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Anna Fisher in 1985 - one of the first US women in space, and the longest running active NASA astronaut.
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Time to drive 10 km:
10 km/h — 60 min
20 km/h — 30 min
30 km/h — 20 min
40 km/h — 15 min
50 km/h — 12 min
60 km/h — 10 min
70 km/h — 8:34
80 km/h — 7:30
90 km/h — 6:40
100 km/h — 6:00
110 km/h — 5:27
120 km/h — 5:00
130 km/h — 4:37
Going from 10 to 20 saves 30 minutes. Going from 120 to 130 saves 23 seconds.
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
in 1965, the Ranger 9 spacecraft made a planned impact on the Moon. This video shows Ranger's last couple of seconds before impact.
Between the time it was discovered and the time it was declassified as a planet, Pluto did not even complete one revolution around the sun!
Soviet spacecraft "Soyuz", photo from the ship "Apollo". The Soyuz and Apollo spacecraft docked on July 17, 1975, in a demonstration of how well the rendezvous and docking systems of each spacecraft would work with each other.
