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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock, is in cinemas everywhere from 17th February. The film tells the story from inside the young mind of Oskar Schell, an inventive eleven year-old New Yorker. Oskar’s discovery of a key
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S66-25779_G08-H Agena at 210 feet, motor end turned 45* toward Gemini VIII, sea, clouds, limb, sky in background. Gemini VIII launched with some guy named Neil Armstrong in command, his first time in space. One of the primary objectives was to perform th
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In this Tuesday, July 5, 2011 picture, NASA Mission Control founder Chris Kraft stands in the old Mission Control at Johnson Space Center in Houston. First moonwalker Neil Armstrong, first American in orbit John Glenn, Mission Control founder Kraft,... View Photo »
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100th Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs RAF MILDENHALL, England - The Apollo 11 commander landed at RAF Mildenhall's Galaxy Club March 11 to share stories about America's greatest achievements in aerospace. Accompanying Neil Armstrong on the "Legends of
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All Gemini spacecraft were launched by Titan II rockets, modified from Titan II intercontinental ballistic missiles. The first two Gemini missions were unmanned tests, making Gemini 3 the first manned launch. Aboard were Gus Grissom and John Young. S65-1
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January 31, 2012 / 3:02 p.m. CT (2102 GMT) Departure: Shannon Lucid, who more than three decades ago became one of the first women to join NASA's astronaut corps, has retired from the space agency. A veteran of five spaceflights, Lucid spent more than 22
About Jim Lovell
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James "Jim" Arthur Lovell, Jr. , (born March 25, 1928) is a former NASA astronaut, most famous as the commander of Apollo 13, which suffered an explosion enroute to the Moon but was brought back safely to Earth by the efforts of the crew and mission control. Lovell was also the command module pilot of Apollo 8, the first Apollo mission to enter... Full Article
