Rocket scientists at work. Engineers at the Kennedy Space Center prepare the Command Module for #Apollo9, Mar 1969. A9 was the 2nd crewed Saturn V flight & the 1st #space test of the complete Apollo #spacecraft. 6 months later, Apollo 11 landed on the 🌔. #astronaut#nasa
UAE Astronaut programme is a gateway for Emiratis to let the world witness their potential in science & technology;set a benchmark for the Arab world & make #UAE#proud .No matter what field you belong to;you can apply for UAE Astronaut: https://t.co/lzpsOX6xTQ
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This is history in the making and you’re a part of it! #UAE will soon become the 7th country in the world to have sent an #astronaut into outer #Space , and you could be the one!
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The while road (& 🌔) to himself. #Astronaut Dave Scott with the Lunar Rover on #Apollo15, Aug 1971. The USPS issued a stamp celebrating a decade of #space exploration from Shepard’s 15-min suborbital flight on Proj Mercury in 1961 to a 3-day #moonlanding with a LRV on A15. #nasa
Happy International Women's Day! We're celebrating the women who have changed the world.
Here are amazing astronauts who contributed to our future in space. #WomensDay2018#WomenInSpace#astronaut#women
👨🚀#CIMON is back 🛬 from its first parabolic flight in #ZeroGravity and everything worked well 👌.
Learn more about CIMON, the #astronaut assistant system: https://t.co/ALxDgz9K2D
Gene Cernan, the last man on the 🌔, with the Lunar Rover during #Apollo17, Dec 1972. Mr. Cernan piloted Gemini 9A in ‘66 & was Lunar Module pilot on #Apollo10 in ‘69. Follow A17, a 12.5 day mission, all Apollo hardware was used on Skylab & Apollo-Soyuz. #astronaut#nasa#space
Most of us live a simple life but many of us choose to be a ‘Hero,’ who the world looks up to! With #UAE#astronaut Programme; you also have an #opportunity to #create#history, to contribute to #mankind just like ‘#YuriGagarin did by becoming the First man to enter into #Space
Space age fashion. Gordon Cooper flew Mercury 9 in his Faith 7 spacecraft to close out Project Mercury. It was a 34-hr, 22 🌏 orbit mission in 1963 in which he became the 1st #astronaut to sleep in #space. He also piloted Gemini 5; a 7-day, 23 hr flight in 1965. #NASA#spaceman
Its a mere coincidence that you pictured with #WhitneyMYoung alumni & my new fav #astronaut 😍😍 cool pic! You get cool points😘 #TeamEnt#CHICAGO https://t.co/YUwfHyXclr
You have the #opportunity to meet ‘Salem Al Marri, Asst. Director General for Scientific and Technical Affairs, MBRSC at ‘#CareersUAE ’ and discuss your expertise, education and experience for the #UAE#astronaut Programme. Don’t miss out on this opportunity! 13 – 15 March, 2018
When suborbital spacecraft begin traveling to low-Earth orbit, a group of citizen-scientist #astronaut candidates (who trained at ERAU) will be on board for some of the first flights: https://t.co/HHXdDy0cPw #space
Off to work. Astronauts Gus Grissom & John Young suited for Gemini 3, Mar 1965. It was the 1st crewed mission in Project Gemini & the last with Mission Control at Cape Kennedy; it then moved to Houston. The pair flew 3 low 🌏 orbits in just under 5 hours. #astronaut#nasa#space
An out-of-this-world exhibition is coming to #RIT's University Gallery, which will display space photos taken by #astronaut Donald Pettit. He will speak at the March 22 reception and again later that day. Details: https://t.co/kIS7tIPaDU
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Project Mercury featured 6 crewed flights & was NASA’s 1st space program from 1958-63. Each #astronaut named their #spacecraft. Alan Shepard flew 1st, 3 weeks after Yuri Gagarin’s historic orbital flight. Gordon Cooper flew last. 7 Group 1 #astronauts were chosen for P.M. #nasa