ballistic maneuvering reentry vehicle
21Soyuz-TMA — The Soyuz TMA (T транспортный Transportnyi meaning transport, M модифицированный Modifitsirovannyi meaning modified, A антропометрический, Antropometricheskii meaning anthropometric) design is the most recent revision of the Soyuz spacecraft used …
22Project Mercury — Duration 1959 1963 Goal Place Americans into orbit for as long as one day Achievements First manned flight: May 5, 1961 First orbital flight …
23Hayabusa — This article is about the spacecraft. For other uses, see Hayabusa (disambiguation). Hayabusa A computer rendering of Hayabusa above Itokawa s surface Operator …
24Dragon (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 …
25Physical 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… …
26Waverider — A waverider is a hypersonic aircraft design that improves its supersonic lift to drag ratio by producing a lifting surface built out of the shock waves being generated by its own flight, a technique known as compression lift. To date the only… …
27Fictional military aircraft — are imagined aircraft which are used in fiction, in its various media, but do not exist in the real world. These aircraft may be conjectured variants of real world aircraft or they may be completely fabricated by the author. Contents 1 Fictional… …
28Kinetic bombardment — Kinetic strike redirects here. For the political euphemism, see kinetic military action. For the generic concept of attacking a planetary surface from orbit, see Orbital bombardment. A kinetic bombardment is the act of attacking a planetary… …
29Bipropellant rocket — A bipropellant rocket engine is a rocket engine that uses two propellants (very often liquid propellants) which are kept separately prior to reacting to form a hot gas to be used for propulsion.In contrast, most solid rockets have single solid… …
