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(1961) Mercury Redstone booster qualification flight (MR-BD)

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(1992) STS-45 Atlantis Launch - Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS-1)


Mission highlights
Launch: March 24, 1992, 8:13 a.m. EST.

Carried first Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS-1) on Spacelab pallets mounted in orbiter's cargo bay. The non-deployable payload, equipped with l2 instruments from the United States, France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Japan, conducted studies in atmospheric chemistry, solar radiation, space plasma physics and ultraviolet astronomy.
Landing: April 2, 1992, 6:23 a.m. EST, Runway 33, Kennedy Space Center.

Link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-45

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Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade
24 March 1893 - 25 June 1960

Born in Germany and educated at Göttingen, Walter Baade worked at the Hamburg Observatory from 1919 to 1931 and at Mt. Wilson from 1931 to 1958. He and Fritz Zwicky proposed in 1934 that supernovae could produce cosmic rays and neutron stars, and Baade made extensive studies of the Crab Nebula and its central star.

http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/BruceMedalists/Baade/index.html

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