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31Single-stage-to-orbit — The VentureStar was a proposed SSTO spaceplane. A single stage to orbit (or SSTO) vehicle reaches orbit from the surface of a body without jettisoning hardware, expending only propellants and fluids. The term usually, but not exclusively, refers… …
32Mars Express — CG image of Mars Express Operator ESA Mission type Orbiter + Lander Satellite of …
33Gyro monorail — The gyro monorail, gyroscopic monorail, gyro stabilized monorail, or gyrocar all denote a single rail land vehicle, road or rail, which uses the gyroscopic action of a spinning wheel, which is forced to precess, to overcome the inherent inverted… …
34Start-1 — infobox rocket name = Start 1 imsize = 225 caption = Start 1 launch vehicle lifting off from the Svobodny launch site function = Small orbital launch vehicle manufacturer = Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology country origin = Russia height =… …
35Dragon (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 …
36Space Shuttle design process — See also Space Shuttle program Conception and development North American Rockwell Shuttle, 1969 Even before the Apollo moon landing in 1969, in October 1968, NASA began early studies of space shuttle designs. The early studies were denoted Phase… …
37Real-time Transport Protocol — The Real time Transport Protocol (or RTP) defines a standardized packet format for delivering audio and video over the Internet. It was developed by the Audio Video Transport Working Group of the IETF and first published in 1996 as RFC 1889 which …
38Juno I — Infobox rocket imsize = 200 caption =Juno I satellite launch vehicle. (USAF) name = Juno I function =Orbital launch vehicle manufacturer =Army Ballistic Missile Agency country origin = United States height =21.2 m (69.5 feet) alt height =… …
39Rocket engine — RS 68 being tested at NASA s Stennis Space Center. The nearly transparent exhaust is due to this engine s exhaust being mostly superheated steam (water vapor from its propellants, hydrogen and oxygen) …
40STS-43 — Infobox Space mission mission name = STS 43 insignia = Sts 43 patch.png shuttle = Atlantis launch pad = 39 A launch = August 2, 1991, 11:01:59 a.m. EDT landing = August 11, 1991, 8:23:25 a.m. EDT, Runway 15, Kennedy Space Center, Fla duration =… …
