Astronauts had a tradition of giving astronauts the opportunity to name spacecraft beginning with Gemini program spaceships and ending with Skylab station missions. Now, NASA’s craft are named by a committee, although their names must still evoke an air of poetic profundity. A spacecraft is a type of spacecraft. Spacecraft are vehicles or vessels specifically …
Discover Urdu colors through this lesson and expand your vocabulary while communicating more effectively with people from across the globe. The sky appears blue due to light being scattered by gases and particles in the atmosphere; blue light scatters more readily than other colors, giving it its distinct hue. Scattering of light The sky’s characteristic …
Names for interplanetary vehicles can be as unique as their designs. Sometimes, such as with Sojourner Truth rover honoring an American civil rights pioneer, names are chosen through competition. NASA has long had a tradition for selecting names for spacecraft since the early 1960s. Spaceship names often draw inspiration from ancient deities or ships of …
