(orbital transfer vehicle)
41ROTV — Reusable Orbital Transfer Vehicle Contributor: CASI …
42MOTV — acronym Manned Orbital Transfer Vehicle (Space) …
43OTV — acronym Orbital Transfer Vehicle (Space) …
44Human spaceflight — Orbital Human spaceflight Name Debut Launches Vostok 1961 6 Mercury 1962 4 Voskhod 1964 2 Gemini 1965 …
45International Space Station — ISS redirects here. For other uses, see ISS (disambiguation). International Space Station …
46Cygnus (spacecraft) — Cygnus spacecraft Description Role: Under development To be used to supply the International Space Station because of the retirement of the Space Shuttle Crew: 0 Carrier Rocket: Taurus I …
47space 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… …
48Physical 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… …
49Space rendezvous — A space rendezvous is an orbital maneuver during which two spacecraft, one of which is often a space station, arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance (e.g. within visual contact). Rendezvous requires a precise match of the… …
50Dragon (spacecraft) — SpaceX Dragon spacecraft Artist s rendering of the cargo variant of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft (bottom) berthing to the International Space Station (top). Description Role: Commercial: various roles that put humans and cargo into LEO …
