Tuesday, June 12, 2007

space shuttle STS-63, STS-76

I was 35.9 years old when STS-63 launched.

From 3/3/1959 to 2/3/1995 is: 35 years, 337 days
337 / 365 = 0.9
From 3/3/1959 to 2/3/1995 is: 35.9 years

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-63

STS-63 was the second mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, which carried out the first rendezvous of the American Space Shuttle with Russia's space station Mir. Known as the 'Near-Mir' mission, the flight used Space Shuttle Discovery, which lifted off from launch pad 39B on February 3, 1995 from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida. A night launch and the 20th mission for Discovery, it marked the first time a Space Shuttle mission had a female pilot, Eileen Collins, and carried out the successful deployment and retrieval of the Spartan-204 platform, along with the scheduled rendezvous and flyaround of Mir, in preparation for STS-71, the first mission to dock with Mir.



I recognize the date 6/7/1976 as when I made my first visit to the Saturn moon Phoebe.

From 6/7/1976 to 3/22/1996 is: 7228 days
From 3/3/1959 to 12/16/1978 is: 7228 days

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-76

STS-76 was a space shuttle mission by NASA using the Space Shuttle Atlantis. It was the 76th shuttle mission, and the 16th flight for Atlantis. It was the 3rd mission to feature a docking with the Mir space station.

Launch: March 22, 1996, 3:13:04 a.m. EST
Landing: March 31, 1996, 8:28:57 a.m. EST
Duration: 9 days, 5 hours, 16 minutes, 48 seconds




http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078346/

Superman (1978)

Release Date: 15 December 1978 (USA)



From 7/16/1963 to 6/28/2006 is: 15688 days
15688 * 0.359 = 5631
From 7/16/1963 to 12/15/1978 is: 5631 days

Superman Returns is a 2006 superhero film based on the fictional DC Comics character Superman. Release date(s) June 28, 2006

Release date(s) December 15, 1978 Superman (also known as Superman: The Movie, as it was called in pre-release advertising), was a popular and critically acclaimed superhero film. It was the first major motion picture to feature the popular DC Comics character of Superman