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91Spaceplane — A Space Shuttle rocketing into space, just after booster separation. A spaceplane is a vehicle that operates as an aircraft in Earth s atmosphere, as well as a spacecraft when it is in space. It combines features of an aircraft and a spacecraft,… …
92Flight controller — Flight controllers are personnel who aid in the operations of a space flight, working in Mission Control Centers such as NASA s Mission Control Center, or ESA s Operations Center. Flight controllers sit at computer consoles and use telemetry to… …
93ship — shipless, adj. shiplessly, adv. /ship/, n., v., shipped, shipping. n. 1. a vessel, esp. a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines. 2. Naut. a. a sailing vessel square rigged on all of three or more masts, having jibs, staysails, and a… …
94Swarming (military) — Swarming is a behavior in which autonomous, or semi autonomous, units of action attack an enemy from several different directions and then regroup. Pulsing , where the units shift the point of attack, is a necessary part of swarming. Swarming is… …
95Dawn (spacecraft) — Dawn Artist s concept of Dawn with Vesta (left) Ceres (right) (the proximity of Vesta to Ceres is not to scale.) Operator NASA Major contractors Orbital Sciences, JPL, UCLA …
96Project Gemini — This article is about the NASA program. For other uses, see Gemini (disambiguation). Project Gemini Duration 1962 1966 Goals Long duration spaceflight; rendezvous and docking; extra vehicular activity; targeted re entry and Earth landing …
97Weightlessness — Zero gravity redirects here. For other uses, see Zero gravity (disambiguation). Zero G redirects here. For other uses, see Zero G (disambiguation). 0G redirects here. For other uses, see 0G (disambiguation). Weightlessness (or zero g) is the… …
98Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar — X 20 Dyna Soar Artist s impression of the X 20 during re entry Country United States Contract award 24 October 1957 – 10 December 1963 …
99international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …
100Satellite — This article is about artificial satellites. For natural satellites, also known as moons, see Natural satellite. For other uses, see Satellite (disambiguation). An animation depicting the orbits of GPS satellites in medium Earth orbit …
