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1Marshall Space Flight Center — George C. Marshall Space Flight Center Aerial view of the test area at MSFC …
2balloon flight — ▪ aviation Introduction passage through the air of a balloon that contains a buoyant gas, such as helium or heated air, for which reason it is also known as lighter than air free flight. Unmanned balloons have been used to carry meteorological… …
3Advanced Flight Simulation devices — A flight simulator is a system that emulates and reproduces the actual experience of flying an aircraft as realistic as possible. The different types of flight simulator range from video games up to full size cockpit replicas mounted on hydraulic …
4Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 — Infobox Airliner accident|name=Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 Date= 4 October 2001 Type=Cause in dispute Site=Black Sea Fatalities=78 Injuries=0 Aircraft Type=Tupolev 154M Origin=Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel… …
53D scanner — A 3D scanner is a device that analyzes a real world object or environment to collect data on its shape and possibly its appearance (i.e. color). The collected data can then be used to construct digital, three dimensional models useful for a wide… …
6Saturn in fiction — The planet Saturn is featured in numerous science fiction novels and films, although the planet itself usually serves more as a pretty backdrop than as the actual setting.On Saturn Literature * In Voltaire s Micromégas (1752), the eponymous hero… …
7cosmos — /koz meuhs, mohs/, n., pl. cosmos, cosmoses for 2, 4. 1. the world or universe regarded as an orderly, harmonious system. 2. a complete, orderly, harmonious system. 3. order; harmony. 4. any composite plant of the genus Cosmos, of tropical… …
8Mathematics and Physical Sciences — ▪ 2003 Introduction Mathematics Mathematics in 2002 was marked by two discoveries in number theory. The first may have practical implications; the second satisfied a 150 year old curiosity. Computer scientist Manindra Agrawal of the… …
9Physical Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Scientists discovered a new family of superconducting materials and obtained unique images of individual hydrogen atoms and of a multiple exoplanet system. Europe completed the Large Hadron Collider, and China and India took… …
10Nuclear weapon design — The first nuclear weapons, though large, cumbersome and inefficient, provided the basic design building blocks of all future weapons. Here the Gadget device is prepared for the first nuclear test: Trinity. Nuclear weapon designs are physical,… …
