

On 17 March 1958, at the end of the Expedition, Kirkwood was waiting for Vivian Fuchs, Sir Edmund Hillary and the rest of the Expedition with the Endeavour to transport them back to Wellington.

Henry Jerome de Salis

Harriet Blosset was the girl who in 1768 had been led to believe by Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) that he would marry her on his return from his journey with Cook on the Endeavour.

Herman Spöring, Sr.

His son Herman Diedrich Spöring Jr. (or Spoering) (1733-1771), a Finnish explorer and botanist, was one of the scientific personnel who accompanied James Cook on the 1768-71 HM Bark Endeavour expedition to the Pacific.

HMNZS Endeavour

HMNZS Endeavour may refer to one of the following ships of the Royal New Zealand Navy named in honour of Captain Cook's Bark Endeavour.

HMS Challenger

The research ship Glomar Challenger and the Space Shuttle Challenger were named after this ship.

James C. Fletcher

During his second administration at NASA, Fletcher was largely involved in efforts to recover from the Space Shuttle Challenger accident.

Josiah Symon

In 1907 he visited the Public Record Office in London while on a holiday, and campaigned for the logs of Captain James Cook's ships HM Bark Endeavour and HMS Resolution to be brought to Australia, in the same way that the log of the Mayflower had been taken to Boston in the United States.

Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan

Ramakrishnan’s close association with literary and cultural luminaries, which included M. Govindan, Ayyappa Paniker, M. V. Devan, P. K. Balakrishnan, O. N. V. Kurup, Kavalam Narayana Panicker and K. V. Thampi, helped him in the endeavour to give a popular image to Malayalam poetry recital.

Karen Hesse

Stowaway, based on the true story of an 11-year-old boy who stowed away on Captain James Cook's ship Endeavour in 1768.

Klingon Language Institute

Speers is known for having undertaken the endeavour to raise his child bilingually in English and Klingon; Speers spoke in Klingon and his wife in English.

Liu Bocheng

In the Red Army’s endeavour against the KMT's Fifth Encirclement Campaign, Liu was demoted to Chief of Staff of the 5th Field Army following his dissidence with Bo and Braun.

Matterhorn Museum

The museum displays one of the two stones that Claude Nicollier took from the summit and brought with him on the Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-61 mission in 1993.

Michael D. Leinbach

In 2003, following Space Shuttle Columbia's breakup upon re-entry, Leinbach was the leader of the initial debris recovery team in Texas, and Louisiana.

MV Reef Endeavour

MV Reef Endeavour built in Suva Fiji and was the first ship to contact the Great Barrier Reef as an attraction, in 1996, an important milestone for tourism in Australia.

Nathaniel Westlake

The subjects were 'Lady Jane Grey discourses with Roger Ascham' and 'By Industry and Perseverance', symbolising the importance of female endeavour in higher education.

Operation Coldstore

The pro-communists, led by Lim Chin Siong strongly opposed this merger and were challenging the government of Singapore headed by Lee Kuan Yew of the People's Action Party (PAP) in their endeavour to establish a socialist state.

Petr Ginz

Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, whose mother and grandmother were survivors of Auschwitz, was asked by S. Isaac Mekel, director of development at the American Society for Yad Vashem, to take an item from Yad Vashem onto the American Space Shuttle Columbia.

Port Lihou Island

The Zenobia entered Endeavour Strait in January 1823, and discovered a shallow port on the south coast of Prince of Wales Island, subsequently named Port Lihou.

Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport

On September 20, the Space Shuttle Discovery was transported from Edwards Air Force Base to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with stops in Amarillo, Carswell AFB in Ft.Worth, and Barksdale AFB in Louisiana.

On July 1, 2007 the Space Shuttle Atlantis made a stop at the airport while being piggybacked from Edwards Air Force Base to Florida—one of the few visits by the shuttle to a commercial airport.

In 2003 the airport terminal building was rededicated to NASA astronaut Rick Husband, the commander of mission STS-107 of the Space Shuttle Columbia and an Amarillo native.

Rob Inglis

His plays include Voyage of the Endeavour (1965), based on the journal of Captain James Cook; Canterbury Tales (1968), dramatised readings from Chaucer; Erf (1971), a one-actor play about the twenty-first century; A Rum Do (1970), a musical based on the governorship of Lachlan Macquarie; and Men Who Shaped Australia, for Better or for Worse (1968), a one-actor play dealing with significant historical figures.

Scott Base

This was later changed to Pram Point as it provided better access for offloading supplies from the Expedition ship HMNZS Endeavour and also allowed for the operation of the critical RNZAF Antarctic Flight on a nearby ice runway.

STS-97

Mission Specialists Joseph Tanner and Carlos Noriega moved through Endeavours docking tunnel and opened the hatch to the ISS docking port to leave supplies and computer hardware on the doorstep of the Station.

From inside Endeavour, Canadian Mission Specialist Marc Garneau used the Canadarm to remove the P6 truss from the payload bay, maneuvering it into an overnight park position to warm its components.

Tollesbury

The centre of the sign shows the yacht 'Endeavour II' which was the 1937 British challenger for the America's Cup while on the left is depicted the fishing smack 'Sallie'.

Tracking and Data Relay Satellite

The first Tracking and Data Relay Satellite was launched in 1983 on the Space Shuttle Challenger's first flight, STS-6.

Tupaia

Tupaia (navigator) — an 18th Century Tahitian navigator, arioi ("high priest") of local noble lineage, who accompanied Lt. James Cook as navigational guide on the latter's famous first voyage of discovery in HM Bark Endeavour.

USS Enterprise

Space Shuttle Enterprise (OV-101), the first Space Shuttle Orbiter, used for test flights in earth atmosphere, landing procedures, and ground tests between 1975 and 1985.

Yury Lonchakov

Landing was originally planned at KSC however continuing cloud cover, rain showers and gusty winds forced Endeavour to land at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Ziri ibn Manad

Ziri had the residence of Ashir built south of the future site of Algiers in 935, in which endeavour he was supported by the Fatimids with craftsmen and architects.


see also

Weill Cornell Medical College

Mae C. Jemison (M.D. '81), former astronaut, Science Mission Specialist on STS-47, Spacelab-J of space shuttle Endeavour (September 1992)