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11DF-25 — Type IRBM Unit cost  ? …
12Lockheed Martin Space Systems — is one of the 4 major business divisions of Lockheed Martin. It is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.From a rich history of major companies Lockheed Martin has brought them together to offer design, integration, and production of:* satellites for …
13space 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… …
14Space 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… …
15Moon 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,… …
16United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
17aerospace industry — Introduction assemblage of manufacturing concerns that deal with vehicular flight within and beyond the Earth s atmosphere. (The term aerospace is derived from the words aeronautics and spaceflight.) The aerospace industry is engaged in the …
18Soyuz spacecraft — Soyuz (Russian: Союз , pronounced|saˈjus); English: Union) is a series of spacecraft designed for the Soviet space program by the Korolyov Design Bureau. The Soyuz succeeded the Voskhod spacecraft and was originally built as part of the Soviet… …
19Spaceflight — For the magazine published by the British Interplanetary Society, see Spaceflight (magazine). For the 1985 PBS documentary series narrated by Martin Sheen, see Spaceflight (TV series). For the Sam Lazar album, see Space Flight (album). Part of a… …
20Spaceplane — 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,… …
