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21Wernher 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 …
22Constellation program — logo Constellation Program (abbreviated CxP) is a human spaceflight program within NASA, the space agency of the United States. The stated goals of the program were to gain significant experience in operating away from Earth s environment,… …
23Essex class aircraft carrier — Essex was a class of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy, which constituted the 20th century s most numerous class of heavy warships, with 24 ships built. These included members of the long hull Ticonderoga variant/subclass, which some… …
24aerospace 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 …
25List of Apollo astronauts — Eugene Cernan operating the Lunar rover during Apollo 17 Forty one astronauts were assigned to fly Apollo spacecraft; thirty two of them were part of the Apollo program, with the rest not flying until the subsequent Skylab and Apollo Soyuz… …
26Space 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) …
27List 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… …
28SM-65 Atlas — Main article: Atlas (rocket family) B 65/SM 65/CGM 16/HGM 16 Atlas Launch of an SM 65A Atlas from LC 12, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, 20 February 1958 Type …
29Apollo Moon Landing hoax conspiracy theories — are claims that some or all elements of the Apollo Moon landings were faked by NASA and possibly members of other involved organizations. Some groups and individuals have advanced various theories which tend, to varying degrees, to include the… …
30Dragon (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 …
