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March 11, 1986 :
Japan Sakigake First Non US USSR Deep Space Probe Made Halley's Comet Flyby At A Distance Of 6.99 Million Km:
Japan Sakigake carried out a flyby of Halley's Comet on March 11, 1986 at a distance of 6.99 million km. Sakigake (translating to "pioneer") was Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft, and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the USA or the Soviet Union. It ... More...

March 11, 1986
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March 11, 2004 :
Unpowered Glide Test And 12th Flight Of SpaceShipOne Pilot Peter Siebold With New Thermal Protection System:
SpaceShipOne conducts is'ts twelfth flight. The flight was an unpowered glide test piloted by Peter Siebold with a newly installed thermal protection system. The 12th flight of SpaceShipOne included pilot proficiency, reaction control system functionality check and stability and control and perfor ... More...

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March 11, 2008 :
US Shuttle Endeavour STS-123 Launched With Japanese Space Laboratory And Canadian-built Robotic System To ISS:
US space Shuttle Endeavour STS-123 blasted off from a seaside Florida launch pad to deliver part of a long-awaited Japanese space laboratory and a Canadian-built robotic system to the International Space Station. STS-123 was the 1J/A ISS assembly mission. It was the twenty-fifth shuttle mission to v ... More...

March 11, 2008
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March 16, 1926 :
USA Robert Goddard Launches First Liquid Fuel Rocket To A Height Of 41 Feet During A 2.5 Second Flight
USA's Robert Goddard constructed and successfully tested the first rocket using liquid fuel at Auburn, Massachusetts which goes up 41 feet during a 2.5 second flight was as significant to history as that of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk. Goddard's rockets made little impression on government of ... More...

March 16, 2008
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Snapshot of the International Space Station

On March 13, 2008, the International Space Station passed across the field-of-view of Germany's remote sensing satellite, TerraSAR-X, at a distance of 195 kilometers, or 122 miles, and at a relative speed of 34,540 kilometers per hour, or more than 22,000 mph. In contrast to optical cameras, radar does not 'see' surfaces. Instead, it is much more aware of the edges and corners which bounce back the microwave signal it transmits. Smooth surfaces such as those on the station's solar generators or the radiator panels used to dissipate excess heat, unless directly facing the radar antenna, tend to deflect rather than reflect the radar beam, causing these features to appear on the radar image as dark areas. The radar image of the station therefore looks like a dense collection of bright spots from which the outlines of the space station can be clearly identified. The central element on the station, to which all the modules are docked, has a grid structure that presents a multiplicity of reflecting surfaces to the radar beam, making it readily identifiable. This image has a resolution of about one meter (about 39 inches). In other words, objects can be depicted as discrete units--that is, shown separately--provided that they are at least one meter apart. If they are closer together than that, they tend to merge into a single block on a radar image. Since this image was taken, the station has expanded and is more than 90 percent complete, including a full complement of solar arrays. Image Credit: DLR
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Listen To Space Patrol Episode 06 The City of the Sun

Tagged Under : 1952, Atomo Light, Ed Kemmer, Lyn Osborn, Mercury, OTR, sci-fi, Space Patrol, Space-A-Phone, Spaceship, View Scope

This show is part 8 of 21 in the series Space Patrol

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A shipwrecked scientist on the hot side of Mercury sets off a massive search and rescue operation. In addition to the search for Professor Mallison, Commander Corey is busy tracking down sabotage attacks against the power plant when they discover a break in the vital water conduit supporting the local colony of The City of the Sun Solaria.

Following tracks from the break in the water conduit Commander Corey and Happy discover a giant 6 wheel atomic digging machine, driven by Burick and Grouse, explaining what had been destroyed to the Solaria water supply conduit. Corey and Happy land to investigate and are chased down and run over by the atomic digging machine.

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