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  • Thumbnail for Rockwell X-30
    The Rockwell X-30 was an advanced technology demonstrator project for the National Aero-Space Plane (NASP), part of a United States project to create a...
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    AS-201 (Also known as SA-201 or Apollo 1-A), flown February 26, 1966, was the first uncrewed test flight of an entire production Block I Apollo command...
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    Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Spanish: Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, ORM) is an astronomical observatory located in the municipality of...
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  • AMC-14 is a communications satellite. Initially owned by SES Americom, AMC-14 was designed to be placed in geostationary orbit, following launch on a Proton-M...
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    Mare Frigoris /frɪˈɡɔːrɪs/ (Latin frīgōris, the "Sea of Cold") is a lunar mare in the far north of the Moon. It is located in the outer rings of the Procellarum...
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  • Star Bus is a satellite bus family of Orbital ATK. It was originally developed by Thomas van der Heyden, co-founder of CTAI, and later sold to and manufactured...
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    James Gilbert Baker (November 11, 1914 – June 29, 2005) was an American astronomer and designer of optics systems. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky...
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  • 4197 Morpheus, provisional designation 1982 TA, is a highly eccentric asteroid and near-Earth object of the Apollo group, approximately 3 kilometers in...
    14 KB (965 words) - 01:49, 26 December 2023
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    The Canadian Arrow was a privately funded, early-2000s rocket and space tourism project concept founded by London, Ontario, Canada entrepreneurs Geoff...
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  • Thumbnail for Absolute rotation
    In physics, the concept of absolute rotation—rotation independent of any external reference—is a topic of debate about relativity, cosmology, and the nature...
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  • Marooned on Mars is a juvenile science fiction novel written by American writer Lester del Rey. It was published by John C. Winston Co. in 1952 with illustrations...
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  • The DH-1 was a circa-2005 reusable two-stage-to-orbit rocket concept proposed in the book The Rocket Company by Patrick J. G. Stiennon, David M. Hoerr...
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    The Pulkovo meridian, which passes through the center of the main building of the Pulkovo Observatory and is at 30°19,6‘[citation needed] east of Greenwich...
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