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This is just a sandbox for my alternate history, none of this is to be taken seriously

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Agency overview
AbbreviationNASA
FormedJuly 29, 1958; 66 years ago (1958-07-29)
Preceding agency
TypeSpace agency
Aeronautics research agency
JurisdictionUnited States Federal Government
HeadquartersWashington, D.C.
38°52′59″N 77°0′59″W / 38.88306°N 77.01639°W / 38.88306; -77.01639
Victor Glover
Deputy AdministratorGarrett Reisman
Primary spaceports
Employees17,960 (2022)[2]
Annual budgetIncrease US$28.384 billion (2023)[3]

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Space Shuttle Odyssey disaster
Space Shuttle Columbia landing during it's STS-62 mission.
The Space Shuttle Odyssey launching on STS-41D, its second flight to Skylab.
DateFebruary 2, 1987; 37 years ago (1987-02-02)
Time9:41 am EST (14:41 UTC)
LocationOver Atlantic Ocean
CauseRCC tile damage after failed RTLS abort
OutcomeLoss of Odyssey, shuttle fleet grounded for 23 months, all west coast shuttle mission replaced with Shuttle-C launches
Deaths
InquiriesRide Comission

Skylab
Skylab as photographed by (Skylab 4).
Skylab program insignia
Station statistics
Call signSkylab
Crew3 per mission (initially)
5-7 per mission (Space shuttle) (41 total)
LaunchMay 14, 1973
17:30:00 UTC (51 years ago)
Carrier rocketModified Saturn V
Launch padKennedy Space Center, LC-39A
ReentryAugust 12, 1987
16:37:00 UTC
Mission statusDeorbited
Mass168,750 pounds (76,540 kg)[4]
w/o Apollo CSM or Space Shuttle Orbiter
Length103.4 feet (31.5 m)
w/o Apollo CSM or Space Shuttle Orbiter
Width55.8 feet (17.0 m)
w/ one solar panel
Height43.3 feet (13.2 m)
w/ power tower
Diameter21.67 feet (6.61 m)
/OWS
Pressurised volume13,416 cubic feet (379.9 m3)
Atmospheric pressure5.0 pounds per square inch (34 kPa) Oxygen 74%, nitrogen 26%[5]
Perigee altitude269.7 miles (434.0 km)
Apogee altitude274.6 miles (441.9 km)
Orbital inclination50.0°
Orbital period93.4 minutes
Orbits per day15.4
Days in orbit5231 days (6.6 years)
Days occupied1015 days
No. of orbits76,981
Distance travelled~890,000,000 mi (1,400,000,000 km)
Statistics as of Re-entry August 12, 1987
Configuration
Skylab configuration as planned


2000 United States presidential election

← 1996 November 7, 2000 2004 →

538 members of the Electoral College[a]
270 electoral votes needed to win
Turnout54.2%[6] Increase 2.5 pp
 
Nominee Al Gore George W. Bush
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Tennessee Texas
Running mate Joe Lieberman Dick Cheney
Electoral vote 291[b] 246
States carried 21 + DC 29
Popular vote 50,999,897 50,456,002
Percentage 48.4% 47.9%

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Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Bush/Cheney and blue denotes those won by Gore/Lieberman. One of D.C.'s three electors abstained from casting a vote for president or vice president. Numbers indicate electoral votes cast by each state and the District of Columbia.

President before election

Bill Clinton
Democratic

Elected President

Al Gore
Democratic

  1. ^ US Centennial of Flight Commission, NACA. Archived February 20, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. centennialofflight.net. Retrieved on November 3, 2011.
  2. ^ "Workforce Profile". NASA. Archived from the original on August 11, 2022. Retrieved August 11, 2022.
  3. ^ "NASA's FY 2023 Budget". The Planetary Society. Archived from the original on March 24, 2023. Retrieved July 27, 2023.
  4. ^ "EP-107 Skylab: A Guidebook". NASA. Retrieved February 28, 2017. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ^ Belew (1977), p. 18
  6. ^ "National General Election VEP Turnout Rates, 1789-Present". United States Election Project. CQ Press. Archived from the original on July 25, 2014. Retrieved February 21, 2023.


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