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unusual facts about space program



Kenneth Weaver

Weaver's career is particularly notable because of his coverage of the NASA space program, from articles such as "Countdown for Space" in May 1961, "And Now to Touch the Moon's Forbidding Face", May 1969, and "Journey to Mars", February 1973.

Primarily Primates

Animals at the shelter include primates formerly used in animal research, chimpanzees retired from the United States Air Force (mostly Holloman Air Force Base) and the NASA space program, and Oliver, a chimpanzee exhibited around the world for many years and often referred to as the "humanzee," because of speculation in the past that he might be part human.

Space Dogs

During the end credits, real-life archive footage from the Soviet Space Program and Space Dogs is shown.


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Astro Pops

Astro Pops were first made in 1963 after two rocket scientists working on the space program in El Segundo, CA decided to quit their jobs and create the Astro Pop, modeling the pop after a three-stage rocket.

Bradley Trevor Greive

Greive has also qualified for the Russian Space program by completing testing at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Moscow, and in 2006 won the French Polynesian Ha'a'piti Rock lifting championships.

CDFS

cdfs, a Plan 9 user-space program, is also covered by the above article.

Cora Cohen

Cohen has been a Yaddo Foundation Fellow and the recipient of awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the NEA, the New York State Council for the Arts, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Program, and recently, the Edward F. Albee Foundation.

Cristina de Middel

De Middel self-published The Afronauts in 2012, a photobook about the short-lived Zambian space program in Southern Africa.

Herman von Klempt

Among these was Project Vampir Sturm (1944, proposed by Heinrich Himmler); Project Ragna Rok (The Fatal Destiny), which resulted in the appearance of Hellboy in a church in East Bromwich, England (December 23, 1944); and, lastly, the Nazi Space Program.

HMH-461

As part of the U.S. Space Program in 1961, HMR(M)-461 participated as the primary recovery vehicle for NASA AeroBee Rocket launches at Wallops Island, Virginia In February 1962, HMR(M)-461 was redesignated Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron-461 (HMH-461).

Joseph L. Green

His chief employment was in the American space program for which he worked for 37 years, retiring from NASA as Deputy Chief of the Education Office at Kennedy Space Center.

Military Highway

However, that roadway was later renamed to honor the Project Mercury space program of NASA at Langley Air Force Base.

Scientific research on the International Space Station

In May 2011, Space Shuttle Endeavour mission STS-134 is due to carry 13 Lego kits to the ISS, where astronauts will build models and see how they react in microgravity, as part of the Lego Bricks in Space program.

Space city

Titusville, Florida, a city in Florida associated with the US space program

Space Dogs

After being caught the dogs are put on a train to Baikonur where they ended up at a Soviet space program training center.

Texas Prison Rodeo

The rodeo became part of the history of the US space program when, during the training for the 1975 Apollo–Soyuz mission, NASA brought the cosmonauts in training, along with other Soviet personnel, to the Huntsville rodeo.

Theodore Freeman

Oriana Fallaci's If the Sun Dies, a book on the early days of the American space program, features an account of Freeman.

To Sail Beyond the Sunset

Maureen lives through, and gives her (sometimes contradictory) viewpoints on many events in other Heinlein stories, most notably the 1917 visit from the future by "Ted Bronson" (in actuality Lazarus Long), told from Long's point of view in Time Enough for Love, D. D. Harriman's space program from The Man Who Sold the Moon and the rolling roads from The Roads Must Roll.

Voskhod 1

The Soviet space program viewed its crews as passengers more than pilots; the new cosmonauts received only three to four months of training, perhaps the briefest in space history other than that received by the American politicians Jake Garn and Bill Nelson for Space Shuttle flights in the 1980s.

Walter Haeussermann

His contributions to the space program were recognized with the Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service in 1959.