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  • Thumbnail for Private spaceflight
    Private spaceflight refers to spaceflight activities undertaken by non-governmental entities, such as corporations, individuals, or non-profit organizations...
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    Adirondack is the nickname for Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's first target rock.[citation needed] Scientists chose Adirondack to be Spirit's first target...
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  • McCool Hill is the tallest of the Columbia Hills in Gusev crater, Mars. It was named in honor of William C. McCool, an astronaut of the Space Shuttle Columbia...
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    The Aurora programme (sometimes called Aurora Exploration Programme, or simply Exploration Programme) was a human spaceflight programme of the European...
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    Kliper (Клипер, English: Clipper) was an early-2000s proposed partially-reusable (excluding orbital section and thermal protection shield) crewed spacecraft...
    33 KB (3,582 words) - 08:34, 15 April 2024
  • The Multi-Application Survivable Tether (MAST) experiment was an in-space investigation designed to use CubeSat spacecraft connected by tethers to better...
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  • Thumbnail for Scientific information from the Mars Exploration Rover mission
    NASA's 2003 Mars Exploration Rover Mission has amassed an enormous amount of scientific information related to the Martian geology and atmosphere, as well...
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    On 6 December 2007, Odyssey Moon was the first team to register for the Google Lunar X Prize competition, an event that hopes to rekindle the efforts of...
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  • This is the timeline for STS-121, the mission to the ISS. The shuttle was docked to the ISS for the majority of the flight. For much of the time the shuttle...
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  • An astro-comb is a type of frequency comb used in observational astronomy to increase the accuracy of wavelength calibration in spectrographs. The increased...
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