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1pig|gy|back — «PIHG ee BAK», adverb, adjective, noun, verb. –adv. on the back or shoulders: »a father carrying a baby piggyback. Flatcars often take trucks piggyback from one place to another. –adj. 1. of or having to do with the transporting of loaded truck… …
2International Space Station — ISS redirects here. For other uses, see ISS (disambiguation). International Space Station …
3Mathematics and Physical Sciences — ▪ 2003 Introduction Mathematics Mathematics in 2002 was marked by two discoveries in number theory. The first may have practical implications; the second satisfied a 150 year old curiosity. Computer scientist Manindra Agrawal of the… …
4Formation and evolution of the Solar System — Artist s conception of a protoplanetary disk The formation and evolution of the Solar System is estimated to have begun 4.568 billion years ago with the gravitational collapse of a small part of a giant molecular cloud …
5Space 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… …
6Marshall Space Flight Center — George C. Marshall Space Flight Center Aerial view of the test area at MSFC …
7STS-121 — Infobox Space mission mission name = STS 121 insignia = STS 121 patch.png shuttle = Discovery crew members = 7 up, 6 down launch pad = LC 39B launch = July 4, 2006, 18:37:55 UTC landing = July 17, 2006, 13:14:43 UTC duration = 12 days 18 hours 37 …
8Earth Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Geology and Geochemistry The theme of the 33rd International Geological Congress, which was held in Norway in August 2008, was “Earth System Science: Foundation for Sustainable Development.” It was attended by nearly… …
9Physical 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… …
10Space manufacturing — is the production of manufactured goods in an environment outside a planetary atmosphere. Typically this includes conditions of microgravity and hard vacuum.Manufacturing in space has several potential advantages over Earth based industry.# The… …
