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21Automated Transfer Vehicle — The Automated Transfer Vehicle or ATV is an expendable, unmanned resupply spacecraft developed by the European Space Agency (ESA). [cite web |title=Automated Transfer Vehicle, ESA document EUC ESA FSH 003 Rev 1.2 (specification)… …
22Ministry of Fuel and Energy (Ukraine) — Ministry of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine Міністерство палива та енергетики України Ministerial insignia …
23Nitrous oxide fuel blend — propellants are a class of liquid rocket propellants. The fuel and oxidizer are blended and stored, and are sometimes referred to as mixed monopropellants . Upon use, the propellant is heated or passed over a catalyst bed and the Nitrous oxide… …
24Butanol fuel — Butanol may be used as a fuel in an internal combustion engine. Because its longer hydrocarbon chain causes it to be fairly non polar, it is more similar to gasoline than is ethanol. Butanol has been demonstrated to work in some vehicles designed …
25Station-to-Shuttle Power Transfer System — The Station to Shuttle Power Transfer System (SSPTS; pronounced spits ) allows a docked Space Shuttle to make use of power provided by the International Space Station s solar arrays. Using this system reduces usage of a shuttle s onboard power… …
26United 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… …
27Aerial refueling — A C 17 Globemaster refuels through the boom of a Boeing KC 135 Stratotanker …
28International Space Station — ISS redirects here. For other uses, see ISS (disambiguation). International Space Station …
29STS-121 — Infobox Space mission mission name = STS 121 insignia = STS 121 patch.png shuttle = Discovery crew members = 7 up, 6 down launch pad = LC 39B launch = July 4, 2006, 18:37:55 UTC landing = July 17, 2006, 13:14:43 UTC duration = 12 days 18 hours 37 …
30STS-133 — Mission insignia Mission statistics Mission name STS 133 Space shuttle Discovery …
