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Asaph Hall III (1829 - 1907)
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Asaph Hall III (October 15, 1829 - November 22, 1907) was an American astronomer who is most famous for having discovered the moons of Mars (namely Deimos and Phobos) in 1877. Read more
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Brook Taylor FRS (1685 - 1731)
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Brook Taylor FRS (18 August 1685 - 30 November 1731) was an English mathematician who is best known for Taylor's theorem and the Taylor series. Read more
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Umberto Guidoni
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Umberto Guidoni (born in Rome 18 August 1954) is an Italian politician and a former ESA astronaut. He is a veteran of two NASA space shuttle missions. Read more
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Lydia Litvyak (1921 - 1943)
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Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak (Moscow, August 18, 1921 - Krasnyi Luch August 1, 1943), also known as Lydia Litviak or Lilya Litviak, was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II. With 12 solo victories (but some authors say 11 or even 13) and either two, or four, shared gained in 66 comba...
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Dr. Taher Elgamal
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Astrophysicist Mazlan Othman
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Astrophysicist Mazlan Othman wanted to go into space The astrophysicist Professor Mazlan Othman headed the Malaysian National Space Agency, where her work led to the launch of the first Malaysian astronaut. She has devoted her life to space projects both nationally and internationally. [url=h...
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Gene Kranz
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Eugene Francis "Gene" Kranz (born August 17, 1933) is a retired NASA Flight Director and manager. Kranz served as a Flight Director, the successor to NASA founding Flight Director Chris Kraft, during the Gemini and Apollo programs, and is best known for his role in directing the success...
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Stefan Bastyr (1890 - 1920)
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Stefan Bastyr (August 17, 1890 - August 6, 1920) was a Polish aviator and military pilot, one of the pioneers of the Polish aviation. He is credited with the first military flight in the history of the Polish Air Force on November 5, 1918, almost a week before Poland officially regained her independen...
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Ted Hughes (1930 - 1998)
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Edward James "Ted" Hughes, OM (17 August 1930 - 28 October 1998) was an English poet and children's writer. Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation. Hughes was British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death. Read more
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Francis Gary Powers (1929 - 1977)
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Francis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 - August 1, 1977) was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident. Read more
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Vladimir Nesterov
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Khrunichev Director General Resigns Following Launch Failure Vladimir Nesterov, director general of the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, has resigned following the failure of a Proton rocket to place two communications satellites in their proper orbits last week, Russ...
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Gabriel Lippmann (1845 - 1921)
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Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann (16 August 1845 - 13 July 1921) was a Franco-Luxembourgish physicist and inventor, and Nobel laureate in physics for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference. Read more[video=http://www.youtube.com/watc...
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Stuart Allen Roosa (1933 - 1994)
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Stuart Allen Roosa (August 16, 1933 - December 12, 1994) was a NASA astronaut, who was the command module pilot for the Apollo 14 mission. The mission lasted from January 31 to February 9, 1971 and was the third mission to land astronauts (Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell) on the Moon. Read more
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Joseph William Kittinger II
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Joseph William Kittinger II (born July 27, 1928) is a former Command Pilot and career military officer in the United States Air Force. He is most famous for his participation in Project Manhigh and Project Excelsior, holding the records for having the highest, fastest and longest skydive and as bei...
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Aleksey Krylov (1863 - 1945)
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Aleksey Nikolaevich Krylov (August 15 [O.S. 3 August] 1863 - October 26, 1945) was a Russian naval engineer, applied mathematician and memoirist. Read more
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