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• Spacex And Private Spaceflight

What was the name of SpaceX’s first crewed orbital mission, launched for NASA in May 2020?

Answer

Demo-2

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• Spacex And Private Spaceflight

In what year was SpaceX founded by Elon Musk and its original founding team?

Answer

2002

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• Spacex And Private Spaceflight

What was the name of the SpaceX spacecraft that first docked with the International Space Station in 2012?

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Dragon

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• Spacex And Private Spaceflight

Which SpaceX rocket became the first orbital-class rocket capable of reflight after landing in December 2015?

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Falcon 9

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• Famous Female Scientists

Which astronomer discovered the period–luminosity relation for Cepheid variable stars in 1908?

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Henrietta Swan Leavitt

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Which physicist shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model?

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Maria Goeppert Mayer

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Which physicist calculated the trajectory for John Glenn’s 1962 orbital flight?

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Katherine Johnson

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Which astronomer’s galaxy-rotation studies provided major evidence for dark matter?

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Vera Rubin

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Which chemist won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the structures of vitamin B12 and penicillin?

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Dorothy Hodgkin

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Which primatologist began her groundbreaking chimpanzee research at Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park in 1960?

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Jane Goodall

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Which biochemist discovered artemisinin, a key antimalarial drug, from traditional Chinese medicine?

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Tu Youyou

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Which physicist confirmed parity violation in the 1956 Wu experiment?

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Chien-Shiung Wu

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