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• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Solar System
  Pluto
  Kuiper Belt
  Jupiter
  Eris (Xena)
   
  

  Asteroid belt

  The asteroid belt is a region of the solar system falling roughly between the planets Mars and Jupiter where the greatest concentration of asteroid orbits can be found. Despite popular imagery, the ... > more
• Sports Science
  Vehicles
  Aviation
  Space Probes
  Space Exploration
  Space Station
   
  

  Model rocket

  Model rocketry is a hobby similar to building model airplanes. In the hobby today, there are two distinct areas of rocket activity: amateur (or experimental) rocketry, and model rocketry (including ... > more
• Kuiper Belt
  Space Station
  Space Probes
  Space Exploration
  Eris (Xena)
  Astronomy
   
  

  Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne

  The Scaled Composites Model 316 SpaceShipOne is an experimental air-launched suborbital spaceplane that uses a hybrid rocket motor. The design features a unique "shuttlecock" reentry system whose ... > more
• Space Station
  NASA
  Space Missions
  Space Exploration
  Space Probes
  Astronomy
   
  

  International Space Station

  The International Space Station (ISS) is a joint project of five space agencies. The ISS has seen the first space tourist, Dennis Tito, who spent 20 million USD to fly aboard a Russian supply mission ... > more
• Solar System
  Uranus
  Moon
  Pluto
  Jupiter
  Satellites
   
  

  Uranus' natural satellites

  Uranus has 27 known moons. The first two moons (Titania and Oberon) were discovered by William Herschel on March 13, 1787. Two more moons (Ariel and Umbriel) were discovered by William Lassell in ... > more
• Moon
  Space Missions
  NASA
  Space Exploration
  Space Probes
  Space Station
   
  

  Neil Armstrong

  Neil Alden Armstrong (born August 5, 1930) is a former American astronaut, test pilot, naval aviator. He is famous as the first human ever to step foot on the ... > more
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Solar System
  NASA
  Pluto
  Moon
  Satellites
   
  

  Near-Earth object

  Near-Earth objects (NEO) are asteroids, comets and large meteoroids whose orbit intersects Earth's orbit and which may therefore pose a collision danger. Due to their size and proximity, NEOs are ... > more
• Solar System
  Saturn
  Moon
  Pluto
  Jupiter
  Satellites
   
  

  Saturn's natural satellites

  Saturn is currently known to have 56 moons, many of which were discovered very recently, and 3 additional un-confirmed, hypothetical moons. However, a precise number of moons can never be given, as ... > more
• Moon
  NASA
  Space Missions
  Space Exploration
  Solar System
  Pluto
   
  

  Apollo 11

  Apollo 11 was an American space mission, part of the Apollo program and the first manned mission to land on the Moon.It was the fifth human spaceflight of the Apollo program, and the third human ... > more
• Black Holes
  Sun
  Solar Flare
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Space Missions
  Space Exploration
   
  

  Geomagnetic reversal

  A geomagnetic reversal is a change in the orientation of Earth's magnetic field such that the positions of magnetic north and magnetic south become interchanged. The Earth's magnetic north pole is ... > more
• Space Probes
  Space Exploration
  Space Station
  Vehicles
  Aviation
  Sports Science
   
  

  Multistage rocket

  A multistage (or multi-stage) rocket is, like any rocket, propelled by the recoil pressure of the burning gases it emits as it burns fuel. What characterizes it as "multi-stage" is that it ... > more
• Mathematics
  Computer Modeling
  Mathematical Modeling
  Computational Biology
  Space Station
  NASA
   
  

  Hyperbolic geometry

  In mathematics, hyperbolic geometry is a non-Euclidean geometry, meaning that the parallel postulate of Euclidean geometry is rejected. The parallel postulate in Euclidean geometry states, for two ... > more

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