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... display. Endeavour then will travel through Inglewood and Los Angeles city streets on a 12-mile journey from the airport to the science center, arriving in the evening on Oct. 13 ... 299 days in orbit, and orbited Earth 4,671 times while traveling 122,883,151 miles. ''MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-176 NASA TV AIRS LIVE KICKOFF OF 2012 ZERO ROBOTICS COMPETITION'' WASHINGTON ... final competition will be held in January 2013 at MIT and aboard the station, 250 miles above the Earth. There is no cost to participate in the Zero Robotics program, and ...

... provide a backup system for the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile, which was a 5,000-mile range. The job that the laboratory had was to provide a self-contained, that is ... was practicing, that he was identifying what he called the horizon was really about twenty miles different than the actual horizon, so that was okay, as long as he was consistent ... ground was checking, and it was discovered that really the bias…should have been…ten miles instead of twenty. So this bias number was in the erasable portion of the memory ...

... anywhere from an 18- to 21-degree glide slope, a little bit more than 300 miles an hour, hurtling your body at the ground. They put the main landing gear down ... land and stop on the runway. And you lose a knot per second, one nautical mile per hour per second. It’s just demonstrates clicking off. Going through about 400 feet ... River, it was tobacco country. When you crossed the county line, all you saw for miles around were fields of tobacco; families that were inbred. You name it about the country ...

... what's there now, but between Carnarvon and Perth was one town, which was 300 miles away, halfway, called Geraldton. So you usually flew up there, flew back. Hardly anybody ever ... was another station, which is now closed, which is located down on, oh, about 600 miles south of Phoenix. There wasn't much there then. Now it's a big fishing ... the Rose Knot. We were sitting out off of San Juan Puerto Rico , about 600 miles north of San Juan, and we were just wallowing there. We were on position. If ...

... kilometers) and sent back to Earth on July 20. Features as small as a half-mile (1 kilometer) across are visible. Pluto’s icy mountains have company. NASA’s New Horizons ... Regio (Tombaugh Region). These newly-discovered frozen peaks are estimated to be one-half mile to one mile (1-1.5 kilometers) high, about the same height as the United States’ Appalachian ... region within Pluto’s heart called Sputnik Planum (Sputnik Plain). The peaks lie some 68 miles (110 kilometers) northwest of Norgay Montes. This newest image further illustrates the remarkably well-defined ...

... that you can rendezvous. This means separating the two spacecraft by a couple of hundred miles (over three hundred kilometers apart) and then bringing them back together again. We had been ... over our payload bay (even thought we were both moving around the Earth at 5 miles per second). Claude then maneuvered the arm’s end-effector onto one of the two ... flight hardware. In addition, our exercise regimen involved weight training and running 4 to 6 miles each day. We generally began classwork at 8 AM with only short breaks for lunch ...

... -double 1971 growth rate. Total 1972 traffic was estimated at 47 120 million ton-miles. Revenue-passenger-miles flown increased 13% over 1971, with estimated 450 million passengers flown. U.S. international carriers showed 22.5% increase in revenue- passenger-miles, with 12% increase in available seat-miles. Load factors rose 4.8% over 50% level of 1971. U.S. domestic carriers increased revenue-passenger-miles 11.20J0, with only 1.9% increase in available seat-miles. Average load factor rose to 52.4% from 48% in ...

... . Mueller , told Annual Kiwanis Dinner in Milledgeville, Ga. "I recently calculated the costs per seat mile of their first flight for comparison with our Apollo flight to the moon. They probably ... dollars invested in first Kitty Hawk flight that went one fifth of a mile, giving a cost per seat mile for Orville of fifty thousand dollars. We will have about twenty-four ... hundred million dollars each, that's less than one hundred and fifty dollars a seat mile, so we are going in the right direction." ''(Text)'' INTELSAT conference of 67 countries and ...

... launches. Sodium clouds were released at near 120 statute miles and again at 228 miles in first launch, and at 118 and 230 miles in the second launch. French scientists participated by using ... and yellow clouds which stirred a rash of public inquiries to newspapers from hundreds of miles around. U.S.S.R. announced that it had fired new, powerful carrier rocket more than 7,400 miles to within less than five-eighths of a mile from its Central Pacific target. Soviet Marshal Kiril S. Moskalenko, chief ...

... pieces came down June 28. The objects were in an orbit 121 miles high at the lowest point and 215 miles at the highest. The orbit was inclined at 64.4°, a ... successfully bounced off a reflecting mirror on Discovery , which was flying at 17500 miles per hour and 230 miles high, the Washington Post reported. It was not clear why Discovery was out ... special effects produced in Hollywood were the immensity of Hurricane Josephine as seen from 200 miles overhead and the silence of a satellite drifting noiselessly in the blackness of space. The ...

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