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Hace 2 días · The Apollo 13 crew (Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert), while passing over the far side of the Moon at an altitude of 254 km (158 mi) from the lunar surface, were 400,171 km (248,655 mi) from Earth. This record-breaking distance was reached at 00:21 UTC on 15 April 1970. Highest altitude for crewed non-lunar mission
Hace 2 días · The Educator Astronaut Project is a remarkable initiative by NASA. Its objective is to cultivate excitement and interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) among students. This project is the successor to the 'Teacher in Space Program' of the 1980s, which was cancelled after the tragic loss of teacher-astronaut Christa ...
Hace 3 días · One of the most pivotal moments in American history was the Apollo 13 mission by astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise. They attempted to go to the moon in 1970, but an explosion ...
Hace 2 días · The 1964 FBI reward poster for three missing civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner. Chaney, a Meridian native, posthumously received a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Hace 3 días · The first Hispanic woman to launch into space is now the second female astronaut to be awarded the United States' highest honor. Ellen Ochoa was bestowed with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
They mention it twice. While he’s laying in the lawn chairs with his wife at the house party at the start of the movie he says something like “on 8 we were so close you could reach out and touch it”, and then when they’re coming around the dark side of the moon on 13, Swigert and Haise ask him if he wants to look at Earth-rise through the window and he says he’s seen it before.
Hace 5 días · Other Mississippi natives who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom include B.B. King, Eudora Welty, Oprah Winfrey and Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise. Slain civil rights leader Medgar Wiley Evers was recognized by President Joe Biden during a ceremony at the White House.
