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Parent topics

• Engineering [r]: a branch of engineering that uses chemistry, biology, physics, and math to solve problems involving fuel, drugs, food, and many other products. ^[e]
• History [r]: Study of past human events based on evidence such as written documents. ^[e]
• Physics [r]: The study of forces and energies in space and time. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Aerospace engineering [r]: The branch of engineering that concerns aircraft, spacecraft, and related topics. ^[e]
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration [r]: Independent agency of the U.S. government responsible for the nation's public space program. ^[e]
• Spacecraft [r]: Vehicle designed to operate, with or without a crew, for use beyond the Earth's atmosphere. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Apollo 13 (mission) [r]: An unsuccessful mission of Project Apollo that was abandoned due to an on-board explosion while the craft was journeying to the moon. ^[e]
• Apollo Command-Service Module [r]: Three-man spacecraft built for NASA by North American Aviation, and one of the two spacecraft that were utilized for the Apollo program, along with the Lunar Module, to land astronauts on the Moon. ^[e]
• Apollo Moon landing hoax theory [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Atmospheric reentry [r]: The movement of human-made or natural objects as they enter the atmosphere of a planet from outer space, in the case of Earth from an altitude above the 'edge of space.' ^[e]
• Edwin ("Buzz") Aldrin [r]: Add brief definition or description
• International Space Station [r]: A space station currently in earth orbit assembled collaboratively by the space agencies of many nations. ^[e]
• Moon [r]: a naturally-occurring satellite that is in orbit around a planet; the moon is the Earth's only satellite. ^[e]
• Neil Armstrong [r]: (1930 - 2012) American astronaut and the first human being to walk on the Moon as part of NASA's Apollo 11 project on On July 16, 1969. ^[e]
• Project Mercury [r]: The United States' first manned spaceflight program. ^[e]
• Rocket science [r]: Variously an incorrect name for various engineering disciplines in dealing with unguided rockets or the rocket engines of more intelligent vehicles, or an ironic description of something very complex or very simple (i.e., "this isn't rocket science") ^[e]
• Space Race [r]: A competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union, which lasted roughly from 1957 to 1975. ^[e]
• Space Shuttle program [r]: The current US manned space program which began with its first flight, STS-1, on April 12, 1981; also known as the Space Transportation System. ^[e]
• Space Shuttle Challenger disaster [r]: The disintegration of the Challenger shortly after takeoff on January 28, 1986. ^[e]