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... had deprived Iranian poets of a source of inspiration thousands of years old, Ebrahim Sahba, speaking for the Iranian Poets Assn., told AP: “Now, with the ugly and coarse surface, Iranian poets must ...

... .9 tonnes or 907 kilograms) of extra fuel to the space station, so that Progress M1-6 could push the International Space Station ISS into a higher orbit. Russian Space Agency ... use 5 percent less fuel than previous models. (Spacewarn Bulletin, no. 571; Mark Wade, “Progress M1,” Encyclopaedia Astronautica, http://www.astronautix.com/craft/proessm1.htm (accessed 29 July 2008). April 2001 ...

... . So, it is thus no surprise that the earliest calendars were lunar. Very early, in 5000 BCE, the Egyptians developed a calendar with a year that was regulated by the moon and ... established civilizations along the banks of major rivers. Sometime between 3200 and 2800 BCE the calendar was developed in Mesopotamia, and then copied by the Greeks. Their year was divided into ... various schemes were invented to compensate for this discrepancy. Around 2000 BCE the Babylonian's calendar added an extra month every four years, while others attempted to correct the discrepancy by ...

... at 6:24 p.m. (UT). A Soyuz-FG booster lifted the Progress M1-7 cargo carrier. Progress M1-7 was to deliver 2.5 tonnes (2.8 tons or 5,511 ...

... , 29 seconds after liftoff from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia. The rocket was carrying a Foton-M1 spacecraft with 44 microgravity experiments that ESA, Japan, Russia, and the United States had intended for the International Space Station ISS . ESA stated that it planned to rebuild the Foton-M1 spacecraft for a later launch. (ESA, “Foton,” http://www.spaceflight.esa.int/users/index.cfm ...

Progress M1-10 launched successfully from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying 2,400 kilograms (5,300 pounds) ... ), the company leading Russia's participation in the International Space Station ISS , remarked that Progress M1-10 carried a supply of extra water because NASA had canceled all Shuttle flights in ...

... for scientists and engineers was not adversely affecting other areas: "At the beginning of this calendar year, approximately 74,000 scientists and engineers were employed in the NASA program-about 12 ... that the number employed on NASA work increased by about 30,000 during the last calendar year, rather than 20,000 as had been anticipated. As a consequence, our requirement for ...

... was more than 600. He continued: “We anticipate publication of approximately 700 Tech Briefs during calendar year 1966. . . . we estimate the average Tech Brief is seen by more than 10,000 ... the fact that approximately 1,500 persons visited our Field Center Technology Utilization Offices during calendar 1965. . . . Two additional Regional Dissemination Programs have been started in the last year, one at ...

... Trophy Race- died at age 72. More than 375 "Hubbells" were painted for TRW Aviation Calendar series and quarter of million lithographic reproductions had been published. Hubbell's pictures had hung in White House, museums, palaces, libraries, and homes of aviation buffs. ''(TRw Calendar, 1972)'' September 1971 September October 1971 October Oct 1 1971 1 Oct 2 1971 2 ...

... announced the updated schedule of Space Shuttle /Space Station missions through calendar year 1997 and expendable launch vehicle missions through calendar year 2001. Included were 10 Space Shuttle flights to Russian Space ...

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