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Spacelab 1 module in the payload bay of the space shuttle orbiter Columbia on the flight STS-9, which was launched on Nov. 28, 1983. Spacelab 1 STS-65; Mukai, Chiaki
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Spacelab 1 module in the payload bay of the space shuttle orbiter Columbia on the flight STS-9, which was launched on Nov. 28, 1983.
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Roberta Bondar
Roberta Bondar
Canadian neurologist, researcher, and astronaut
Malerba, Franco
Franco Malerba
Italian biophysicist and astronaut
Story Musgrave, 1971.
Story Musgrave
American astronaut and physician
Ulf Merbold.
Ulf Merbold
German physicist and astronaut
Mohri Mamoru, right before the takeoff of space shuttle mission STS-99, Feb. 11, 2000.
Mohri Mamoru
Japanese astronaut

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Nicolaus Copernicus. Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) Polish astronomer. In 1543 he published, forward proof of a Heliocentric (sun centered) universe. Coloured stipple engraving published London 1802. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri vi.
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