The Pioneer programs were two series of United States lunar and planetary space probes exploration. The first program, which ran from 1958 to 1960, unsuccessfully attempted to send spacecraft to orbit the Moon, successfully sent one spacecraft to fly by the Moon, and successfully sent one spacecraft to investigate interplanetary space between the orbits of Earth and Venus.

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The Victoria class are British built diesel-electric fleet submarines designed in the late 1970s to supplement the Royal Navy's nuclear submarine force. They were decommissioned at the end of the Cold War. In 1998, Canada purchased the submarines to replace the aging Oberon-class submarines.Refit for Canadian service included the removal of Sub-Harpoon missile firing and …

Dreiflüssestadion (Three Rivers Stadium) is a multi-use stadium in Passau, Germany.It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of 1. FC Passau.The stadium has a capacity of 20,000 people and was built in 1972. For the 1972 Summer Olympics in nearby Munich, it hosted six football matches.. References. 1972 Summer Olympics official report.

The Silver Wraith was the first post-war Rolls-Royce.It was made from 1946 to 1958 as only a chassis at Rolls-Royce's former Merlin engine plant, their Crewe factory, alongside the shorter Bentley Mark VI.The Bentley too was available as a chassis for coachbuilders but also for the first time could be bought with a Rolls-Royce built standard steel body.

History. Beginning in 1933, the National Socialists began to use the stadium as a marching area for the Hitler Youth.The fourth Deutsche Kampfspiele, one of the biggest events organized by the Nazi Sports Body, took place in this stadium from 23–29 July 1934.. Following 1963, the stadium was reconditioned multiple times, so that it could meet the requirements for football in the …

The FC/ASW ("Future Cruise/Anti-Ship Weapon") or FMAN/FMC ("Futur missile anti-navire/Futur missile de croisière" in French) is a programme launched by France and the United Kingdom to develop a missile system to replace their jointly-developed Storm Shadow/SCALP as well as their respective Exocet and Harpoon anti-ship missiles. Equally funded by both …

Japan (Japanese: 日本, Nippon or Nihon, and formally 日本国, Nihonkoku) is an island country in East Asia.It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans an …

The ASM-3 is a supersonic anti-ship missile being developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to replace the ASM-1 and ASM-2 missiles. The major launch platform is the Mitsubishi F-2.Planned Initial Operational Capability was 2016. The missile will be used by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force.It can attack not only ships, but also ground targets. Since the original model of ASM3 …