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79 relations: Academy of Model Aeronautics, Aeronautics, Aerospace engineering, Air Command and Staff College, Air Education and Training Command, Air Force Association, Air War College, Ansari X Prize, Arizona, Armstrong Flight Research Center, Association of Space Explorers, Astronaut, Bachelor of Science, California, California Institute of Technology, Colonel, Colonel (United States), Commendation Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross (United States), Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America), Edwards Air Force Base, Flight envelope, Flight instructor, General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark, Green Lantern (film), Idaho, International Space Station, Kennedy Space Center, Master's degree, Meritorious Service Medal (United States), Michigan, Mir, Mojave Air and Space Port, Mount Clemens, Michigan, Mountain Home Air Force Base, NASA, NASA Exceptional Service Medal, NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, NASA Space Flight Medal, National Eagle Scout Association, National Science Foundation, National Test Pilot School, Oblivion (2013 film), Orbit Award, Patuxent River, Pilot certification in the United States, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, RAF Lakenheath, ..., Robert Picardo, Rocket Racing League, Sally Ride EarthKAM, Shannon Lucid, Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory, Society of Experimental Test Pilots, Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle Columbia, Spacelab, SpaceShipOne, Squadron Officer School, Star Trek, STS-58, STS-76, STS-90, Tactical Air Command, Test pilot, Trek Nation, U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, United States Air Force, United States Air Force Academy, United States Naval Test Pilot School, USAF Weapons School, Volkswagen, Volkswagen Beetle, Weapon systems officer, Williams Air Force Base, XCOR Aerospace, XCOR EZ-Rocket. Expand index (29 more) »
Academy of Model Aeronautics
The Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA), based in Muncie, Indiana, USA at, is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of model aviation as a recognized sport as well as a recreational activity.
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Aeronautics
Aeronautics (from the ancient Greek words ὰήρ āēr, which means "air", and ναυτική nautikē which means "navigation", i.e. "navigation into the air") is the science or art involved with the study, design, and manufacturing of air flight capable machines, and the techniques of operating aircraft and rockets within the atmosphere.
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Aerospace engineering
Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft.
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Air Command and Staff College
The Air Command and Staff College (ACSC) is located at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama and is the United States Air Force's intermediate-level Professional Military Education (PME) school.
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Air Education and Training Command
Air Education and Training Command (AETC) was established 1 July 1993, with the realignment of Air Training Command and Air University.
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Air Force Association
The Air Force Association (AFA) is an independent, 501(c)(3) non-profit, professional military and aerospace education association that promotes American aerospace power.
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Air War College
The Air War College (AWC) is the senior professional military education school of the U.S. Air Force.
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Ansari X Prize
The Ansari X Prize was a space competition in which the X Prize Foundation offered a US$10,000,000 prize for the first non-government organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks.
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Arizona
Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a U.S. state in the southwestern region of the United States.
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Armstrong Flight Research Center
The NASA, Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) is an aeronautical research center operated by NASA.
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Association of Space Explorers
The Association of Space Explorers is a non-profit organization with a membership composed of people who have completed at least one Earth orbit in space (above, as defined by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. It was founded in 1985, and its current membership stands at over 400 from 47 different countries. The organization provides a forum for the promotion of space exploration, as well as space science and engineering and environmental awareness.
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Astronaut
An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.
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Bachelor of Science
A Bachelor of Science (Latin Baccalaureus Scientiae, B.S., BS, B.Sc., BSc, or B.Sc; or, less commonly, S.B., SB, or Sc.B., from the equivalent Latin Scientiae Baccalaureus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years, or a person holding such a degree.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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California Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology (abbreviated Caltech)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; other spellings such as.
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Colonel
Colonel ("kernel", abbreviated Col., Col or COL) is a senior military officer rank below the brigadier and general officer ranks.
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Colonel (United States)
In the United States Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force, colonel is the most senior field grade military officer rank, immediately above the rank of lieutenant colonel and immediately below the rank of brigadier general.
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Commendation Medal
The Commendation Medal is a mid-level United States military decoration which is presented for sustained acts of heroism or meritorious service.
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Defense Meritorious Service Medal
The Defense Meritorious Service Medal (DMSM) is an award bestowed upon members of the United States military by the United States Department of Defense.
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Defense Superior Service Medal
The Defense Superior Service Medal (DSSM) is a senior American military decoration of the Department of Defense, awarded to members of the United States Armed Forces who perform "superior meritorious service in a position of significant responsibility".
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Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)
The Distinguished Flying Cross is a military decoration awarded to any officer or enlisted member of the United States Armed Forces who distinguishes himself or herself in support of operations by "heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight, subsequent to November 11, 1918.".
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Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America)
Eagle Scout is the highest achievement or rank attainable in the Boy Scouting program of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).
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Edwards Air Force Base
Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force installation located in Kern County in southern California, about northeast of Lancaster and east of Rosamond.
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Flight envelope
In aerodynamics, the flight envelope, service envelope, or performance envelope of an aircraft or interplanetary spacecraft refers to the capabilities of a design in terms of airspeed and load factor or atmospheric density, often simplified to altitude for Earth-borne aircraft.
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Flight instructor
A flight instructor is a person who teaches others to fly aircraft.
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General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark
The General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark was a supersonic, medium-range interdictor and tactical attack aircraft that also filled the roles of strategic nuclear bomber, aerial reconnaissance, and electronic-warfare aircraft in its various versions.
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Green Lantern (film)
Green Lantern is a 2011 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name.
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Idaho
Idaho is a state in the northwestern region of the United States.
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International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit.
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Kennedy Space Center
The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is one of ten National Aeronautics and Space Administration field centers.
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Master's degree
A master's degree (from Latin magister) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.
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Meritorious Service Medal (United States)
The Meritorious Service Medal (MSM) is a military award presented to members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguished themselves by outstanding meritorious achievement or service to the United States subsequent to January 16, 1969.
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Michigan
Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.
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Mir
Mir (Мир,; lit. peace or world) was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, operated by the Soviet Union and later by Russia.
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Mojave Air and Space Port
The Mojave Air and Space Port, also known as the Civilian Aerospace Test Center, is located in Mojave, California, at an elevation of.
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Mount Clemens, Michigan
Mount Clemens is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Mountain Home Air Force Base
Mountain Home Air Force Base is a United States Air Force installation in the western United States.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.
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NASA Exceptional Service Medal
The NASA Exceptional Service Medal is an award granted to U.S. government employees for significant sustained performance characterized by unusual initiative or creative ability that clearly demonstrates substantial improvement in engineering, aeronautics, space flight, administration, support, or space-related endeavors which contribute to NASA programs.
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NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal
The NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal is awarded to US government employees only for notably outstanding leadership which affects technical or administrative programs of NASA.
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NASA Space Flight Medal
The NASA Space Flight Medal is a decoration of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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National Eagle Scout Association
The National Eagle Scout Association (NESA, pronounced nee sah) is an organization of men who have earned the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America.
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National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.
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National Test Pilot School
The National Test Pilot School (NTPS) is the only civilian test pilot school in the United States, located in Mojave, California.
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Oblivion (2013 film)
Oblivion is a 2013 American post-apocalyptic science fiction film based on Joseph Kosinski's unpublished graphic novel of the same name.
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Orbit Award
The Orbit Awards were given by the National Space Society and the Space Tourism Society to pioneers in the private space travel industry, and presented at the Annual International Space Development Conference The actual award is a holographic crystal created by international artist, Eileen Borgeson and holography pioneer, Jeff Allen.
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Patuxent River
The Patuxent River is a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay in the state of Maryland.
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Pilot certification in the United States
Pilot certification in the United States is typically required for an individual to act as a pilot-in-command of an aircraft.
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Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Portsmouth is a city in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, in the United States.
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RAF Lakenheath
Royal Air Force Lakenheath or RAF Lakenheath is a Royal Air Force station near the town of Lakenheath in Suffolk, England, north-east of Mildenhall and west of Thetford.
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Robert Picardo
Robert Picardo (born October 27, 1953) is an American actor.
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Rocket Racing League
The Rocket Racing League was a racing league that planned to use rocket-powered aircraft to race a closed-circuit air racetrack.
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Sally Ride EarthKAM
Sally Ride EarthKAM (Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students) is a NASA educational outreach program started in 1996.
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Shannon Lucid
Shannon Matilda Wells Lucid (born January 14, 1943) is an American biochemist and a retired NASA astronaut.
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Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory
The Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL) was a facility at Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
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Society of Experimental Test Pilots
The Society of Experimental Test Pilots is an international organization that seeks to promote air safety and contributes to aeronautical advancement by promoting sound aeronautical design and development; interchanging ideas, thoughts and suggestions of the members, assisting in the professional development of experimental pilots, and providing scholarships and aid to members and the families of deceased members.
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Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as part of the Space Shuttle program.
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Space Shuttle Columbia
Space Shuttle Columbia (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-102) was the first space-rated orbiter in NASA's Space Shuttle fleet.
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Spacelab
Spacelab was a reusable laboratory used on certain spaceflights flown by the Space Shuttle.
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SpaceShipOne
SpaceShipOne is an experimental air-launched rocket-powered aircraft with sub-orbital spaceflight capability at speeds of up to 900 m/s (3,000 ft/s), using a hybrid rocket motor.
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Squadron Officer School
Squadron Officer School (SOS), is a 6.5-week-long Professional Military Education (PME) course for U.S. Air Force Captains, Department of the Air Force Civilian (DAFC) equivalents and International Officers.
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Star Trek
Star Trek is an American media franchise based on the science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry.
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STS-58
STS-58 was a mission flown by Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 18 October 1993.
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STS-76
STS-76 was NASA's 76th Space Shuttle mission, and the 16th mission for ''Atlantis''.
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STS-90
STS-90 was a 1998 Space Shuttle mission flown by the Space Shuttle ''Columbia''.
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Tactical Air Command
Tactical Air Command (TAC) is an inactive United States Air Force organization.
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Test pilot
A test pilot is an aviator who flies new and modified aircraft in specific maneuvers, known as flight test techniques or FTTs, allowing the results to be measured and the design to be evaluated.
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Trek Nation
Trek Nation is a 2011 documentary film directed by Scott Colthorp examining the positive impact that Star Trek and creator Gene Roddenberry may have had on people's lives as seen through the eyes of his son, Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry, Jr..
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U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School
The U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School (USAF TPS) is the Air Force's advanced flight training school that trains experimental test pilots, flight test engineers, and flight test navigators to carry out tests and evaluations of new aerospace weapon systems and also other aircraft of the U.S. Air Force.
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United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial and space warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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United States Air Force Academy
The United States Air Force Academy (also known as USAFA, the Air Force Academy, or the Academy), is a military academy for officer cadets of the United States Air Force.
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United States Naval Test Pilot School
The United States Naval Test Pilot School (USNTPS), located at Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River in Patuxent River, Maryland, provides instruction to experienced United States Navy, Marine Corps, Army, Air Force, and foreign military experimental test pilots, flight test engineers, and flight test flight officers in the processes and techniques of aircraft and systems testing and evaluation.
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USAF Weapons School
The USAF Weapons School is a unit of the United States Air Force, assigned to the 57th Wing.
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Volkswagen
Volkswagen, shortened to VW, is a German automaker founded on 28 May 1937 by the German Labour Front under Adolf Hitler and headquartered in Wolfsburg.
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Volkswagen Beetle
The Volkswagen Beetle – officially the Volkswagen Type 1, informally in German the Käfer (literally "beetle"), in parts of the English-speaking world the Bug, and known by many other nicknames in other languages – is a two-door, rear-engine economy car, intended for five passengers, that was manufactured and marketed by German automaker Volkswagen (VW) from 1938 until 2003.
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Weapon systems officer
A Weapon Systems Officer ("WSO", pronounced "wizzo") is an air flight officer directly involved in all air operations and weapon systems of a military aircraft.
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Williams Air Force Base
Williams Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force (USAF) base, located in Maricopa County, Arizona east of Chandler, and about southeast of Phoenix.
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XCOR Aerospace
XCOR Aerospace was an American private spaceflight and rocket engine development company based at the Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, California, Midland International Air and Spaceport in Midland, Texas and the Amsterdam area, the Netherlands.
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XCOR EZ-Rocket
The XCOR EZ-Rocket is a test platform for the XCOR rocket propulsion system.
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