The fourth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, and the second to orbit the Moon. Apollo 10 launched from Cape Kennedy Advertisements
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John F. Kennedy Space Center – The Launch Operations Center of NASA in Titusville
One of ten National Aeronautics and Space Administration field centers. Located on the east coast of Florida, John F. Kennedy Space Center is adjacent to Cape
Belka and Strelka – The Soviet Space Dogs resting at the Museum of Cosmonautics
Korabl-Sputnik 2 was a Soviet artificial satellite, and the third test flight of the Vostok spacecraft. It was the first spaceflight to send animals into orbit.
Zweibrücken Observatory – The giant R2-D2 Observatory in Zweibrücken
The 4.60 metres diameter dome was erected in 2002. The dome houses a optical telescope, with
The original Lunar Rock displayed in Speyer
The moon rock was chipped off from a basalt boulder in the Hadley-Apennine landing site on 01 August 1971 by the Apollo 15 astronauts, David R. Scott
Columbia – The flight deck windows at the Kennedy Space Center
The Space Shuttle disaster was a fatal incident in the United States space program that occurred on February 1, 2003, when the Space Shuttle Columbia
Galileo – The first probe in Jupiter orbit
American spacecraft that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as several other Solar System bodies. Named after the Italian astronomer Galileo
COS-B – The first European Space mission in low Earth orbit
The mission consisted of a satellite containing gamma-ray detectors, which was launched by NASA on behalf of the ESRO on August 9, 1975. The mission was completed on April 25, 1982, after the satellite had been operational for more than 6.5 years, four years longer than planned and had increased the amount of data on gamma rays […]
