The distinctive Indian culture and architecture, reflected in temples of Angkor, Cambodia, led to the area that includes Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam being called Indochina. People known as Mon and Khmer occupied the Cambodian area from the North and between A.D 800s and 1200s it was the center of the Khmer empire.
The average age of a SpaceX engineer is 26, Marcoe said, which was also the average age of NASAâs mission-control workers at the time of the first lunar landing. âThe unique thing about our club is weâre very self-driven and self-motivated,â he said.
Size does matter â especially to NASA. As early as 2009, applicants to the astronaut corps will face new size limits, including on weight and sitting height. That's a result of NASA's plan to retire the space shuttle in 2010 and switch entirely to smaller vehicles.The exact limits haven't been determined because new vehicles are still in development.he last time it recruited a new batch of astronauts, in 2003, the minimum height was 4 feet, 10Â½; the maximum was 6 feet, 4 inches. It would be the wrong thing to do to select people who aren't going to fit in your spaceship, says Duane Ross, NASA's head of astronaut selection.