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...e:Mercury 3.jpg - May 5, 1961 launch of Redstone rocket and NASA's Mercury spacecraft #7 ''Freedom 7'' with Alan Shepard Jr. on the United States' first human fl

...ircraft, and [[astronautics|astronautical engineering]], when referring to spacecraft. ...product, such as commercial aircraft, military fighter jets, helicopters, spacecraft, or missiles and rockets, and may become experts in aerodynamics, thermodyn

...s capability for space tourism. Their long term goal is manned [[orbital (spacecraft)|orbital]] spaceflight. True to their name an [[armadillo]] named "Widget

* ''Soyuz: A Universal Spacecraft'', Rex Hall, David J. Shayler (2003). ISBN 1-85233-657-9

==Spacecraft== ...0 controls: 55 electrical switches, 30 fuses and 35 mechanical levers. The spacecraft was designed by [[Maxime Faget|Max Faget]] and NASA's Space Task Group.

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...on, against the black background of space. It was taken from the Apollo 11 spacecraft during the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969.}} ...consisted of 5 parts: 3 rocket stages, an instrument unit, and the Apollo spacecraft.}}

are called [[spacecraft]].

...er stages. Each [[spacecraft]] consisted of an [[orbiter]] and a [[Lander (spacecraft)|lander]]. After orbiting Mars and returning images used for landing site s ==Spacecraft design==

Legally known as '''Boeing Company''', '''Boeing''' is an [[aircraft]] and [[spacecraft]] development company in the [[Aerospace]] industry. The company, together

On October 4, 2004 the experimental spacecraft [[SpaceShipOne]], won the prize. SpaceShipOne created by the Mojave Aerosp

...<ref>[http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_158.html Stardust Spacecraft Reaches for Cosmic Dust] (2002) Jet Propulsion Lab, NASA</ref> ...ns.<ref>[http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/instruments-cassini-cda.cfm SPACECRAFT - Cassini Orbiter Instruments - CDA] Jet Propulsion Lab, NASA</ref>

[[spacecraft]]

...he 1996 "balance" agreement that required the Russians to provide 11 Soyuz spacecraft to ferry joint U.S-Russian crews to and from the International Space Statio

...t because recent events (in the last few months) indicate that the "Orion" spacecraft program most probably will not be funded. I further made a great number of :::::::In addition to the details about the spacecraft components, it might be useful to add a chronological description of all th

...bit and exchanged brief communications with Bykovsky as they brought their spacecraft within 3 miles (5km) of each other. Tereshkova went on to achieve 48 orbits

...l Castillo]], [[Spain]]. NASA contributed the telescope, spectrograph, and spacecraft as well as launching facilities and a second ground observatory in [[Greenb

...pace industry, chiefly on the design of control systems for satellites and spacecraft.

...ollision. Large debris can severely damage or destroy a satellite or other spacecraft on impact. Defunct satellites aren't the only pieces of debris in orbit, however. Spacecraft from Earth are launched on multiple-stage [[rockets]], and the upper stages

Recent images from the Cassini spacecraft show that Saturn's northern hermisphere is changing colors. It now appears While approaching Saturn in 2004, the [[Cassini-Huygens|Cassini]] spacecraft found that the radio rotation period of Saturn had increased slightly, to a