• The selection process for Mission 13 and 14 of the Discovery program began in February 2014, as NASA drafted an Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for the...
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    The Discovery Program is a series of Solar System exploration missions funded by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) through...
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    Apollo 14 (January 31 – February 9, 1971) was the eighth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, the third to land on the Moon, and the first...
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    confirmed planets as of June 16, 2023. The Kepler space telescope was part of NASA's Discovery Program of relatively low-cost science missions. The telescope's...
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  • The fourth season of the American television series Star Trek: Discovery follows the crew of the starship Discovery in the 32nd century, more than 900...
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    Ellen Ochoa (category Fellows of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
    aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1993. The purpose of the Shuttle mission was to study the Earth's ozone layer. A veteran of four space flights, Ochoa...
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    month after the selection of Discovery proposals that a NASA Europa orbiter mission would be conducted. JPL then invited the Discovery proposal team to...
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    mission—the ninth in NASA's Discovery Program—Dawn entered orbit around Vesta on July 16, 2011, and completed a 14-month survey mission before leaving for Ceres...
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    InSight (redirect from Discovery mission 12)
    Apollo 11 in 1969, and also by Apollo 12, 14, 15 and 16 missions and provided many insights into lunar seismology, including the discovery of moonquakes. The...
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    mission in NASA's Space Shuttle program; during the mission, Space Shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station. It was Discovery's 39th...
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    objectives. The Discovery and New Frontiers programs were established in 1992 and 2001 respectively, and have launched fourteen primary missions together, along...
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    Lisa Nowak (category American people convicted of assault)
    1996, qualifying as a mission specialist in robotics. She flew in space aboard Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS-121 mission in July 2006, when she...
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    probationary period/selection process of three months for Para (Special Forces) battalions (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 21, 23 and 29 PARA SF)...
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    Ken Mattingly (category Apollo 13)
    Navy, and astronaut who flew on Apollo 16 and Space Shuttle STS-4 and STS-51-C missions. Mattingly was scheduled to fly on the Apollo 13 mission, but three...
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    two subsequent missions left, it was changed to the first of three J missions. Apollo 13's Fra Mauro mission was reassigned to Apollo 14, commanded in...
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    Judith Resnik (category Recipients of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor)
    Shuttle flight, and the maiden voyage of Space Shuttle Discovery, where her duties included operating its robotic arm. Her second Shuttle mission was STS-51-L...
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  • first season of the American television series Star Trek: Discovery is set a decade before Star Trek: The Original Series in the 23rd century and follows the...
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    The retirement of NASA's Space Shuttle fleet took place from March to July 2011. Discovery was the first of the three active Space Shuttles to be retired...
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    DAVINCI (category Discovery program proposals)
    NASA selected DAVINCI+ as one of the next Discovery class missions. The mission's name was reverted to DAVINCI after selection. The DAVINCI Principal Investigator...
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    or lunar landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, including both crewed and robotic missions. The first human-made object to...
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    New Horizons (redirect from Pluto mission)
    category, larger and more expensive than the Discovery missions but smaller than the missions of the Flagship Program. The cost of the mission, including spacecraft...
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    Eileen Collins (category Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences alumni)
    Group 13. She flew the Space Shuttle as the pilot of the 1995 STS-63 mission, which involved a space rendezvous between Space Shuttle Discovery and the...
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    the sample size and selection method used in the Nature effort, and suggested a "flawed study design" (in Nature's manual selection of articles, in part...
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    Sergei Krikalev (category Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples)
    "Andrei Ujica «Out of the Present» 1995. | Φrbit° sφaceφlace :: art in the age øf Φrbitizatiøn". www.orbit.zkm.de. "Il cosmonauta sovietico rimasto nello spazio...
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    Ellison Onizuka (category Recipients of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor)
    space mission took place on January 24, 1985, with the launch of mission STS 51-C on Space Shuttle Discovery, the first Space Shuttle mission for the...
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    NASA Astronaut Group 16 (category Lists of astronauts)
    from the Astronaut Corps and reassigned to the U.S. Navy) STS-121 Discovery (ISS resupply mission; second Return to Flight mission after the Space Shuttle...
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    Stephen Bowen (astronaut) (category MIT School of Engineering alumni)
    during a few of their Mission Discovery programs. Here he shares his experiences with students as well as try to teach them new skills and influence them...
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  • This is a list of episodes of the American series American Pickers. The series premiered on January 18, 2010, on History. As of March 27, 2024,[update]...
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    Curtis Brown (category Recipients of the Defense Superior Service Medal)
    commanded a member of the Mercury 7 on a mission. Brown's sixth and final spaceflight was STS-103 as commander aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. Lifting off...
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    for the Discovery 13 selection included a mission called Merlin, which would flyby Deimos but actually orbit and land on Phobos, and another one is Pandora...
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