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Aqua launch timeline SPACEFLIGHT NOW Updated: May 1, 2002
Data source: Boeing. |
Flight Data File Vehicle: Delta 2 (7920-10L) Payload: Aqua Launch date: May 4, 2002 Launch time: 0954:58-1004:58 GMT (5:54:58-6:04:58 a.m. EDT) Launch site: SLC-2W, Vandenberg AFB, Calif. Satellite broadcast: GE-2, Transponder 9, C-band Pre-launch briefing Orbit trace - Maps showing the ground track for the launch. Aqua - General overview of this NASA spacecraft. Science goals - Aqua's science objectives and mission goals. Satellite instruments - Description of each of the six instruments on Aqua. Delta 2 rocket - Overview of the Delta 2 7920-model rocket used in this launch. SLC-2W - The launch pad where Delta rockets fly from Vandenberg. Delta directory - See our coverage of preview Delta rocket flights. Soviet Space For the first time ever available in the West. Rocket & Space Corporation Energia: a complete pictorial history of the Soviet/Russian Space Program from 1946 to the present day all in full color. Available from our store.U.S. - U.K. - E.U. - Worldwide Viking patch This embroidered mission patch celebrates NASA's Viking Project which reached the Red Planet in 1976.U.S. - U.K. - E.U. - Worldwide Apollo 7 DVD For 11 days the crew of Apollo 7 fought colds while they put the Apollo spacecraft through a workout, establishing confidence in the machine what would lead directly to the bold decision to send Apollo 8 to the moon just 2 months later.U.S. - U.K. - E.U. - Worldwide Gemini 12 Gemini 12: The NASA Mission Reports covers the voyage of James Lovell and Buzz Aldrin that capped the Gemini program's efforts to prove the technologies and techniques that would be needed for the Apollo Moon landings. Includes CD-ROM.U.S. - U.K. - E.U. - Worldwide Creating Space Creating Space groups together the history, the vehicles and the models into logical and meaningful categories. This book is equally valuable to space enthusiasts, modellers, and space historians.Apollo 11 special patch Special collectors' patch marking the 35th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 moon landing is now available.U.S. - U.K. - E.U. - Worldwide Inside Apollo mission control
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