advanced military spaceflight capability
31Spaceplane — A Space Shuttle rocketing into space, just after booster separation. A spaceplane is a vehicle that operates as an aircraft in Earth s atmosphere, as well as a spacecraft when it is in space. It combines features of an aircraft and a spacecraft,… …
32Viking (rocket) — The Viking 10 rocket, finally flown 7 May 1954. The Viking rocket series of sounding rockets were designed and built by the Glenn L. Martin Company (now Lockheed Martin) under the direction of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). Twelve… …
33F-104 Starfighter — infobox Aircraft name= F 104 Starfighter caption= A Fokker built, German owned F 104G in USAF markings in August 1979 type= Interceptor aircraft, fighter bomber national oigin = United States manufacturer= Lockheed designer= Clarence Kelly… …
34Neil Armstrong — For other uses, see Neil Armstrong (disambiguation) …
35Moon landing — For other uses, see Moon landing (disambiguation). Still frame from the video transmission of Neil Armstrong stepping onto the surface of the Moon at 02:56 UTC on 21 July 1969. An estimated 500 million people worldwide watched this event,… …
36Air Rescue Service — The Air Rescue Service (ARS) was a former subcommand of the Military Air Transport Service (MATS), a major command of the United States Air Force. On 1 Jan 1966, MATS was redesignated as the Military Airlift Command and ARS was redesignated as… …
37Space Shuttle program — This article is about the United States Space Shuttle program. For the shuttle itself, see Space Shuttle. For information on the Soviet space shuttle program, see the article Buran program. Space Shuttle program Duration 1981 2011 …
38LGM-30 Minuteman — Type Intercontinental ballistic missile Service hist …
39Space debris — populations seen from outside geosynchronous orbit (GEO). Note the two primary debris fields, the ring of objects in GEO, and the cloud of objects in low earth orbit (LEO) …
40TecSAR — Ofek 8 redirects here. For the optical reconnaissance satellite which was known as Ofek 8 prior to launch, see Ofek 9. TecSAR (TechSAR/Polaris) Operator IAI Mission type Reconnaissance Launch date 21 January 2008, 03:45 GMT …
