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121Crawler-transporter — Manufacturer Marion Power Shovel Engine Two 2,750 horsepower (2,050 kW) V16 Alco diesel engines. Two 1,006 horsepowe …
122Orbit attitude and maneuvering system — OAMS redirects here. For the airport with ICAO code OAMS, see Mazar i Sharif Airport. The orbit attitude and maneuvering system (OAMS) was a propulsion system used in orbit by the Gemini spacecraft. Operations Besides providing rotation control… …
123Venus in fiction — In science fiction stories of the 1920s 1960s, the planet Venus was frequently described as a tropical planet, hot and misty, covered with jungle, swamps, and oceans. In 1918, chemist Svante Arrhenius, deciding that Venus cloud cover was… …
124Planetary Grand Tour — The Planetary Grand Tour was an ambitious plan to send unmanned probes to the outermost planets of the solar system. Conceived by Gary Flandro of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Grand Tour would have exploited the alignment of Jupiter, Saturn …
125History of Earth — The history of Earth covers approximately 4.6 billion years (4,567,000,000 years), from Earth’s formation out of the solar nebula to the present. This article presents a broad overview, summarizing the leading, most current scientific… …
126William Adama — Bill Adama Battlestar Galactica character Edward James Olmos as William Adama First appearance Miniseries Portrayed by Ed …
127Battle between HMAS Sydney and German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle between HMAS Sydney and German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran partof=World War II caption= HMAS Sydney in 1940. date=19 November 1941 place=coord|26|9|50|S|111|4|25|E|type:landmark… …
128Observations and explorations of Venus — Venus in real color as it would appear to the naked eye. Observations of the planet Venus were first recorded by Babylonian astronomers around 1600 BC and have continued into the present.[dubious – …
