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November 1960
The following events occurred in November 1960: November 1, 1960 (Tuesday) *The Goddard Space Flight Center computing and communications center became operational. Goddard's mission was to serve as a communications center, and two IBM 7090 computers, operating in parallel, would compute the smoothed exact position at all times during Project Mercury flights, predict future spacecraft positions, and shift the coordinates to provide acquisition information for all observation sites. In addition, Goddard calculated certain quantities needed for display purposes at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The importance of the Goddard computers would be graphically demonstrated when they predicted the amount of overshoot within seconds after landing during the Mercury-Atlas 7 ( Scott Carpenter) mission on May 24, 1962. This action significantly reduced the time to find and recover the astronaut. *U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower said that the United States would "take whatever steps a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of Benelux
The flag of Benelux is an unofficial flag commissioned by the Committee for Belgian–Dutch–Luxembourgish Cooperation in 1951. It is an amalgam of the flags of the member states: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. The red stripe is from the flag of Luxembourg, the blue stripe is from the flag of the Netherlands, and the black stripe and yellow lion rampant are taken from the coat of arms of Belgium. The lion also historically represents the Low Countries area as a whole, since each constituent nation possesses a coat of arms featuring a lion rampant facing left (''Leo Belgicus''), which during the 17th century already symbolised the Low Lands as a whole or in part. References External links * {{Flags of International Organization Benelux Benelux The Benelux Union ( nl, Benelux Unie; french: Union Benelux; lb, Benelux-Unioun), also known as simply Benelux, is a politico-economic union and formal international intergovernmental cooperation of three neighboring stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
