It was the countdown for Apollo Eleven the space flight that would carry men to the first landing on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

There were new designs for the plane's rocket engine, landing equipment and the small rockets needed to move it in space.

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At the time President Kennedy first spoke about landing humans on the moon, the Soviet space program seemed far ahead.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

At his first news briefing in Houston, Texas, where the astronaut is undergoing rehabilitation, Cmdr Hadfield described the physical sensations of being in space and landing on Earth.

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To estimate the latter, one needs to know what fraction of the impactor was distributed globally, as opposed to being ejected to space or landing close to the crater.

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The airport is used by the American space agency Nasa as a contingency landing place for its space shuttles.

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