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  • 61Scaled Composites Tier One — Tier One redirects here. For other uses, see Tier 1 (disambiguation). Tier One is Scaled Composites program of suborbital human spaceflight using the reusable spacecraft SpaceShipOne and its launcher White Knight. The craft was designed by Burt …

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  • 62Space Shuttle — STS redirects here. For other uses, see STS (disambiguation). This article is about the NASA Space Transportation System vehicle. For the associated NASA STS program, see Space Shuttle program. For other shuttles and aerospace vehicles, see… …

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  • 63Rocket — This article is about vehicles powered by rocket engines. For other uses, see Rocket (disambiguation). A Soyuz U, at Baikonur Site 1/5 A rocket is a missile, spacecraft, aircraft or other vehicle which obtains thrust from a rocket engi …

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  • 64Mercury-Redstone 4 — Mission insignia Mission statistics Mission name Mercury Redstone 4 Spacecraft name Liberty Bell 7 Spacecraft mass 1,286 …

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  • 65N1 (rocket) — This article is about the Soviet rocket. For the Japanese rocket, see N I rocket N1 N1 L3 rocket on the launchpad at Baikonur Cosmodrome Function Manned lunar carrier rocket Manufacturer OKB 1 Country of origin …

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  • 66Apollo 15, Outward journey — Launching at 9:34:00 am EST on July 26, 1971, Apollo 15 would take four days to reach the Moon. After spending two hours in orbit around the Earth, the S IVB third stage of the Saturn V was reignited to send them to the Moon.During the retrieval… …

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  • 67Bussard ramjet — The Bussard ramjet is a theoretical method of spacecraft propulsion proposed in 1960 by the physicist Robert W. Bussard, popularized by Larry Niven in his Known Space series of books, and referenced by Carl Sagan in the television series and book …

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  • 68Space accidents and incidents — Space accidents, either during operations or training for spaceflights, have killed 22 astronauts (five percent of all people who have been in space, two percent of individual spaceflights), and a much larger number of ground crew. This article… …

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  • 69Hayabusa — This article is about the spacecraft. For other uses, see Hayabusa (disambiguation). Hayabusa A computer rendering of Hayabusa above Itokawa s surface Operator …

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  • 70Physical Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Scientists discovered a new family of superconducting materials and obtained unique images of individual hydrogen atoms and of a multiple exoplanet system. Europe completed the Large Hadron Collider, and China and India took… …

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