| Project Mercury | |
Do you know about this project by NASA?
They are planning to write new chapter in space programme. Project Mercury: NASA's First Manned Space Programme | |
| | Happy Birthday to me................:-) | | Today is my birthday and I received 2 ecards from "My Daily Times" which shows what was historical evens happened in the year I was born.For instance, John F Kennedy was the president of the US.
- January 31st - Ham a 37 pound male chimpanzee was sent into space in a test of the Project Mercury capsule designed to carry US astronauts into space.
- March 15th - South Africa withdraws from the British Commonwealth.
- March 1st - The president establishes the Peace Corps.
- April 17th - Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba begins
- May 28th - Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is published, which was later thought of as the founding of the human right organization Amnesty International.
- August 13 - Construction of the Berlin Wall begins.So what historical events happened in the year you were born? | |
| | Do you believe in myths? add some more myths plzz. | | One legend claims stealing someone's shadow (by measuring it against a wall and driving a nail through its head) can turn the victim into a vampire.Avoid people who talk to themselves. According to Ukrainian legend, that could indicate a dual soul and the second one doesn't die! Also watch out for the seventh son of a seventh son, a person born with a red caul (amniotic membrane covering the head), or a child born with teeth. A vampire can result if a cat or dog walks over a fresh grave, a bat flies over the corpse, or the person has died suddenly as a result of suicide or murder. Unfinished business can also cause a body to rise, as can inadequate burial rites, including a grave that is too shallow.Most vampires are described in folklore as flushed and ruddy, with swollen bodies and bloated faces. Often, they can be identified because they're sitting up in the grave.According to folklore, there are a number of ways to protect yourself from vampires, including the ever-popular wearing of garlic or a religious symbol. You can slow a vampire down by giving him something to do, like pick up poppy seeds or unravel a net. (They're quite compulsive.) Cross water and he can't... | |
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| Apollo Soyuz Test Project | | The Apollo program, which started during a time of intense competition between the United States and the USSR, ended in a demonstration of dŽtente in space: a joint orbital flight of the Apollo and Soyuz spaceships, known as the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). Technically, the joint mission in low Earth orbit demonstrated intership crew transfer and space rescue. The project had been initiated by the United States in 1969 but did not gain Soviet approval until the Nixon-Kosygin summit conference in Moscow in 1972.The docking of two space vessels of different design and manufacture required the construction of a universal docking module. This hardware was fabricated by Rockwell International, and compatible systems were installed in both Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft. For the first time Americans were allowed to tour a portion of the Soviet Baikonur Cosmodrome, and Western news correspondents were permitted inside the flight-control center at Kaliningrad.The total cost to NASA of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) was $250 million. The Apollo crew consisted of Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas P. Stafford; Vance D. Brand, a civilian; and D. K. Slayton, a civilian and one of the... | |
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