The town of Napoleon was first settled here in 1767 as a 640-acre British land grant to John Claudius Favre. In 1861 it was sold to Simon Favre, who built his home and businesses here. Residents...
San Augustine, TexasFebruary 1, 2003Space Shuttle ColumbiaForever in Our Hearts Ilan Ramon - Payload Specialist 1Laurel Clark - Mission Specialist 4Michael P. Anderson - Payload Commander...
The town of Santa Rosa, once located here, encompassed stores, a church, a post office, the one- room Aaron Academy, and Turtle Skin Cemetery. Its residents were relocated in 1961 to make way for...
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Plaque outside the visitors centre at the Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex (part of NASA's Deep Space Network), commemorating the opening of the 70 metre DSS 43 antenna. DEEP SPACE...
To all of the individuals whose years of dedicated service turned the dream of the Space Shuttle program into a reality Dedicated June 2013 Submitted by Gilda Spitz
THE KEWEENAW ROCKET RANGE THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ESTABLISHED A ROCKET RANGE ON THIS SITE WHICH WAS USED FROM 1964-1971. MICHIGAN'S FIRST ROCKET TO ENTER SPACE WAS LAUNCHED FROM THIS SITE ON...
GRISSOM HALL NAMED IN HONOR OF VIRGIL I. GRISSOM, LIEUTENANT COLONEL, U.S.A.F., ENGINEER, PILOT, AND TRAILBLAZER OF SPACE. HIS DEATH ON JANUARY 27, 1967, WAS THE TRAGICALLY HIGH PRICE HIS NATION...
More information here: Soyuz Test Project By NASA - NASA Image of the Day, Public Domain. Submitted by @KurtKohlstedt
A plaque on the body of the Kepler Spacecraft listing many of the people involved in the project