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• Space Station
  NASA
  Space Exploration
  Space Probes
  Space Missions
  Astronomy
   
  

  Space Shuttle program

  NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called Space Transportation System (STS), is the United States government's only manned launch vehicle currently in service. It is the first winged manned spacecraft ... > more
• NASA
  Space Exploration
  Space Missions
  Astronomy
  Cosmology
  Astrophysics
   
  

  Carl Sagan

  Dr Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 - December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrobiologist and highly successful science popularizer. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for ... > more
• Solar System
  Neptune
  Pluto
  Moon
  Jupiter
  Satellites
   
  

  Neptune's natural satellites

  Neptune has 13 known moons. The largest by far is Triton, discovered by William Lassell just 17 days after the discovery of Neptune itself. It took a hundred years to discover the second, Nereid. ... > more
• Moon
  NASA
  Space Missions
  Space Exploration
  Solar System
  Astronomy
   
  

  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
• Space Probes
  Space Station
  Space Exploration
  NASA
  Astronomy
  Space Missions
   
  

  Solid-fuel rocket

  A solid rocket or a solid fuel rocket is a rocket with a motor that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer). The earliest rockets were solid fuelled, powered by gunpowder, used by the Chinese in ... > more
• Satellites
  Sports Science
  NASA
  Technology
  Acoustics
  Electronics
   
  

  Satellite television

  Satellite television is television delivered by way of communications satellites, as compared to conventional terrestrial television and cable ... > more
• Space Probes
  Aviation
  Vehicles
  Space Exploration
  Space Station
  Sports Science
   
  

  Rocket

  The traditional definition of a rocket is a vehicle, missile or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving fluid from within a rocket engine. There are many ... > more
• Space Station
  Space Missions
  ESA
  Space Exploration
  NASA
  Space Probes
   
  

  European Space Agency

  The European Space Agency (ESA), established in 1975, is an inter-governmental organisation dedicated to exploration of space with currently 17 member states. ESA has ambitious space plans that may ... > more
• Mathematics
  Computer Graphics
  Math Puzzles
  Mathematical Modeling
  Computer Modeling
  Computer Programming
   
  

  Ellipse

  In mathematics, an ellipse is a plane algebraic curve where the sum of the distances from any point on the curve to two fixed points is constant. An ellipse can be drawn with two pins, a loop of ... > more
• 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

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