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Members from the 106th Rescue Wing help evacuees from

STS-130 - LAUNCH - Public domain NASA photogrpaph

A 50th Anniversary Ceremony was held today in honor of the first rocket launch, called Bumper 8, from Pad 3 at Cape Canaveral on July 24, 1950. Members of the original Bumper 8 team reconvene at the ceremony with a Bumper 8 model rocket. The model was later launched as part of the festivities. Other activities included presentation of a Bumper Award to the Honorable George Kirkpatrick, State Senator, District 5; remarks by Center Director Roy Bridges and Commander, 45th Space Wing, Brig. Gen. Donald Pettit; and a reception at Hangar C. Bumper consisted of a German V-2 missile acting as the booster and a U.S. Army WAC Corporal rocket as the second stage. Since 1950 there have been a total of 3,245 launches from Cape Canaveral KSC-00pp0972

STS-132 - LAUNCH - Public domain NASA photogrpaph

STS-130 - LAUNCH - Public domain NASA photogrpaph

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Visit to NASA Plum Brook Station by Astronaut Sunita Williams

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Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) - Saturn Apollo Program

Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) - Saturn Apollo Program

Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) - Saturn Apollo Program

Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) - Saturn Apollo Program

Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) - Saturn Apollo Program

Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) - Saturn Apollo Program

Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) - Saturn Apollo Program

Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) - Saturn Apollo Program

Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) - Saturn Apollo Program

Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) - Saturn Apollo Program

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The fifth marned lunar landing mission, Apollo 15 (SA-510), carrying a crew of three astronauts: Mission commander David R. Scott, Lunar Module pilot James B. Irwin, and Command Module pilot Alfred M. Worden Jr., lifted off on July 26, 1971. Astronauts Scott and Irwin were the first to use a wheeled surface vehicle, the Lunar Roving Vehicle, or the Rover, which was designed and developed by the Marshall Space Flight Center, and built by the Boeing Company. Astronauts spent 13 days, nearly 67 hours, on the Moon's surface to inspect a wide variety of its geological features.

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26/07/1971
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Marshall Spaceflight Center, Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, United States, 35808 ,  34.63076, -86.66505
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Dr. Martin Renken, from the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC), Keyport Division, examines the University of Michigan's autonomous surface vehicle during static judging at the Office of Naval Research

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Baseball players - Arthur Irwin, Philadelphia Quakers

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NASA’s Lunar Prospector spacecraft launched successfully on its way to the moon from Launch Complex 46 (LC46) at Cape Canaveral Air Station on Jan. 6 at 9:28 p.m. EST. It was the inaugural launch of Lockheed Martin's Athena II launch vehicle and the first launch from LC46, operated by Spaceport Florida Authority. Lunar Prospector, built for the NASA Ames Research Center by Lockheed Martin, is a spin-stabilized spacecraft designed to provide NASA with the first global maps of the moon’s surface and its gravitational magnetic fields, as well as look for the possible presence of ice near the lunar poles. It will orbit the Moon at an altitude of approximately 63 miles during a one-year mission KSC-98pc105

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High angle view of Apollo 14 space vehicle on way to Pad A

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apollo 15 launch scott irwin worden lunar roving vehicle rover msfc marshall space flight center saturn apollo program rocket liftoff saturn moon rocket high resolution lunar vehicle lunar module pilot james command module pilot surface vehicle mission commander david astronauts scott saturn apollo program three astronauts astronauts mission rocket engines rocket technology nasa