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    Farouk El-Baz (Arabic: فاروق الباز, Pronunciation: [fɑˈruːʔ elˈbæːz, fæˈruːʔ]) (born January 2, 1938) is an Egyptian American space scientist and geologist...
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    El-Baz, Farouk El-Baz, Laila El-Baz, Soraya El-Baz, Safa El-Baz, Hazim El-Baz and Nabeel El-Baz (the youngest).[citation needed] "Profile - Osama Al Baz"...
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  • Essam Heggy Farouk El-Baz Faten Zahran Mohammed Fawzia Fahim Gamal Hemdan Hamed Gohar Hesham Sallam Hussein Zedan Ibrahim Abouleish Kamal el-Mallakh Labib...
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    Egyptian TV Tomader Tawfik, footballer Mahmoud El Khatib and geologist Farouk El-Baz. The origin of the city's name is unknown. The ancient town Psembelle...
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    Farooq (redirect from Farouk)
    wrong." Farouk of Egypt (1920–1965), King of Egypt and the Sudan Farouk El-Baz (born 1938), scientist Farouk Hosny (born 1938), painter Farouk Janeman...
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  • bin Abdullah bin Baz (Arabic: عبد العزيز بن عبد الله بن باز; 1910–1999), Saudi Arabian Salafi or Wahhabi Islamic scholar Farouk El-Baz (Arabic: فاروق الباز;...
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    Medina, to run northeast to Kuwait. With the aid of satellite photos, Farouk El-Baz of Boston University traced the dry channel from Kuwait up the Wadi...
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    Other personnel Name Activities Farouk El-Baz Geologist, studied geology of the Moon, identified landing locations, trained pilots Kurt Debus Rocket scientist...
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    would be extensively involved in the geology planning for Apollo 13. Farouk El-Baz oversaw the training of Mattingly and his backup, Swigert, which involved...
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    for the pyramids and other monuments in the area. Egyptian geologist Farouk El-Baz has suggested that the head of the Sphinx may have been carved first...
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    Science Report, Volume II, Earth Observations and Photography Edited by Farouk El-Baz and D. M. Warner. Prepared by NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. NASA...
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    Mongolia Chao SC (1984). "The sandy deserts and the gobi of China". In Farouk El-Baz (ed.). Deserts and arid lands. pp. 95–113. doi:10.1007/978-94-009-6080-0_5...
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    given to a circular topographic feature that was identified in 2007 by Farouk El-Baz and Eman Ghoneim using satellite imagery, Radarsat-1, and Shuttle Radar...
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  • the Moon-rendezvous report that landed at Houbolts desk. Isa Totah as Farouk El-Baz, a lunar geologist who trains Apollo 15 Command Module Pilot Al Worden...
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    Mansoura, Egypt (redirect from El-Mansura)
    Orthodox Church of Alexandria Umm Kulthum, singer; title Kawkab al-Sharq Farouk El-Baz, space scientist. Ahmed Hamdi, engineer Hesham Sallam, paleontologist...
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    and attracted water birds which had rarely been seen in the valley. Farouk El-Baz piqued the interest of Biblical scholars around the world with his announcement...
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    originally discovered during the Apollo 16 mission and reported by Farouk El-Baz. The name Necho was proposed for the crater, but the name was eventually...
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    the Apollo 17 expedition. The name of the crater was proposed by Dr. Farouk El-Baz and approved by the IAU in 1976. Ching-Te, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature...
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  • shuttlepod, a lower budget alternative to the shuttlecraft, was named for Farouk El-Baz, a NASA scientist. Zack Handlen of The A.V. Club rated the episode A−...
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    touchable Moon rocks at a museum was suggested by Apollo scientist Farouk El-Baz, who was inspired by his childhood pilgrimage to Mecca where he touched...
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    training given to Apollo 13 prime crew CMP Mattingly by geologist Farouk El-Baz and got El-Baz to agree to undertake his training. The two men pored over lunar...
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    possibly take advantage of the filming of 2001 as the narrator says. Farouk El-Baz is presented as NASA technical director, a position he never held. Most...
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    National Petroleum Corporation, p. 9. Ralph Bagnold, 1939.[where?] Farouk El-Baz, in an entry for "Yardangs of the Western Desert of Egypt" in The Geology...
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    Egyptian/American geomorphologist. In March 2006, Dr. Ghoneim, together with Farouk El-Baz, discovered the Kebira Crater, a possible impact crater (astrobleme)...
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  • and children's literacy and as an ethical leader in the arts 2018: Farouk El-Baz, geologist and NASA space scientist, for his work locating essential...
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  • include the Egyptian American scientist Farouk El-Baz, the Egyptian Arabic poet Ahmed Fouad Negm, the writer Gamal El-Ghitani, and the telecommunications...
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  • Jr., and Schmitt) to the southwestern desert, while lunar geologist Farouk El-Baz trains the Command Module pilots (Alfred Worden and Vance D. Brand)...
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    was the now-defunct Kuwait River. With the aid of satellite photos, Farouk El-Baz traced the dry channel from Kuwait up the Wadi Al-Batin. Geography of...
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  • John H. Seinfeld M. Gordon Wolman Charles Goldman Fakhri A. Bazzaz Farouk El-Baz Donald Grayson Walter Alvarez Susan Lindquist James E. Hansen Francis...
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    was the now-defunct Kuwait River. With the aid of satellite photos, Farouk El-Baz traced the dry channel from Kuwait up the Wadi al-Batin. List of wadis...
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