Luna 24 | ... ther major achievement of the Luna programme, with the Luna 16, Luna 20 and | spacecraft, was the ability to collect samples of lunar soil and return th ... |
London Missionary Society | ... t Nukulaelae. Elekana began proselytizing Christianity. He was trained in a | school in Samoa before beginning his work in establishing the Church of Tu ... |
STS-121 | ... the Challenger and Columbia disasters: STS-26 in 1988, STS-114 in 2005, and | in 2006. Discovery flew the third to the last mission of the Space Shuttle ... |
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster | ... ssion was further delayed by the hiatus in launches that occurred after the | . New safety protocols introduced as a result of the disaster prohibited t ... |
Irish monks | ... ntrolled region, only isolated Christian communities continued to exist and | re-introduced the Christian faith in the early 7th century |
Soyuz 18a | ... the tragic loss of the Soyuz 11 crew in July 1971 and the near-loss of the | crew during launch in April 1975. It eventually proved a success, with mis ... |
Wycliffe Bible Translators | JAARS serves | and other relief and missions organizations worldwide by providing transpo ... |
Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de los Nacogdoches | ... til the early 19th century. In 1716 when Spain established a mission there, | . That was the first European construction in the area. The "town" of Naco ... |
Advanced Composition Explorer | ... was change to circle the Earth and pass by the point occasionally. The NASA | (ACE) has monitored the solar wind at the point from 1997 to present. It i ... |
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster | ... erican astronaut with NASA. She was one of seven crew members killed in the | |
Mariner program | ... approximately two years after Mariner 9 and was the last spacecraft in the | (Mariner 11 and 12 were allocated to the Voyager program and redesignated ... |
Spanish missions in California | ... m Loreto, Baja California, Mexico to Sonoma, California, and connecting the | , was established through the heart of what would later be known as Agoura ... |
Hiberno-Scottish mission | ... figures went abroad to preach and found monasteries in what is known as the | . Saint Brieuc founded the city that bears his name in Brittany, Saint Col ... |
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster | ... nvironment of space. McNair's planned live performance was curtailed by the | on 28 January 1986. Consideration was given to the cancellation of the con ... |
Apollo 14 | ... amphibious assault ship USS New Orleans, performed the recovery mission of | . A specialist variant of the SH-3, the HH-3, also performed in this capac ... |
Mars Global Surveyor | In 1997, the | (MGS) orbiter was the first spacecraft to use aerobraking as the main plan ... |
broke up during re-entry | On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia | , depositing debris across Texas. Much of the debris landed in Nacogdoches ... |
STS-135 | ... d on (NET) February 24, 2011. Endeavour flew STS-134 and Atlantis performed | , NASA's last Space Shuttle mission. On February 24, 2011, Space Shuttle D ... |
Elim Christian Services | Additionally | offers a school for those with special needs |
Mission San Juan Bautista | ... rroterán in 1729 commanded an expedition on behalf of Spain to explore from | up the Rio Grande to the mouth of the Rio Conchos. Berroterán crossed the ... |
Apollo 11 | ... their colleague Neil Armstrong takes his first steps on the Moon during the | mission. Lovell, who orbited the Moon on Apollo 8, tells his wife Marilyn ... |
Apollo 13 | Astronauts Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise are launched aboard | for America's third Moon landing mission. En route, an onboard explosion d ... |
Great Commission | ... tee endorsed a proposal to give churches the option of calling themselves " | Baptists. |
Great Commission | ... central to the word "Trinity". The only possible exceptions to this are the | Matthew 28:16-20, 2 Corinthians 13:14, and the Comma Johanneum, which many ... |
STS-89 | ... ties in the Flight Support Branch of the Astronaut Office. Anderson flew on | and STS-107, logging over 593 hours in space |
broke up | ... the key search areas for wreckage from the Space Shuttle Columbia after it | over Texas. Search teams recovered some of the remains of the shuttle and ... |
STS-51-F | ... Spacelab 2 on August 9, 1978, and after seven years of training he flew on | / Spacelab-2. At mission conclusion, Acton had traveled over 2.8 million m ... |
Great Commission | They believe that the | of evangelizing the world is the duty of every Christian, and that their l ... |
Apollo 11 | ... ef of Police in Moon Valley. However, Tracy ended up back on Earth when the | mission in 1969 showed that the moon was barren of all life. Many of the a ... |
Soyuz TM-13 | ... as flight commander, and the Austrian research cosmonaut Franz Viehböck in | from the Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport, and spent over eight days in space ... |
mission | ... e for Natives. In 1838 Jean-Baptiste Proulx re-established a Roman Catholic | . The Jesuits took over the mission in 1845 |
Apollo 13 | ... screenplay by William Broyles, Jr. and Al Reinert, that dramatizes the 1970 | lunar mission, is an adaptation of the book by astronaut Jim Lovell (the s ... |
Stardust spacecraft | A silica-based aerogel was used in the | to collect extraterrestrial particles. Silica is also used in the extracti ... |
Jews for Jesus | ... r something, but not Christian rock." Susan Perlman, one of the founders of | traces the beginnings of her conversion to Norman sharing his faith with h ... |
STS-105 | After | , Discovery became the first of the orbiter fleet to undergo Orbiter Major ... |
Wycliffe Bible Translators | ... be translated to new languages, largely by Christian organisations such as | , New Tribes Mission and the Bible society |
Rhenish Missionary Society | ... ntral Bataks are Protestant Christians, a religion introduced by the German | |
North American Mission Board | ... reating a mission board to support the sending of Baptist missionaries. The | , or NAMB, (founded as the Domestic Mission Board, and later the Home Miss ... |
ISEE-3 | ... he utility of continuously monitoring the solar wind. IMP-8 was followed by | which was placed near the Sun-Earth Lagrangian point, 235 Earth radii abov ... |
London Missionary Society | Aitutaki was the first of the Cook Islands to accept Christianity, after | (LMS) missionary John Williams visited in 1821. The oldest church in the c ... |
STS-107 | ... crew members, shortly before it was scheduled to conclude its 28th mission, | |
Great Commission | ... mass media as factors necessitating the use of television to 'fulfill the " | " of the Gospel of Jesus to the generation of the 21st Century. |
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter | ... s severe as those of atmospheric reentry or aerocapture. Simulations of the | aerobraking use a force limit of 0.35 N per square meter with a spacecraft ... |
STS-34 | ... , it was launched on October 18, 1989, by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the | mission. It arrived at Jupiter on December 7, 1995, via gravitational assi ... |
Apollo 11 | ... of the 25 then-surviving Apollo astronauts, including the complete crews of | (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins) and Apollo 8 (Frank Bor ... |
Apollo 15 | ... , Alabama. While there, astronauts Jim Lovell and David Scott, commander of | , did actual training exercises with the actors inside a simulated Command ... |
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster | ... made international headlines in February 2003, after receiving much of the | debris |
STS-95 | ... ercury astronaut John Glenn, who was 77 at the time, back into space during | on October 29, 1998, making him the oldest person to go into space |
Luna 20 | Another major achievement of the Luna programme, with the Luna 16, | and Luna 24 spacecraft, was the ability to collect samples of lunar soil a ... |
Mission Revival | ... he city. The Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio Passenger Terminal is an example of the | style |
network of missions | ... da, including parts of present-day southern Georgia, and destroying Spain's | in the area |
STS-87 | After the completion of | post-flight activities, Chawla was assigned to technical positions in the ... |
network of missions | ... d penetrated the area. Spanish missionaries in La Florida had established a | to convert the indigenous inhabitants to Roman Catholicism. The Spanish po ... |
Bolivarian Missions | ... ast - to spearhead an opposition movement against Chavez." The programme of | was (until 2005) "virtually invisible in the mainstream press". Encouraged ... |
TMA-1 | ... Program after several months of cosmonaut training, and planned to join the | mission to the International Space Station. However, after his financial s ... |
STS-62-A | Had the planned | mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base in 1986 for the United States Depar ... |
SIL International | ... ry mission of JAARS is to serve Bible translators working with Wycliffe and | in their efforts to translate parts of the Bible into the 2,393 language g ... |
Terrestrial Planet Finder | ... g extrasolar terrestrial planets are also being designed. These include the | , Space Interferometry Mission, Darwin, New Worlds Mission, and Overwhelmi ... |
Spanish missions in California | ... illingness to work with non-Utes came out of his experiences working in the | . Whether that work was voluntary or part of the long-standing slave trade ... |
suppression of the Jesuits | ... an asylum and a base for re-grouping to the Society of Jesus following the | in most of Europe in 1773 |
STS-133 | ... Discovery flew the third to the last mission of the Space Shuttle program, | , having launched on (NET) February 24, 2011. Endeavour flew STS-134 and A ... |
STS-51-F | ... n March 7, 1936) is an American physicist who flew on Space Shuttle mission | as a Payload Specialist for the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory |
ill-fated STS-107 mission | ... n January 16, 2003, Chawla finally returned to space aboard Columbia on the | . Chawla's responsibilities included the microgravity experiments, for whi ... |
Solar Dynamics Observatory | ... coronal holes and in active regions using observations with AIA onboard the | |
Soyuz 23 | ... from a Soyuz… control panels from the Mir", and the control console of the | , as well as dolls, dice, and fossils. During E3 2004 he passed off an old ... |
Apollo 11 | ... mples from the lunar surface, underwent its mission at the same time as the | mission. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were already on the lunar surface ... |
Luna 16 | Another major achievement of the Luna programme, with the | , Luna 20 and Luna 24 spacecraft, was the ability to collect samples of lu ... |
Mars Direct | ... iety founder Robert Zubrin produced a plan for a Mars return mission called | that would set up a permanent human presence on Mars and steer efforts tow ... |
Mariner 9 | ... ner-H (Mariner Mars '71), also commonly known as Mariner 8, was (along with | ) part of the Mariner Mars 71 project. It was intended to go into Mars orb ... |
Soyuz TMA-1 | ... received cosmonaut certification and was scheduled to fly into space on the | mission that was to be launched on October 30, 2002. The capsule was sched ... |
Apollo 13 | ... er uses. The moon landings continued through 1972, but the near loss of the | astronauts in April 1970 served to further anti-NASA feelings. Plans for m ... |
Soyuz 11 | ... ons. This would have problems of its own, especially the tragic loss of the | crew in July 1971 and the near-loss of the Soyuz 18a crew during launch in ... |
missions | ... in their parishes. He paid off the debts of others, supported education and | , and in a year of food shortages gave to charity more than his own yearly ... |
STS-87 | ... part of the six-astronaut crew that flew the Space Shuttle Columbia flight | . Chawla was the first Indian-born woman and the second Indian person to f ... |
STS-114 | ... ight" missions after the Challenger and Columbia disasters: STS-26 in 1988, | in 2005, and STS-121 in 2006. Discovery flew the third to the last mission ... |
New Tribes Mission | ... ges, largely by Christian organisations such as Wycliffe Bible Translators, | and the Bible society |
London Missionary Society | ... in establishing the Church of Tuvalu. In 1865 the Rev. A. W. Murray of the | – a Protestant congregationalist missionary society – arrived as the first ... |
International Mission Board | ... nvolved in evangelism and church planting in the U.S. and Canada, while the | , or IMB, (originally the Foreign Mission Board) in Richmond, Virginia spo ... |
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster | Chawla died in the | which occurred on February 1, 2003, when the Space Shuttle disintegrated o ... |
Mariner program | Mariner 1 was the first spacecraft of the American | . Launched on July 22, 1962 as a Venus flyby mission, a range safety offic ... |
STS-61 | ... Help from My Friends" was played as wake-up music on Space Shuttle Mission | |
STS-41-D | ... ce agency of the United States, and was operational from its maiden flight, | on August 30, 1984, until its final landing during STS-133 on March 9, 201 ... |
SIL International | The open-source script rtf2xml can partially convert RTF to XML. | ’s freeware application for developing and publishing dictionaries uses RT ... |
Mars Observer | ... sity, of roughly 0.2 N (0.04 lbf) per square meter, that was exerted on the | , during aerobraking is comparable to the force of a 40 mph (60 km/h) wind ... |
Spanish mission | Mission Santa Clara de Asís is a | founded by the Franciscan order in the present-day city of Santa Clara, Ca ... |
Apollo 11 | ... all over the world, into a new era." On July 16, 1969, Johnson attended the | launch—the first former or incumbent US president to witness a rocket laun ... |
Apollo 13 | ... he Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center's Space Works, who also restored the | Command Module. Two individual Lunar Modules and two Command Modules were ... |
Mariner 9 | ... he planets Mercury and Venus. It was launched approximately two years after | and was the last spacecraft in the Mariner program (Mariner 11 and 12 were ... |
STS-127 | ... nications satellite. Douglas G. Hurley, NASA astronaut and pilot of mission | , became the first alumnus to travel in outer space in July 2009. Christop ... |
mission | ... te" is derived from "Kente", which was the name of an early French Catholic | located on the south shore of what is now Prince Edward County |
STS-133 | ... maiden flight, STS-41-D on August 30, 1984, until its final landing during | on March 9, 2011. Discovery has flown more than any other spacecraft havin ... |
Apollo 11 | ... nk much about the sea urchin until 10 years later, when he was watching the | Moon landing on television, and he came to a sudden realization. He immedi ... |
STS-26 | ... ee "return to flight" missions after the Challenger and Columbia disasters: | in 1988, STS-114 in 2005, and STS-121 in 2006. Discovery flew the third to ... |
STS-107 | In 2000 she was selected for her second flight as part of the crew of | . This mission was repeatedly delayed due to scheduling conflicts and tech ... |
STS-134 | ... rogram, STS-133, having launched on (NET) February 24, 2011. Endeavour flew | and Atlantis performed STS-135, NASA's last Space Shuttle mission. On Febr ... |
first Apollo Moon landing | ... eight months after his arrival in the U.S—their first date was watching the | on television. They shared an apartment in Santa Monica for three and a ha ... |