User:Rfl

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Penrose Tribar

Rafał Pocztarski

Administrator of the English Wikipedia since 2004 (original nomination)

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The Reduced Gravity Walking Simulator was a facility developed by NASA in the early 1960s to study human movement under simulated lunar gravity conditions. It was located at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia and was designed to prepare astronauts for the Moon landings during the Apollo program. The simulator was tilted at a 9.5-degree angle from the vertical and test subjects were suspended on their side by cables at the same angle. This set-up allowed the trainees to walk along the surface while experiencing only one-sixth of Earth's gravity. It was also used to study the physiological effects on the astronaut's body during movement. In total, 24 astronauts used the simulator to train for lunar missions, including all three astronauts of the Apollo 1 mission. This photograph, taken in 1963, shows a test subject being suited up by two technicians on the Reduced Gravity Walking Simulator.Photograph credit: NASA

Selected anniversaries

December 27

Charles Darwin

• 537 – The reconstructed Hagia Sophia in Constantinople was inaugurated; built as a church, it later became a mosque and a museum.
• 1831 – HMS Beagle departed Plymouth, England, on a voyage to South America that established Charles Darwin (pictured) as a naturalist.
• 1939 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck central Turkey, destroying 90 per cent of the buildings in the area, and causing over 32,000 deaths.
• 1979 – Soviet–Afghan War: Soviet troops stormed Tajbeg Palace outside Kabul and killed Afghan president Hafizullah Amin and his 100–150 elite guards.
• 2007 – Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated while leaving a Pakistan People's Party political rally at Liaqat National Bagh in Rawalpindi.

• Prince Rupert of the Rhine (b. 1619)
• Agda Meyerson (d. 1924)
• Chyna (b. 1969)
• Amy Vanderbilt (d. 1974)

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• December 28

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Manmohan Singh

• Former prime minister of India Manmohan Singh (pictured) dies at the age of 92.
• Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 crashes near Aktau International Airport, Kazakhstan, killing 38 people.
• A multi-vehicle crash in Minas Gerais, Brazil, leaves 41 people dead.
• A car attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, kills five people and injures more than two hundred others.

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• Israel–Hamas war
• Israeli invasion of Lebanon
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
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• Sudanese civil war
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• Patrick Pillay
• Ann Hartley
• Gaboro
• Slim Dunlap
• John Marsden
• James E. Malone Jr.

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