unmanned rendezvous
51STS-133 — Mission insignia Mission statistics Mission name STS 133 Space shuttle Discovery …
52Criticism of the Space Shuttle program — stems from claims that NASA s Shuttle program has failed to achieve its promised cost and utility goals, as well as design, cost, management, and safety issues.[1] More specifically, it has failed in the goal of reducing the cost of space access …
53Space 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… …
54Solar sail — Solar sails (also called light sails or photon sails, especially when they use light sources other than the Sun) are a proposed form of spacecraft propulsion using large membrane mirrors. Radiation pressure is about 10 5 Pa at Earth s distance… …
55Space 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) …
56Ares IV — The Ares IV launch vehicle is the third in a series of proposed heavy lift space launch vehicles that will support Project Constellation, the United States next program of space exploration. The Ares IV was ultimately dropped from further… …
57N1 (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 …
58Shuttle-Derived Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle — This article is about a side mount concept. For other concepts of Shuttle Derived Heavy Lift Launch Vehicles, see Shuttle Derived Launch Vehicle. Artist impression of the Shuttle Derived HLV concept The Shuttle Derived Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle,… …
59Interstellar travel — Montage of fusion powered rocket concepts from 1987–2004, which could form the basis for an interstellar vehicle. Included are: VISTA (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories,1987), Discovery II (NASA/GRC, 2002), Human Outer Planet Exploration… …
60Progress spacecraft — The Progress is a Russian expendable freighter spacecraft. The spacecraft is an unmanned resupply spacecraft during its flight but upon docking with a space station it allows astronauts inside, hence it is classified manned by the manufacturer. [ …
