astronautical craft
1Aerospace engineering — Aerospace Engineer NASA engineers, the ones depicted in the film Apollo 13, worked diligently to protect the lives of the astronauts on the mission. Occupation Names engineer aerospace engineer …
2List of spacecraft from the Space Odyssey series — Aries Ib redirects here. For the Project Constellation spacecraft operated by NASA, see Aries Ib. Various fictional spacecraft have appeared in the Space Odyssey series by Arthur C. Clarke. Most prominent is the Discovery One famously controlled… …
3Hayabusa — This article is about the spacecraft. For other uses, see Hayabusa (disambiguation). Hayabusa A computer rendering of Hayabusa above Itokawa s surface Operator …
4Space Race — For a discussion of all spaceflight programs to date, see History of spaceflight. For a list of key events, see Timeline of space exploration. For other uses of the term, see Space Race (disambiguation). A replica of Sputnik 1, the world s… …
5Virgin Galactic — Infobox Company company name = Virgin Galactic company company type = Private company slogan = Space is Virgin territory foundation = 2004 location = New Mexico, USA key people = Richard Branson(UK) Will Whitehorn num employees = 30 owner =… …
6Mariner 1 — Launch of Mariner 1 Mariner 1 was the first spacecraft of the American Mariner program. Launched on July 22, 1962 as a Venus flyby mission, a range safety officer ordered its destructive abort at 09:26:16 UT, 294.5 seconds after launch.[1]… …
7space exploration — Investigation of the universe beyond Earth s atmosphere by means of manned and unmanned spacecraft. Study of the use of rockets for spaceflight began early in the 20th century. Germany s research on rocket propulsion in the 1930s led to… …
8International Space Station — ISS redirects here. For other uses, see ISS (disambiguation). International Space Station …
9Solar sail — Solar sails (also called light sails or photon sails, especially when they use light sources other than the Sun) are a proposed form of spacecraft propulsion using large membrane mirrors. Radiation pressure is about 10 5 Pa at Earth s distance… …
10Space elevator economics — compared and contrasted with the economics of alternatives, like rockets. Costs of current systems (rockets) The costs of using a well tested system to launch payloads are high. Prices range from about $4,300/kg for a Proton launch [cite web… …
