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She returned to space for her second long duration mission on 15 November 2020, onboard SpaceX Crew-1, the first operational flight of SpaceX 's Crew Dragon spacecraft. Soyuz TMA-19 (Jun. 15, 2010) SpaceX Crew-1 (Nov. 15, 2020) 56. Liu Yang. Oct. 6, 1978. China. First Chinese woman in space.
STS-7. STS-41-G. Mission insignia. Retirement. August 15, 1987. Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana ...
Dead Man's Walk. Comanche Moon (1997) is a Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry. It is the fourth and final book he published in the Lonesome Dove series. In terms of chronology, it is the second installment of the narrative. A Comanche Moon in Texas history was a full moon in autumn which permitted Comanche warriors to ride by night ...
Admiral Efram Asimov is the commander of the Searcher and a descendant of the famous science-fiction author Isaac Asimov. Hawk (Thom Christopher) is an alien character who represents the last of the nearly extinct bird people. [8] Dr. Goodfellow (Wilfrid Hyde-White) is an elderly scientist with insatiable curiosity.
Get Smart is an American comedy television series parodying the secret agent genre that had become widely popular in the first half of the 1960s with the release of the James Bond films. It was created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, and had its television premiere on NBC on September 18, 1965. It stars Don Adams (who was also a director on the ...
Canada has sent two women to space. Roberta Bondar was the first Canadian woman to fly in space, on the Space Shuttle Discovery in January 1992. [ 91] The second Canadian woman astronaut is Julie Payette from Montreal. Payette was part of the crew of STS-96, on the Space Shuttle Discovery from May 27 to June 6, 1999.
A supporting character in the Shrek film series, as well as the protagonist of the 2011 spin-off prequel Puss in Boots (2011). He is voiced in the English, Spanish, and Italian versions by Antonio Banderas. He is based loosely on Charles Perrault's fairy tale character of the same name, and he is the main "other fairy tale character" in the ...
Helen Sharman. Helen Patricia Sharman, CMG, OBE, HonFRSC (born 30 May 1963) is a British chemist and astronaut who became the first British person, first Western European woman and first privately funded woman in space, as well as the first woman to visit the Mir space station, in May 1991.