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1Marshall Space Flight Center — George C. Marshall Space Flight Center Aerial view of the test area at MSFC …
2Rotary Rocket — Rotary Rocket, Inc, was a rocketry company headquartered in a convert|45000|sqft|m2|sing=on facility at Mojave Airport that developed the Roton concept in the late 1990s as a fully reusable Single Stage to Orbit (SSTO) manned spacecraft. Roton… …
3Soyuz (rocket family) — Soyuz A Soyuz U on the launch pad, ahead of the Soyuz 19 (ASTP) launch on 1975 07 15 Function Carrier rocket Manufacturer OKB 1 TsSKB Progress Country of o …
4Military Affairs — ▪ 2009 Introduction Russia and Georgia fought a short, intense war in 2008, fueling global fears of a new Cold War. On August 7 Georgia launched an aerial bombardment and ground attacks against its breakaway province of South Ossetia.… …
52008 in spaceflight — |11 January, 05:32 GMT [cite web url= http://sites.wff.nasa.gov/code810/news/story80.html title= 36.243 UG McCandliss/Johns Hopkins University accessdate= 2008 03 15 author= date= 2008 01 11 format= html publisher= NASA Sounding Rockets Office… …
6space 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… …
7aerospace 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 …
8Wernher von Braun — Von Braun at his desk at Marshall Space Flight Center in May 1964, with models of the Saturn rocket family Born March 23, 1912(1912 03 23) Wirsitz, German Empire …
9Mathematics and Physical Sciences — ▪ 2003 Introduction Mathematics Mathematics in 2002 was marked by two discoveries in number theory. The first may have practical implications; the second satisfied a 150 year old curiosity. Computer scientist Manindra Agrawal of the… …
10List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents — Death in space redirects here. For death in specifically outer space conditions, see Space exposure. Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates 73 seconds after launch, due to hot gases escaping the SRBs leading to structural failure of the external… …
