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  • Mission Aloft is a board wargame published by Jim Bumpas in 1977 that simulates aerial missions against ground targets in the 1960s and 70s. Mission Aloft...
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    include total time aloft along with airborne time atop of the SCA. One initial emergency flight abort (RTLS) sub-orbital test mission was canceled due to...
    127 KB (4,411 words) - 13:10, 23 August 2024
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    Swedish national Frisbee champion, held the national title in "maximum time aloft" in 1978, and subsequently competed in the 1981 World Frisbee Championship...
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    GRAIL (redirect from GRAIL mission)
    Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) was an American lunar science mission in NASA's Discovery Program which used high-quality gravitational field...
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    Winds Aloft on Saturn". NASA & JPL. 26 March 2004. Archived from the original on 9 November 2023. Retrieved 14 October 2006. "Cassini Solstice Mission: Cassini...
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    The Jesuit missions among the Guaraní were a type of settlement for the Guaraní people ("Indians" or "Indios") in an area straddling the borders of present-day...
    32 KB (3,788 words) - 00:31, 16 September 2024
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    Ingenuity (helicopter) (category Missions to Mars)
    helicopters. This density reduces even more in Martian winters. To keep Ingenuity aloft, its specially shaped blades of enlarged size must rotate between 2400 and...
    125 KB (10,068 words) - 14:18, 7 October 2024
  • "Holding the Heavens Aloft, United (Part 14)" 187. "Holding the Heavens Aloft, United (Part 15)" 188. "Holding the Heavens Aloft, United (Part 16)" 189...
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    dramatic and best known program requiring that nuclear weapons be kept aloft." On 22 October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the airborne alert...
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    October 2014. David, Leonard (23 June 2005). "White Knight carries X-37 aloft". CNN. Archived from the original on 9 November 2012. Retrieved 15 October...
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    ordered all fighter aircraft aloft, deployed in several layers of CAP to await the Japanese. He then sent his bomber aircraft aloft to orbit open waters to...
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    aircraft which is carried aloft and air launched by a larger carrier aircraft or mother ship to support the primary mission of the carrier. The carrier...
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    cargo mission capability also. The aircraft is not equipped for aerial refueling, but with wing-mounted auxiliary fuel tanks is capable of staying aloft almost...
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    was the third crewed Skylab mission and placed the third and final crew aboard the first American space station. The mission began on November 16, 1973...
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  • control system was insufficient for safe takeoff, so each drone was taken aloft by a volunteer crew of a pilot and a flight engineer to an altitude of 2...
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    1957 in 45 hours and 19 minutes, using in-flight refueling to stay aloft. The mission was intended to demonstrate that the United States had the ability...
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    Soyuz 30 (category Crewed Soyuz missions)
    Mirosław Hermaszewski, the first (and to date, only) Polish cosmonaut, aloft. Mass: 6,800 kg (15,000 lb) Perigee: 197.6 km (122.8 mi) Apogee: 261.3 km...
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    performed three aborted missions (1-A-2, 1-A-3, and 1-A-4), and then performed its first successful free flight on its fifth time taken aloft (1-1-5). On 9 November...
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    1783 when the Montgolfier brothers sent a sheep, a duck, and a rooster aloft in a hot air balloon to see if ground-dwelling animals can survive (the...
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    Morning Journal. Florida. 16 November 1973. p. 1A. "Third Skylab crew fired aloft". Spokane Daily Chronicle. Washington. Associated Press. 16 November 1973...
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