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Where is the US space control center?
It depends on the mission. All launch vehicles are controlled by their individual launch facilities until the mission clock starts, which is at the end of the "countdown". The countdown is a negative...
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What is a manned mission in space?
Manned missions are space missions where there are people aboard, such as the Space Shuttle or the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. Missions to other planets have so far been "unmanned" robot probes...
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What are manned space missions?
Tasks that are performed by sending people into space, as opposed to tasks performed by sending autonomous or robotic vehicles to do the job.
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What is the US space control center?
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the unit of the federal government charged with operating the nation's space exploration and aeronautics programs. The administrator of NASA,...
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When was the first manned space mission?
On April 12, 1961