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NASA TV's This Week @NASA, F
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* President Obama spoke with
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02/19/10
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* President Obama spoke with the crews of space shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station from the Roosevelt Room of the White House. * New findings by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in the Andromeda galaxy have provided a major advance in understanding a type of supernova believed critical to studying dark energy. * The telescope aboard NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, was successfully activated during a January 15 test flight of almost six hours. * A new NASA Web site can help our future explorers and leaders better understand the how's and why's of climate change and what they can do to make our planet more habitable. * Scott Carpenter: ''Godspeed John Glenn'' Forty-eight years ago, Mercury astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth when an Atlas rocket successfully carried his Friendship 7 capsule into space. |
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02/19/10 |
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Astronaut Scott Carpenter
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Astronaut Scott Carpenter |
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1959-04-27 |
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Astronaut Scott Carpenter, one of the original seven astronauts for Mercury Project selected by NASA on April 27, 1959. Boosted by the Mercury-Atlas vehicle, the MA-7 mission made the second marned orbital flight by the United States, and carried Astronaut Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 spacecraft to orbit the Earth three times. |
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Earth and sky views taken wi
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Earth and sky views taken with hand-held camera during Mercury-Atlas 7 |
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Earth and sky views taken with hand-held camera by Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter during Mercury-Atlas 7 mission. |
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1962-07-17 |
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Earth and sky views taken wi
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Earth and sky views taken with hand-held camera during Mercury-Atlas 7 |
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Earth and sky views taken with hand-held camera by Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter during Mercury-Atlas 7 mission. |
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1962-07-17 |
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Earth and sky views taken wi
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Earth and sky views taken with hand-held camera during Mercury-Atlas 7 |
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Earth and sky views taken with hand-held camera by Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter during Mercury-Atlas 7 mission. |
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1962-07-17 |
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Astronaut Scott Carpenter on
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Astronaut Scott Carpenter on recovery ship U.S.S. Intrepid after MA-7 flight |
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Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter, prime pilot for the Mercury-Atlas 7 (MA-7) mission, arrives aboard the prime recovery ship, U.S.S. Intrepid, during recovery operations following his earth-orbital mission. |
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1962-07-10 |
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Earth and sky views taken wi
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| Title |
Earth and sky views taken with hand-held camera during Mercury-Atlas 7 |
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Earth and sky views taken with hand-held camera by Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter during Mercury-Atlas 7 mission. |
| Date Taken |
1962-07-17 |
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Earth and sky views taken wi
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Earth and sky views taken with hand-held camera during Mercury-Atlas 7 |
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Earth and sky views taken with hand-held camera by Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter during Mercury-Atlas 7 mission. |
| Date Taken |
1962-07-17 |
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Astronaut Scott Carpenter on
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Astronaut Scott Carpenter on recovery ship U.S.S. Intrepid after MA-7 flight |
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Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter, prime pilot for the Mercury-Atlas 7 (MA-7) mission, arrives aboard the prime recovery ship, U.S.S. Intrepid, during recovery operations following his earth-orbital mission. |
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1962-07-10 |
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