It took feats of engineering and deft piloting to map the planet’s topography, an achievement that continues to pay dividends decades later. In 2000, Commander Kevin Kregel led the Endeavour space shuttle mission, equipped with a 200-foot-long mast for the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) to create a detailed 3D map of Earth. Despite technical [...]from SciTechDaily https://ift.tt/H3yQDne
