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unusual facts about capsule



305th Air Mobility Wing

Having later commanded the Gemini 3 mission in 1965, Lieutenant Colonel Grissom was assigned as commander for the first manned Apollo mission, but was killed with the rest of his crew during a fire in his Apollo 1 capsule during a pre-launch rehearsal on Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy, Florida in January 1967.

Acrolepiopsis issikiella

The larvae feed on seeds in a capsule of Dioscorea species, but have also been recorded tunneling the stems, or feeding on the leaves of Dioscorea tokoro.

Aliiolani Hale

In December 2005, a capsule buried by Kamehameha V when he laid the cornerstone was located, at the direction of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, by Professor Larry Connors of the University of Denver using ground penetrating radar.

Capsule wardrobe

The concept of a capsule wardrobe was popularised by American designer Donna Karan in 1985, when she released her "7 Easy Pieces" collection.

Chad Myers

He was spoofed on Late Night with David Letterman after climbing into a mock-up of the Chilean miners' rescue capsule.

Detroit Century Box

Mayor William C. Maybury organized the capsule which consists of a copper box filled with photos and letters containing the then current state of affairs in Detroit along with predictions for the future.

Electrogastrogram

Telemetry capsule for the EGG monitoring in a stomach and an intestines.

Hans Moleman

As pointed out on The Simpsons Archive episode capsule for Sweets and Sour Marge, "When the people-ball is rolling toward Hans Moleman and Agnes Skinner, you can see another Moleman in the ball if you watch in slow motion.

Hypersonic flight

Soon after, in May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American and second person to achieve hypersonic flight when his capsule reentered the atmosphere at a speed above Mach 5 at the end of his suborbital flight over the Atlantic Ocean.

John W. Marchetti

For this effort, Marchetti, at Avco RAD, developed a 30-MHz pulsed radar that was set up at San Salvador Island to observe the ionized trail from a NASA Mercury capsule.

Kanak Rele

"Nritya Bharati", a documentary on India's classical dances produced by her Nalanda school has been acquired by the Ministry of External Affairs as the official capsule for all Indian missions abroad.

Kara Laricks

After presenting three capsule collections to buyers from H&M, Macy's and Saks Fifth Avenue, Jessica Simpson responded that Laricks challenged "every woman to step outside the box."

Laura Chislett

Laura Chislett, also known as Laura Chislett Jones, is an Australian flute player, known for performing contemporary repertoire such as Brian Ferneyhough's 'Unity Capsule', James Dillon's 'Sgothan', Michael Finnissy's 'Sikangnuqa, Reza Vali's 'Song', Maurice Weddington's 'Deovolente', and unusual late-Romantic repertoire.

Les Schneider

He and his 10-man sea rescue crew aboard Naha Rescue One (a DC-4 aircraft) were on emergency alert to rescue the Gemini 8 capsule containing Neil Armstrong and Maj. David Scott in case of an emergency re-entry.

Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals

These monsters can be fed items and equipment, and once they are satiated they evolve to a different form, up to a fifth and definitive form, labeled M. Seven of them exist, and each Capsule monster belongs to a different element (Neutral, Light, Wind, Water, Dark, Fire and Soil), and has a different set of skills.

Mercury-Atlas 1

NASA's Owen Maynard, who was involved in Mercury systems engineering, led the recovery of the MA-1 capsule from the sea-floor (in which he performed a 30-foot free-dive to find one particular missing component of the capsule).

North American Time Capsule

North American Time Capsule is a 1967 composition by American experimental composer Alvin Lucier.

Patton Design, Inc.

Patton Design was also featured on ABC's American Inventor and represented the million dollar winner with the "Anecia Survival Capsule", the second place winner with "The WordAce", as well as the third place winner with "The Catch Elite".

Paul C. Donnelly

Gilruth sent Donnelly to Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1959, where he served as a capsule (spacecraft) test conductor for all Project Mercury and Gemini launches.

Point Dume

The pilot episode of I Dream of Jeannie filmed at Point Dume which served as the deserted South Pacific Island where astronaut Tony Nelson's (Larry Hagman) capsule washed ashore and he released (Barbara Eden) Jeannie from 2,000 years of imprisonment.

Posterior limb of internal capsule

The anterior two-thirds of the occipital part of the internal capsule contains fibers of the corticospinal tract, which arise in the motor area of the cerebral cortex and, passing downward through the middle three-fifths of the base of the cerebral peduncle, are continued into the pyramids of the medulla oblongata.

Project 921-3

Some small models for a space plane were made public, but the concept was rejected in favor of a Soyuz-like capsule which became Shenzhou.

Raduga

VBK-Raduga, an unmanned reentry capsule used to return material from the Russian Mir space station

Recipharm

2008 - Acquisition of: Lyophilisation facility in Switzerland, A capsule production facility in Fontaine-lès-Dijon, France, The majority share of an AstraZeneca biotech laboratory in Södertälje, Sweden.

Saint Louis Science Center

On the day that a full-scale replica of the Apollo space capsule was put on display, 3,000 visitors came through the doors.

Samskrita Bharati

Chamu Krishna Shastry, a Sanskrit Scholar from Tirupati Sanskrit College along with 5 of his friends, after graduating in Sanskrit, came up with a methodology of teaching spoken Sanskrit through "Speak Samskritam" course with 10 day capsule classes of 2 hour duration.

Shin guard

The earliest known physical proof of the technology appeared when archaeologist Sir William Temple discovered a pair of bronze greaves with a Gorgon’s head design in the relief on each knee capsule.

SpaceShipOne flight 15P

Pilot Mike Melvill opened a bag of M&M's and watched them float around the capsule in free-fall.

Strange Change Machine

The Strange Change Machine was a Mattel toy from the late 1960s, in which "shape memory" plastic figures of prehistoric animals & science fiction-like creatures could be reconstituted from compressed "time capsule" form, and re-compressed back into that form.

Strides Arcolab

USA - The company has a soft gelatin capsule plant at Somerset, New Jersey, USA.

Supreme Show

The entire album is produced by Yasutaka Nakata of capsule, and was released a week before Nakata's other effort with Capsule, "More! More! More!".

Takeshi Ueda

The stickers on his bass, among others, are: various Mad Capsule Markets logos, a Rat Fink sticker (of Ed Roth fame), a Cyborn on the 5 string, and a Pochi skull and crossbones logo.

The 4th Dimension

However, co-directors Tom Mattera and Dave Mazzoni are just as concerned with establishing Jack's reality in the present (in a bric-a-brac stuffed antique shop where he fixes clocks and other contraptions) and the past (where a dazzling single-shot scene dramatizes in capsule form the boy's sad life with his ill mom).

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

The killer put a deadly black widow spider inside a gelatin capsule, secretly attached it to the victim's body, and waited for the gelatin to melt from body heat, releasing the spider.

The Machine's Child

Joseph finds a time-travel capsule that Budu had hidden on Morro Rock and goes to Options Research in search of Mendoza.

The Simpsons Archive

The episode capsule is a convention that has since crossed over to many other TV show fansites and newsgroups, including co-Matt Groening animation Futurama.

The View from Saturday

but the parental guide Common Sense Media capsule is "Brilliant but complex novel for older kids".

The Wayback Machine

Wayback Machine, a digital time capsule created by the Internet Archive, a non-profit organization based in San Francisco, California.

Tricarpelema pumilum

The species looks like a smaller version of the closely related Tricarpelema philippense, but the two can be differentiated based on the size and shape of the capsule, as well as the number of seeds per locule.

USAS American Mariner

During Wally Schirra's MA-8 transits over the Pacific Ocean, the USAS American Mariner successfully provided radar track of the capsule.

VBK

VBK-Raduga, a reentry capsule that was used for returning materials from the Mir space station

Volguard II

The transparent capsule-like items that appear when the player goes to a specific location or after defeating certain enemies.

Wayback

Wayback Machine, a digital time capsule and archiving service for internet resources created by the Internet Archive

William C. Maybury

Also contains letter written to Annie M. Knott, one of the people invited to write letters for the time capsule

Young Engineers' Satellite 2

The centres were: Samara State Aerospace University, Russia (mission analysis, GPS); University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy (re-entry capsule); Hochschule Niederrhein in Krefeld, Germany (tether); University of Patras, Greece (mechanical and thermal).


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