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651 relations: A Beautiful Planet, ABC News (United States), Academia Sinica, Acoustical engineering, Activated carbon, Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity, Advanced Resistive Exercise Device, Aerosol, Agence France-Presse, Air & Space/Smithsonian, Airbus, Airbus Beluga, Airbus Defence and Space, Airlock, Albedo, Alexander Misurkin, Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, Aluminium, Amateur radio, Amateur Radio on the International Space Station, Ambient noise level, American Society for Microbiology, Ammonia, Androgynous Peripheral Attach System, Angular diameter, Anousheh Ansari, Antenna (radio), Anti-satellite weapon, Antimatter, Apogee Books, Apogee of Fear, Apollo 1, Apparent magnitude, Ars Technica, Artificial gravity, Assembly of the International Space Station, Associated Press, Asteroid, Astrium, Astrobiology, Astronomical transit, Astronomy, Atlas V, Atmosphere of Earth, Atmospheric entry, Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space, Audiology, Aurora, Automated Transfer Vehicle, Axiom Mission 1, ... Expand index (601 more) »
- European Space Agency programmes
- International science experiments
- NASA space stations
- Populated places established in 1998
- Satellites in low Earth orbit
- Science diplomacy
- Space program of Canada
- Space program of Japan
- Space program of Russia
- Space stations
- Spacecraft launched in 1998
A Beautiful Planet
A Beautiful Planet is an IMAX Entertainment documentary produced in collaboration with NASA and filmed aboard the International Space Station by astronaut crews.
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ABC News (United States)
ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC.
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Academia Sinica
Academia Sinica (AS, 3), headquartered in Nangang, Taipei, is the national academy of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
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Acoustical engineering
Acoustical engineering (also known as acoustic engineering) is the branch of engineering dealing with sound and vibration.
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Activated carbon
Activated carbon, also called activated charcoal, is a form of carbon commonly used to filter contaminants from water and air, among many other uses.
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Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity
The Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity (ADUM) project is a U.S. government-funded study investigating strategies for applying diagnostic telemedicine to space.
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Advanced Resistive Exercise Device
The Advanced Resistive Exercise Device (ARED) is an exercise device designed by NASA to allow for more intense workouts in zero gravity.
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Aerosol
An aerosol is a suspension of fine solid particles or liquid droplets in air or another gas.
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Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.
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Air & Space/Smithsonian
Air & Space/Smithsonian is a quarterly magazine published by the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., United States.
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Airbus
Airbus SE is a European multinational aerospace corporation.
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Airbus Beluga
The Airbus A300-600ST (Super Transporter), or Beluga, is a specialised wide-body airliner used to transport aircraft parts and outsize cargoes.
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Airbus Defence and Space
Airbus Defence and Space is a division of Airbus SE.
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Airlock
An airlock is a room or compartment which permits passage between environments of differing atmospheric pressure or composition, while minimizing the changing of pressure or composition between the differing environments.
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Albedo
Albedo is the fraction of sunlight that is diffusely reflected by a body.
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Alexander Misurkin
Alexander Alexanderovich Misurkin (Aлександр Aлександрович Мисуркин) (born 23 September 1977), a major in the Russian Air Force, is a Russian cosmonaut, selected in 2006.
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Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is a particle physics experiment module that is mounted on the International Space Station (ISS).
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Aluminium
Aluminium (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13.
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Amateur radio
Amateur radio, also known as ham radio, is the use of the radio frequency spectrum for purposes of non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, private recreation, radiosport, contesting, and emergency communications.
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Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS), operating in the Amateur-satellite service, is a project sponsored by various entities and carried out by astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station who also have an amateur radio license.
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Ambient noise level
In atmospheric sounding and noise pollution, ambient noise level (sometimes called background noise level, reference sound level, or room noise level) is the background sound pressure level at a given location, normally specified as a reference level to study a new intrusive sound source.
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American Society for Microbiology
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM), originally the Society of American Bacteriologists, is a professional organization for scientists who study viruses, bacteria, fungi, algae, and protozoa as well as other aspects of microbiology.
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Ammonia
Ammonia is an inorganic chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula.
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Androgynous Peripheral Attach System
The terms Androgynous Peripheral Attach System (APAS), Androgynous Peripheral Assembly System (APAS) and Androgynous Peripheral Docking System (APDS) are used interchangeably to describe a Russian family of spacecraft docking mechanisms, and are also sometimes used as generic names for any docking system in that family.
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Angular diameter
The angular diameter, angular size, apparent diameter, or apparent size is an angular distance describing how large a sphere or circle appears from a given point of view.
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Anousheh Ansari
Anousheh Ansari (انوشه انصاری; née Raissyan; born September 12, 1966) is an Iranian American engineer and co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems.
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Antenna (radio)
In radio engineering, an antenna (American English) or aerial (British English) is the interface between radio waves propagating through space and electric currents moving in metal conductors, used with a transmitter or receiver.
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Anti-satellite weapon
Anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) are space weapons designed to incapacitate or destroy satellites for strategic or tactical purposes.
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Antimatter
In modern physics, antimatter is defined as matter composed of the antiparticles (or "partners") of the corresponding particles in "ordinary" matter, and can be thought of as matter with reversed charge, parity, and time, known as CPT reversal.
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Apogee Books
Apogee Books is an imprint of Canadian publishing house Collector's Guide Publishing.
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Apogee of Fear
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Apollo 1
Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was planned to be the first crewed mission of the Apollo program, the American undertaking to land the first man on the Moon.
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Apparent magnitude
Apparent magnitude is a measure of the brightness of a star or other astronomical object.
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Ars Technica
Ars Technica is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998.
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Artificial gravity
Artificial gravity is the creation of an inertial force that mimics the effects of a gravitational force, usually by rotation.
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Assembly of the International Space Station
The process of assembling the International Space Station (ISS) has been under way since the 1990s.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Asteroid
An asteroid is a minor planet—an object that is neither a true planet nor an identified comet— that orbits within the inner Solar System.
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Astrium
Astrium was an aerospace manufacturer subsidiary of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) that provided civil and military space systems and services from 2006 to 2013.
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Astrobiology
Astrobiology is a scientific field within the life and environmental sciences that studies the origins, early evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe by investigating its deterministic conditions and contingent events.
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Astronomical transit
In astronomy, a transit (or astronomical transit) is the passage of a celestial body directly between a larger body and the observer.
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Astronomy
Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos.
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Atlas V
Atlas V is an expendable launch system and the fifth major version in the Atlas launch vehicle family.
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Atmosphere of Earth
The atmosphere of Earth is composed of a layer of gas mixture that surrounds the Earth's planetary surface (both lands and oceans), known collectively as air, with variable quantities of suspended aerosols and particulates (which create weather features such as clouds and hazes), all retained by Earth's gravity.
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Atmospheric entry
Atmospheric entry (sometimes listed as Vimpact or Ventry) is the movement of an object from outer space into and through the gases of an atmosphere of a planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite.
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Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space
Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES) is a project led by the European Space Agency which will place ultra-stable atomic clocks on the International Space Station.
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Audiology
Audiology (from Latin audīre, "to hear"; and from Greek -λογία, -logia) is a branch of science that studies hearing, balance, and related disorders.
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Aurora
An aurora (aurorae or auroras), also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic).
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Automated Transfer Vehicle
The Automated Transfer Vehicle, originally Ariane Transfer Vehicle or ATV, was an expendable cargo spacecraft developed by the European Space Agency (ESA), used for space cargo transport in 2008–2015.
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Axiom Mission 1
Axiom Mission 1 (or Ax-1) was a privately funded and operated crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
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Axiom Mission 2
Axiom Mission 2 (or Ax-2) was a private crewed spaceflight operated by Axiom Space.
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Axiom Mission 4
Axiom Mission 4 (or Ax-4) is a private spaceflight to the International Space Station.
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Axiom Orbital Segment
Axiom Orbital Segment or Axiom Segment (or AxS) are the planned modular components of the International Space Station (ISS) designed by Houston, Texas-based Axiom Space for commercial space activities.
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Axiom Space
Axiom Space, Inc., also known as Axiom Space, is an American privately funded space infrastructure developer headquartered in Houston, Texas.
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Bacteria
Bacteria (bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell.
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Baikonur Cosmodrome
The Baikonur Cosmodrome is a spaceport operated by Russia within Kazakhstan.
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Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 200
Site 200 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome is a launch site used by Proton rockets.
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Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31
Baikonur Site 31, also known as Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, is a launch site used by derivatives of the R-7 Semyorka missile.
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Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 81
Site 81 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome is a launch site used, along with Site 200, by Proton rockets.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
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BBC Online
BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service.
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BBC Science Focus
BBC Science Focus (previously BBC Focus) is a British monthly magazine about science and technology published in Bristol, UK by Immediate Media Company.
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Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.
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Beta angle
In orbital mechanics, the beta angle (\boldsymbol) is the angle between a satellite's orbital plane around Earth and the geocentric position of the Sun.
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Bigelow Aerospace
Bigelow Aerospace was an American space design and manufacturing company which closed its doors in 2020.
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Bigelow Expandable Activity Module
The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) is an experimental expandable space station module developed by Bigelow Aerospace, under contract to NASA, for testing as a temporary module on the International Space Station (ISS) from 2016 to at most 2028, when the contract can not be further extended.
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BioMed Central
BioMed Central (BMC) is a United Kingdom-based, for-profit scientific open access publisher that produces over 250 scientific journals.
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BMC Microbiology
BMC Microbiology is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal that covers microorganisms and various aspects of microbiology.
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Boeing
The Boeing Company (or simply Boeing) is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, and missiles worldwide.
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Boeing Crew Flight Test
Boeing Crew Flight Test (Boe-CFT) is the first crewed mission of the Boeing Starliner capsule.
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Boeing Starliner
The Boeing Starliner (or CST-100) is a class of partially reusable spacecraft designed to transport crew to the International Space Station (ISS) and other low-Earth-orbit destinations. International Space Station and Boeing Starliner are crewed spacecraft.
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Boeing Starliner-1
Boeing Starliner-1, also called Post Certification Mission-1 (PCM-1), is planned to be the first operational crewed mission of the Boeing Starliner to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the Commercial Crew Program.
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Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
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Bremen
Bremen (Low German also: Breem or Bräm), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (Stadtgemeinde Bremen), is the capital of the German state of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (Freie Hansestadt Bremen), a two-city-state consisting of the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven.
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C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy)
Comet Lovejoy, formally designated C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy), is a long-period comet and Kreutz sungrazer.
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Calorimetric Electron Telescope
The CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) is a space telescope being mainly used to perform high precision observations of electrons and gamma rays.
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
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Canadian Space Agency
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA; Agence spatiale canadienne, ASC) is the national space agency of Canada, established in 1990 by the Canadian Space Agency Act. International Space Station and Canadian Space Agency are space program of Canada.
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Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida.
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Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40
Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), sometimes pronounced Slick Forty and previously Launch Complex 40 (LC-40) is a launch pad for rockets located at the north end of Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
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Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 41
Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41), previously Launch Complex 41 (LC-41), is an active launch site at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
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Carbon-fiber reinforced polymer
Carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (American English), carbon-fibre-reinforced polymers (Commonwealth English), carbon-fiber-reinforced plastics, carbon-fiber reinforced-thermoplastic (CFRP, CRP, CFRTP), also known as carbon fiber, carbon composite, or just carbon, are extremely strong and light fiber-reinforced plastics that contain carbon fibers.
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Cataract
A cataract is a cloudy area in the lens of the eye that leads to a decrease in vision of the eye.
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CBS News
CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.
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Cell culture
Cell culture or tissue culture is the process by which cells are grown under controlled conditions, generally outside of their natural environment.
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Center for the Advancement of Science in Space
The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), a non-profit organization, is the manager of the International Space Station United States National Laboratory, a US government-funded laboratory with principal research facilities located in the United States Orbital Segment of the International Space Station (ISS).
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Centrifuge Accommodations Module
The Centrifuge Accommodations Module (CAM) is a cancelled element of the International Space Station (ISS).
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Ceremonial ship launching
Ceremonial ship launching involves the performance of ceremonies associated with the process of transferring a vessel to the water.
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CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (Conseil européen pour la Recherche nucléaire), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. International Space Station and CERN are science diplomacy.
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Charles Bolden
Charles Frank Bolden Jr. (born August 19, 1946) is a former Administrator of NASA, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General, and a former astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions.
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Chemical oxygen generator
A chemical oxygen generator is a device that releases oxygen via a chemical reaction.
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CHIPS and Science Act
The CHIPS and Science Act is a U.S. federal statute enacted by the 117th United States Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on August 9, 2022.
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Chris Hadfield
Chris Austin Hadfield (born August 29, 1959) is a Canadian retired astronaut, engineer, fighter pilot, musician, and writer.
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Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center
NASA's Christopher C. Kraft Jr.
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Christopher Riley
Christopher Riley (born 1967) is a British writer, broadcaster and film maker specialising in the history of science.
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Chromosome
A chromosome is a package of DNA with part or all of the genetic material of an organism.
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Cinematographer
The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the recording of a film, television production, music video or other live-action piece.
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Cirque du Soleil
Cirque du Soleil ("Circus of the Sun" or "Sun Circus") is a Canadian entertainment company and the largest contemporary circus producer in the world.
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Cloud Aerosol Transport System
The Cloud Aerosol Transport System (CATS) was a light detection and ranging remote sensing instrument designed to measure the location, composition and distribution of pollution, dust, smoke, aerosols and other particulates in the atmosphere.
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CNBC
CNBC is an American business news channel owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal.
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CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
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Cognition
Cognition is the "mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".
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Collision avoidance (spacecraft)
Spacecraft collision avoidance is the implementation and study of processes minimizing the chance of orbiting spacecraft inadvertently colliding with other orbiting objects.
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Color temperature
Color temperature is a parameter describing the color of a visible light source by comparing it to the color of light emitted by an idealized opaque, non-reflective body.
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Columbus (ISS module)
Columbus is a science laboratory that is part of the International Space Station (ISS) and is the largest single contribution to the ISS made by the European Space Agency (ESA).
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Columbus Control Centre
The Columbus Control Centre also known by its radio callsign, Mission Control Munich, is the mission control centre which is used to control the ''Columbus'' research laboratory, which is part of the International Space Station (ISS).
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Comet
A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that warms and begins to release gases when passing close to the Sun, a process called outgassing.
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Commercial LEO Destinations program
The Commercial LEO Destinations program (CLD, or Commercial Destinations in Low Earth Orbit, or Commercial low Earth orbit (LEO) Development Program) is a public/private partnership program of the NASA, to help facilitate the building of private commercial space stations (CSSs) in low Earth orbit.
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Commercial off-the-shelf
Commercial-off-the-shelf or commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) products are packaged or canned (ready-made) hardware or software, which are adapted aftermarket to the needs of the purchasing organization, rather than the commissioning of custom-made, or bespoke, solutions.
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Commercial Resupply Services
Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) are a series of flights awarded by NASA for the delivery of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) on commercially operated spacecraft.
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Commercial use of space
Commercial use of space is the provision of goods or services of commercial value by using equipment sent into Earth orbit or outer space.
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Common Berthing Mechanism
The Common Mechanism (CBM) connects habitable elements in the US Orbital Segment (USOS) of the International Space Station (ISS).
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Computer vision
Computer vision tasks include methods for acquiring, processing, analyzing and understanding digital images, and extraction of high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical or symbolic information, e.g. in the forms of decisions.
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Contamination
Contamination is the presence of a constituent, impurity, or some other undesirable element that renders something unsuitable, unfit or harmful for physical body, natural environment, workplace, etc.
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Control moment gyroscope
A control moment gyroscope (CMG) is an attitude control device generally used in spacecraft attitude control systems.
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Coordinated Universal Time
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time.
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Cosmic dust
Cosmic dustalso called extraterrestrial dust, space dust, or star dustis dust that occurs in outer space or has fallen onto Earth.
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Cosmic ray
Cosmic rays or astroparticles are high-energy particles or clusters of particles (primarily represented by protons or atomic nuclei) that move through space at nearly the speed of light.
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CubeSat
A CubeSat is a class of small satellite with a form factor of cubes.
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Cupola (ISS module)
The Cupola is an ESA-built observatory module of the International Space Station (ISS).
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Cygnus (spacecraft)
Cygnus is an expendable American cargo spacecraft used for International Space Station (ISS) logistics missions.
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Cygnus NG-21
NG-21 is the twenty-first planned flight of the Cygnus, an expendable American cargo spacecraft used for International Space Station (ISS) logistics missions, planned to launch on 3 August 2024.
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Daniel C. Burbank
Daniel Christopher Burbank (born July 27, 1961) is a retired American astronaut and a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions.
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Daniel M. Tani
Daniel M. Tani (born February 1, 1961) is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut.
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Dark matter
In astronomy, dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter that appears not to interact with light or the electromagnetic field.
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Data-rate units
In telecommunications, data transfer rate is the average number of bits (bitrate), characters or symbols (baudrate), or data blocks per unit time passing through a communication link in a data-transmission system.
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David Bowie
David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter, musician, and actor.
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David Florida Laboratory
The David Florida Laboratory is the Canadian Space Agency's spacecraft assembly, integration and testing centre, in Shirleys Bay, just west of central Ottawa. International Space Station and David Florida Laboratory are space program of Canada.
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Debian
Debian, also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a Linux distribution composed of free and open-source software and optionally non-free firmware or software developed by the community-supported Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993.
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Deinococcus radiodurans
Deinococcus radiodurans is a bacterium, an extremophile and one of the most radiation-resistant organisms known.
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Denmark
Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.
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Dennis Tito
Dennis Anthony Tito (born August 8, 1940) is an American engineer and entrepreneur.
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Destiny (ISS module)
The Destiny module, also known as the U.S. Lab, is the primary operating facility for U.S. research payloads aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
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Development of the Commercial Crew Program
Development of the Commercial Crew Program (CCDev) began in the second round of the program, which was rescoped from a smaller technology development program for human spaceflight to a competitive development program that would produce the spacecraft to be used to provide crew transportation services to and from the International Space Station (ISS).
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Dextre
Dextre, also known as the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (SPDM), is a two-armed robot, or telemanipulator, which is part of the Mobile Servicing System on the International Space Station (ISS), and does repairs that would otherwise require astronauts to do spacewalks. International Space Station and Dextre are space program of Canada.
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Direct current
Direct current (DC) is one-directional flow of electric charge.
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Dmitry Rogozin
Dmitry Olegovich Rogozin (Дми́трий Оле́гович Рого́зин; born 21 December 1963) is a Russian nationalist politician serving as the senator from the Russian-occupied Zaporozhye Oblast since 23 September 2023.
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DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.
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Docking and berthing of spacecraft
Docking and berthing of spacecraft is the joining of two space vehicles.
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Dome
A dome is an architectural element similar to the hollow upper half of a sphere.
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Douglas H. Wheelock
Douglas Harry "Wheels" Wheelock (born May 5, 1960) is an American engineer and astronaut.
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Earth's magnetic field
Earth's magnetic field, also known as the geomagnetic field, is the magnetic field that extends from Earth's interior out into space, where it interacts with the solar wind, a stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun.
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Earth's shadow
Earth's shadow (or Earth shadow) is the shadow that Earth itself casts through its atmosphere and into outer space, toward the antisolar point.
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ECOSTRESS
ECOSTRESS (Ecosystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station) is an ongoing scientific experiment in which a radiometer mounted on the International Space Station (ISS) measures the temperature of plants growing in specific locations on Earth over the course of a solar year.
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Effect of spaceflight on the human body
The effects of spaceflight on the human body are complex and largely harmful over both short and long term.
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Electric power
Electric power is the rate of transfer of electrical energy within a circuit.
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Electrical system of the International Space Station
The electrical system of the International Space Station is a critical resource for the International Space Station (ISS) because it allows the crew to live comfortably, to safely operate the station, and to perform scientific experiments.
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Electrolysis
In chemistry and manufacturing, electrolysis is a technique that uses direct electric current (DC) to drive an otherwise non-spontaneous chemical reaction.
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Energia (corporation)
PAO S. P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (Raketno-kosmicheskaya korporatsiya "Energiya" im.), also known as RSC Energia (РКК «Энергия», RKK "Energiya"), is a Russian manufacturer of spacecraft and space station components.
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Engineering controls
Engineering controls are strategies designed to protect workers from hazardous conditions by placing a barrier between the worker and the hazard or by removing a hazardous substance through air ventilation.
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Enterobacter
Enterobacter is a genus of common Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped, non-spore-forming bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae.
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Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.
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Environmental hazard
Environmental hazards are those hazards that affect biomes or ecosystems.
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Ephemeris
In astronomy and celestial navigation, an ephemeris (pl. ephemerides) is a book with tables that gives the trajectory of naturally occurring astronomical objects as well as artificial satellites in the sky, i.e., the position (and possibly velocity) over time.
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Euro
The euro (symbol: €; currency code: EUR) is the official currency of 20 of the member states of the European Union.
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European Data Relay System
The European Data Relay System (EDRS) system is a European constellation of GEO satellites that relay information and data between satellites, spacecraft, UAVs, and ground stations.
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European Robotic Arm
The European Robotic Arm (ERA) is a robotic arm that is attached to the Russian Orbital Segment (ROS) of the International Space Station.
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European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA) is a 22-member intergovernmental body devoted to space exploration.
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European Technology Exposure Facility
The European Technology Exposure Facility (EuTEF) was a payload mounted on the exterior of the European ''Columbus'' laboratory, one of the modules of the International Space Station.
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Expedition 1
Expedition 1 was the first long-duration stay on the International Space Station (ISS).
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Expedition 10
Expedition 10 (2004–2005) was the tenth expedition to the International Space Station, using the Soyuz TMA-5, which stayed during the expedition for emergency evacuation.
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Expedition 11
Expedition 11 (2005) was the 11th expedition to the International Space Station, using the Soyuz TMA-6, which stayed during the expedition for emergency evacuation.
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Expedition 16
Expedition 16 was the 16th expedition to the International Space Station (ISS).
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Expedition 19
Expedition 19 was the 19th long-duration flight to the International Space Station.
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Expedition 20
Expedition 20 was the 20th long-duration flight to the International Space Station.
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Expedition 26
Expedition 26 was the 26th long-duration mission to the International Space Station.
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Expedition 27
Expedition 27 was the 27th long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), starting on 16 March 2011.
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Expedition 30
Expedition 30 was the 30th long-duration mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
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Expedition 31
Expedition 31 was the 31st long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS).
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Expedition 32
Expedition 32 was the 32nd long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS).
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Expedition 43
Expedition 43 was the 43rd expedition to the International Space Station.
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Expedition 44
Expedition 44 was the 44th expedition to the International Space Station.
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Expedition 5
Expedition 5 was the fifth long-duration stay on the International Space Station (ISS).
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Expedition 50
Expedition 50 was the 50th expedition to the International Space Station.
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Expedition 51
Expedition 51 (April – June 2017) was the 51st expedition to the International Space Station, which began upon the departure of Soyuz MS-02 on April 10, 2017, and concluded upon the departure of Soyuz MS-03 on June 2, 2017.
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Expedition 52
Expedition 52 (June – September 2017) was the 52nd expedition to the International Space Station.
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Expedition 53
Expedition 53 (September – December 2017) was the 53rd expedition to the International Space Station, which began upon the departure of Soyuz MS-04 on September 2, 2017, and concluded upon the departure of Soyuz MS-05 on December 14, 2017.
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Expedition 71
Expedition 71 is the 71st long-duration expedition to the International Space Station.
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Expedition 8
Expedition 8 was the eighth expedition to the International Space Station.
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Expedition 9
Expedition 9 (2004) was the ninth expedition to the International Space Station (21 April 2004 – 23 October 2004).
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Exploded-view drawing
An exploded-view drawing is a diagram, picture, schematic or technical drawing of an object, that shows the relationship or order of assembly of various parts.
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Exploration Gateway Platform
The Exploration Gateway Platform was a design concept proposed by Boeing in December 2011 to drastically reduce the cost of Moon, near Earth asteroids (NEAs), or Mars missions by using components already designed to construct a refueling depot and servicing station located at one of the Earth–Moon Lagrange points, L1 or L2.
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ExPRESS Logistics Carrier
An EXpedite the PRocessing of Experiments to Space Station (ExPRESS) Logistics Carrier (ELC) is an unpressurized attached payload platform for the International Space Station (ISS) that provides mechanical mounting surfaces, electrical power, and command and data handling services for Orbital Replacement Units (ORUs) as well as science experiments on the ISS.
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External Active Thermal Control System
The International Space Station (ISS) External Active Thermal Control System (EATCS) maintains an equilibrium when the ISS environment or heat loads exceed the capabilities of the Passive Thermal Control System (PTCS).
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External stowage platform
External stowage platforms (ESPs) are key components of the International Space Station (ISS).
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Extra-low voltage
Extra-low voltage (ELV) is an electricity supply voltage and is a part of the low-voltage bandIEC 61140:2016 Chapter 4.2 in a range which carries a low risk of dangerous electrical shock.
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Extravehicular activity
Extravehicular activity (EVA) is any activity done by an astronaut in outer space outside a spacecraft.
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Extremophile
An extremophile is an organism that is able to live (or in some cases thrive) in extreme environments, i.e., environments with conditions approaching or stretching the limits of what known life can adapt to, such as extreme temperature, pressure, radiation, salinity, or pH level.
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Falcon 9 Block 5
Falcon 9 Block 5 is a partially reusable, human-rated, two-stage-to-orbit, medium-lift launch vehicle designed and manufactured in the United States by SpaceX.
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Falcon Heavy
Falcon Heavy is a heavy-lift launch vehicle with partial reusability that can carry cargo into Earth orbit, and beyond.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.
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First Orbit
First Orbit is a 2011 feature-length, experimental documentary film about Vostok 1, the first human space flight around the Earth.
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Fixed-price contract
A fixed-price contract is a type of contract for the supply of goods or services, such that the agreed payment amount will not subsequently be adjusted to reflect the resources used, costs incurred or time expended by the contractor.
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Flickr
Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting service, as well as an online community, founded in Canada and headquartered in the United States.
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Florida
Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
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Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
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Free fall
In classical mechanics, free fall is any motion of a body where gravity is the only force acting upon it.
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Frontiers Media
Frontiers Media SA is a publisher of peer-reviewed, open access, scientific journals currently active in science, technology, and medicine.
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Fungus
A fungus (fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.
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Gagarin's Start
Gagarin's Start (Гагаринский старт, Gagarinskiy start), also known as Baikonur Site 1 or Site 1/5 was a launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan that was used by the Soviet space program and Roscosmos.
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Galley (kitchen)
The galley is the compartment of a ship, train, or aircraft where food is cooked and prepared.
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Gennady Padalka
Gennady Ivanovich Padalka (Гeнна́дий Ива́нович Па́далка; born 21 June 1958 in Krasnodar, Soviet Union) is a Russian Air Force officer and Roscosmos cosmonaut.
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Geocaching
Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called geocaches or caches, at specific locations marked by coordinates all over the world.
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Geostationary orbit
A geostationary orbit, also referred to as a geosynchronous equatorial orbitGeostationary orbit and Geosynchronous (equatorial) orbit are used somewhat interchangeably in sources.
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German Aerospace Center
The German Aerospace Center (e.V., abbreviated DLR, literally German Center for Air- and Space-flight) is the national center for aerospace, energy and transportation research of Germany, founded in 1969.
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German Space Operations Center
The German Space Operations Center (GSOC; Deutsches Raumfahrt-Kontrollzentrum) is the mission control center of German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich, Germany.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
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Gimbal
A gimbal is a pivoted support that permits rotation of an object about an axis.
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Gizmodo
Gizmodo is a design, technology, science, and science fiction website.
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Glenn Research Center
NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field is a NASA center within the cities of Brook Park and Cleveland between Cleveland Hopkins International Airport and the Rocky River Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks, with a subsidiary facility in Sandusky, Ohio.
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Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation
Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI, pronounced) is a NASA mission to measure how deforestation has contributed to atmospheric CO2 concentrations.
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Glossary of nautical terms (A–L)
This glossary of nautical terms is an alphabetical listing of terms and expressions connected with ships, shipping, seamanship and navigation on water (mostly though not necessarily on the sea).
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Government Accountability Office
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent, nonpartisan government agency within the legislative branch that provides auditing, evaluative, and investigative services for the United States Congress.
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Grapple fixture
Grapple fixtures are used on spacecraft or other objects to provide a secure connection for a robotic arm.
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Gravity (2013 film)
Gravity is a 2013 science fiction thriller film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, who also co-wrote, co-edited, and produced the film.
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Gravity-gradient stabilization
Gravity-gradient stabilization or tidal stabilization is a passive method of stabilizing artificial satellites or space tethers in a fixed orientation using only the mass distribution of the orbited body and the gravitational field.
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Guidance, navigation, and control
Guidance, navigation and control (abbreviated GNC, GN&C, or G&C) is a branch of engineering dealing with the design of systems to control the movement of vehicles, especially, automobiles, ships, aircraft, and spacecraft.
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Guy Laliberté
Guy Laliberté, (born 2 September 1959) is a Canadian billionaire businessman, and poker player.
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H-II Transfer Vehicle
The H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV), also called, is an expendable, automated cargo spacecraft used to resupply the ''Kibō'' Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) and the International Space Station (ISS).
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H3 (rocket)
The H3 Launch Vehicle is a Japanese expendable launch system.
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Habitation Module
ISS Habitation module under construction in December 1997 The Habitation Module for the International Space Station was intended to be the Station's main living quarters designed with galley, toilet, shower, sleep stations and medical facilities.
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Harmony (ISS module)
Harmony, also known as Node 2, is the "utility hub" of the International Space Station.
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Hearing
Hearing, or auditory perception, is the ability to perceive sounds through an organ, such as an ear, by detecting vibrations as periodic changes in the pressure of a surrounding medium.
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Hearing loss
Hearing loss is a partial or total inability to hear.
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Hearing protection device
A hearing protection device, also known as a HPD, is an ear protection device worn in or over the ears while exposed to hazardous noise and provide hearing protection to help prevent noise-induced hearing loss.
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Heavens-Above
Heavens-Above is a non-profit website developed and maintained by Chris Peat as Heavens-Above GmbH.
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Height above mean sea level
Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level.
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Hemodynamics
Hemodynamics or haemodynamics are the dynamics of blood flow.
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High Definition Earth Viewing cameras
High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) cameras were a payload package delivered to the International Space Station on the SpaceX CRS-3 Mission, launched on April 18, 2014.
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High voltage
High voltage electricity refers to electrical potential large enough to cause injury or damage.
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Houston
Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.
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HP ZBook
HP ZBook is a brand of mobile workstations made by HP Inc.
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HTV-X
, tentatively called HTV-X, is an uncrewed expendable cargo spacecraft under development by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as the successor of H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV).
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HTV-X1
HTV-X1 is the first flight and the technical demonstration mission of HTV-X, an uncrewed expendable cargo spacecraft.
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Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope (often referred to as HST or Hubble) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation.
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HuffPost
HuffPost (The Huffington Post until 2017; often abbreviated as HuffPo) is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions.
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Human mission to Mars
The idea of sending humans to Mars has been the subject of aerospace engineering and scientific studies since the late 1940s as part of the broader exploration of Mars.
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Human spaceflight
Human spaceflight (also referred to as manned spaceflight or crewed spaceflight) is spaceflight with a crew or passengers aboard a spacecraft, often with the spacecraft being operated directly by the onboard human crew.
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Huntsville, Alabama
Huntsville is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alabama.
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I.S.S. (film)
I.S.S. is a 2023 American science fiction thriller film directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite and written by Nick Shafir.
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Immortality Drive
The Immortality Drive is a large memory device which was taken to the International Space Station in a Soyuz spacecraft on October 12, 2008.
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Immune system
The immune system is a network of biological systems that protects an organism from diseases.
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Immunity (medicine)
In biology, immunity is the state of being insusceptible or resistant to a noxious agent or process, especially a pathogen or infectious disease.
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Inflatable space habitat
Inflatable habitats or expandable habitats are pressurized tent-like structures capable of supporting life in outer space whose internal volume increases after launch. International Space Station and Inflatable space habitat are space stations.
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Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
, or ISAS, is a Japanese national research organization of astrophysics using rockets, astronomical satellites and interplanetary probes which played a major role in Japan's space development.
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Integrated Truss Structure
The Integrated Truss Structure (ITS) of the International Space Station (ISS) consists of a linear arranged sequence of connected trusses on which various unpressurized components are mounted such as logistics carriers, radiators, solar arrays, and other equipment.
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Interim Control Module
The Interim Control Module (ICM) is a NASA-constructed module designed to serve as a temporary "tug" for the International Space Station in case the Zvezda service module was destroyed or not launched for an extended period of time.
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International Docking Adapter
The International Docking Adapter (IDA) is a spacecraft docking system adapter developed to convert APAS-95 to support docking with spacecraft that implement the International Docking System Standard.
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International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station assembled and maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada). International Space Station and International Space Station are Canada–United States relations, crewed spacecraft, European Space Agency programmes, international science experiments, Japan–United States relations, joint ventures, NASA space stations, Populated places established in 1998, Russia–United States relations, satellites in low Earth orbit, science diplomacy, space program of Canada, space program of Japan, space program of Russia, space stations and spacecraft launched in 1998.
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International Space Station programme
The International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the fifteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and utilisation, and responsibilities for crew rotation and resupply of the International Space Station.
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International Standard Payload Rack
The International Standard Payload Rack (ISPR) is a steel framework container that is designed and been adopted by the International Space Station (ISS) program to support efficient integration and interchangeability of space payload hardware, such as machines and experiments.
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Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
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ISS ECLSS
The International Space Station Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) is a life support system that provides or controls atmospheric pressure, fire detection and suppression, oxygen levels, waste management and water supply.
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ISS Propulsion Module
The ISS Propulsion module was proposed as a backup to functions performed by the Zvezda Service Module and Progress spacecraft.
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ISS year-long mission
The ISS year-long mission was an 11-month-long scientific research project aboard the International Space Station, which studied the health effects of long-term spaceflight.
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ISS-RapidScat
ISS-RapidScat was an instrument mounted to the International Space Station ''Columbus'' module that measured wind speeds.
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Italian Space Agency
The Italian Space Agency (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana; ASI) is a government agency established in 1988 to fund, regulate and coordinate space exploration activities in Italy.
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Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
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JAMA Network Open
JAMA Network Open is a monthly open access medical journal published by the American Medical Association covering all aspects of the biomedical sciences.
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
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JAXA
The is the Japanese national air and space agency. International Space Station and JAXA are space program of Japan.
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Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021.
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John Shoffner
John Shoffner (born July 25, 1955) is an American racing driver, investor, and pilot.
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Johnson Space Center
The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) is NASA's center for human spaceflight in Houston, Texas (originally named the Manned Spacecraft Center), where human spaceflight training, research, and flight control are conducted.
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Kaspersky Lab
Kaspersky Lab (translit) is a Russian multinational cybersecurity and anti-virus provider headquartered in Moscow, Russia, and operated by a holding company in the United Kingdom.
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Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country mostly in Central Asia, with a part in Eastern Europe.
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Kennedy Space Center
The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC, originally known as the NASA Launch Operations Center), located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) ten field centers.
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Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39
Launch Complex 39 (LC-39) is a rocket launch site at the John F. Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Florida, United States.
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Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) is the first of Launch Complex 39's three launch pads, located at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida.
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Kevlar
Kevlar (para-aramid) is a strong, heat-resistant synthetic fiber, related to other aramids such as Nomex and Technora.
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Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
The Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center (Государственный космический научно-производственный центр (ГКНПЦ) имени М. В. Хру́ничева in Russian) is a Moscow-based manufacturer of spacecraft and space-launch systems, including the Proton and Rokot rockets, and the Russian modules of Mir and the International Space Station.
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Kibō (ISS module)
The Japanese Experiment Module (JEM), nicknamed, is a Japanese science module for the International Space Station (ISS) developed by JAXA. International Space Station and Kibō (ISS module) are space program of Japan.
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Kinetic energy
In physics, the kinetic energy of an object is the form of energy that it possesses due to its motion.
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Kosmos 1408
Kosmos-1408 (Космос-1408) was an electronic signals intelligence (ELINT) satellite operated by the Soviet Union.
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Ku band
The Ku band is the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum in the microwave range of frequencies from 12 to 18 gigahertz (GHz).
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Kurs (docking navigation system)
Kurs (Ukrainian and lit) is a radio control system (type tomahook, etc.) used by the Soviet and later Russian space program.
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Lagrange point
In celestial mechanics, the Lagrange points (also Lagrangian points or libration points) are points of equilibrium for small-mass objects under the gravitational influence of two massive orbiting bodies.
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Laser
A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation.
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Leonardo (ISS module)
The Leonardo Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM) is a module of the International Space Station.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.
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Life
Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from matter that does not.
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Life (2017 film)
Life is a 2017 American science fiction horror film directed by Daniel Espinosa, written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick and starring an ensemble cast consisting of Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ariyon Bakare, and Olga Dihovichnaya.
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Life-support system
A life-support system is the combination of equipment that allows survival in an environment or situation that would not support that life in its absence.
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Lightning
Lightning is a natural phenomenon formed by electrostatic discharges through the atmosphere between two electrically charged regions, either both in the atmosphere or one in the atmosphere and one on the ground, temporarily neutralizing these in a near-instantaneous release of an average of between 200 megajoules and 7 gigajoules of energy, depending on the type.
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Linux
Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.
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Linux distribution
A Linux distribution (often abbreviated as distro) is an operating system made from a software collection that includes the Linux kernel and often a package management system.
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Lira (ISS)
The Lira system (Лира) is a two-way communication system used between the International Space Station and Mission Control via the Russian ''Luch'' relay satellite constellation including the four first generation Altair satellites and the second generation Gelios satellite.
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List of accidents and incidents involving the International Space Station
This article is a list of accidents and incidents related to the International Space Station (ISS). International Space Station and list of accidents and incidents involving the International Space Station are Canada–United States relations, crewed spacecraft, European Space Agency programmes, international science experiments, Japan–United States relations, joint ventures, NASA space stations, Populated places established in 1998, Russia–United States relations, satellites in low Earth orbit, science diplomacy, space program of Canada, space program of Japan, space program of Russia, space stations and spacecraft launched in 1998.
List of Apollo missions
The Apollo program was a United States human spaceflight program carried out from 1961 to 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moon.
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List of commanders of the International Space Station
This is a chronological list of commanders of the International Space Station.
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List of human spaceflights to the International Space Station
This is a chronological list of spaceflights to the International Space Station (ISS), including long-term ISS crew, short term visitors, replacement/rescue missions and mixed human/cargo missions.
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List of International Space Station expeditions
This is a chronological list of expeditions to the International Space Station (ISS).
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List of International Space Station spacewalks
On the International Space Station (ISS), extravehicular activities are major events in the building and maintaining of the orbital laboratory, and are performed to install new components, re-wire systems, modules, and equipment, and to monitor, install, and retrieve scientific experiments.
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List of life sciences
This list of life sciences comprises the branches of science that involve the scientific study of life – such as microorganisms, plants, and animals including human beings.
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List of Progress missions
This is a list of missions conducted by Progress automated spacecraft.
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List of ship directions
This list of ship directions provides succinct definitions for terms applying to spatial orientation in a marine environment or location on a vessel, such as fore, aft, astern, aboard, or topside.
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List of space stations
These stations have re-entered the atmosphere and disintegrated. International Space Station and List of space stations are space stations.
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List of spacecraft deployed from the International Space Station
This is a list of spacecraft deployed from the International Space Station.
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Lists of most expensive items by category
An index of lists of most expensive things.
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Lithium-ion battery
A lithium-ion or Li-ion battery is a type of rechargeable battery that uses the reversible intercalation of Li+ ions into electronically conducting solids to store energy.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Love (2011 film)
Love is a 2011 American science fiction drama film produced and scored by the alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves.
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Low Earth orbit
A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with a period of 128 minutes or less (making at least 11.25 orbits per day) and an eccentricity less than 0.25.
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Luch (satellite)
The Luch (Луч; lit. Ray) Satellite Data Relay Network (SDRN), also referred to as Altair and Gelios, is a series of geosynchronous Russian relay satellites, used to transmit live TV images, communications and other telemetry from the Soviet/Russian space station Mir, the Russian Orbital Segment (ROS) of the International Space Station and other orbital spacecraft to the Earth, in a manner similar to that of the US Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System.
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Lymphocyte
A lymphocyte is a type of white blood cell (leukocyte) in the immune system of most vertebrates.
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Magnetosphere
In astronomy and planetary science, a magnetosphere is a region of space surrounding an astronomical object in which charged particles are affected by that object's magnetic field.
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Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.
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Mark Kelly
Mark Edward Kelly (born February 21, 1964) is an American politician, former astronaut, and United States Navy Captain who has been the junior United States senator from Arizona since 2020.
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Mark Shuttleworth
Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African and British entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of Canonical, the company behind the development of the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system.
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MARS-500
The MARS-500 mission was a psychosocial isolation experiment conducted between 2007 and 2011 by Russia, the European Space Agency, and China, in preparation for an unspecified future crewed spaceflight to the planet Mars.
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Marshall Space Flight Center
The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), located in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama (Huntsville postal address), is the U.S. government's civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center.
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Materials International Space Station Experiment
The Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) is a series of experiments mounted externally on the International Space Station (ISS) that investigates the effects of long-term exposure of materials to the harsh space environment.
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Materials science
Materials science is an interdisciplinary field of researching and discovering materials.
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MAXI (ISS experiment)
The Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) is an X-ray telescope mounted on the International Space Station since 2009.
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Memorandum of understanding
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) is a type of agreement between two (bilateral) or more (multilateral) parties.
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Meteoroid
A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space.
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Meteorology
Meteorology is a branch of the atmospheric sciences (which include atmospheric chemistry and physics) with a major focus on weather forecasting.
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Michael Foale
Colin Michael Foale (born 6 January 1957) is a British-American astrophysicist and a former NASA astronaut.
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Michael López-Alegría
Michael López-Alegría (born Miguel Eladio López Alegría on May 30, 1958) is an astronaut, test pilot and commercial astronaut with dual nationality, American and Spanish; a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and one International Space Station mission.
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Michoud Assembly Facility
The Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) is an manufacturing complex owned by NASA in New Orleans East, a section of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States.
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Microgravity Science Glovebox
The Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) is a glovebox aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
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Micrometeoroid
A micrometeoroid is a tiny meteoroid: a small particle of rock in space, usually weighing less than a gram.
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Microscopy
Microscopy is the technical field of using microscopes to view objects and areas of objects that cannot be seen with the naked eye (objects that are not within the resolution range of the normal eye).
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Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.
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MIL-STD-1553
MIL-STD-1553 is a military standard published by the United States Department of Defense that defines the mechanical, electrical, and functional characteristics of a serial data bus.
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Militarisation of space
The militarisation of space involves the placement and development of weaponry and military technology in outer space.
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Minor planet
According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is exclusively classified as neither a planet nor a comet.
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Mir Docking Module
The Stykovochnyy Otsek (стыковочный отсек, Docking compartment), GRAU index 316GK, otherwise known as the Mir Docking Module or SO, was the sixth module of the Russian space station Mir, launched in November 1995 aboard the.
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Mir-2
Mir-2 was a Soviet space station project which began in February 1976.
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Mission control center
A mission control center (MCC, sometimes called a flight control center or operations center) is a facility that manages space flights, usually from the point of launch until landing or the end of the mission.
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Mission Elapsed Time
Mission Elapsed Time (MET) is used by NASA during their space missions, most notably during their Space Shuttle missions.
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Mobile Servicing System
The Mobile Servicing System (MSS), is a robotic system on board the International Space Station (ISS). International Space Station and Mobile Servicing System are space program of Canada.
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Molecular diagnostics
Molecular diagnostics is a collection of techniques used to analyze biological markers in the genome and proteome, and how their cells express their genes as proteins, applying molecular biology to medical testing.
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Moscow
Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.
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Multi-Purpose Logistics Module
A Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) is a large pressurized container that was used on Space Shuttle missions to transfer cargo to and from the International Space Station (ISS).
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Munich
Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.
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Muscle atrophy
Muscle atrophy is the loss of skeletal muscle mass.
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Nadir
The nadir is the direction pointing directly below a particular location; that is, it is one of two vertical directions at a specified location, orthogonal to a horizontal flat surface.
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Naked eye
Naked eye, also called bare eye or unaided eye, is the practice of engaging in visual perception unaided by a magnifying, light-collecting optical instrument, such as a telescope or microscope, or eye protection.
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Nanoracks
Nanoracks LLC is a private in-space services company which builds space hardware and in-space repurposing tools.
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Nanoracks Bishop Airlock
The Nanoracks Bishop Airlock is a commercially-funded airlock module launched to the International Space Station on SpaceX CRS-21 on 6 December 2020.
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Nanoracks CubeSat Deployer
The Nanoracks CubeSat Deployer (NRCSD) is a device to deploy CubeSats into orbit from the International Space Station (ISS).
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
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NASA Docking System
The NASA Docking System is NASA's implementation of the International Docking System Standard (IDSS), an international spacecraft docking standard promulgated by the International Space Station Multilateral Coordination Board.
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NASASpaceflight
NASASpaceflight, more often referred to as NSF, is a private aerospace news organization, which operates a YouTube channel, website, and forum, which launched in 2005, as well as various social media channels covering crewed and uncrewed spaceflight and aerospace engineering news.
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National Central University
National Central University (NCU,; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Kwet-li̍p Chung-yong Thài-ho̍k, Wade–Giles: Kuo2 Li4 Chung Yang Ta4 Hsüeh2 or Chung-ta 中大) is a public research university with long-standing traditions of the Republic of China based in Taiwan.
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National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology
National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) is a Taiwanese state owned corporation, formerly part of the Ministry of National Defense's Armaments Bureau, which is active in the development, manufacturing, support, and sustainment of various weapons systems and dual use technologies.
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is the United States federal agency responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related injury and illness.
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National Space Biomedical Research Institute
The National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) was a NASA-funded consortium of institutions studying the health risks related to long-duration spaceflight and developing solutions to reduce those risks.
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National Space Development Agency of Japan
The, or NASDA, was a Japanese national space agency established on October 1, 1969 under the National Space Development Agency Law only for peaceful purposes.
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Nature (journal)
Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.
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Nauka (ISS module)
Nauka (p, litt. Science), also known as the Multipurpose Laboratory Module-Upgrade (MLM-U; Russian: Многоцелевой лабораторный модуль, усоверше́нствованный, or МЛМ-У) or simply Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM), is a module of the International Space Station (ISS).
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NBC News
NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
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Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer
The Neutron Star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER) is a NASA telescope on the International Space Station, designed and dedicated to the study of the extraordinary gravitational, electromagnetic, and nuclear physics environments embodied by neutron stars, exploring the exotic states of matter where density and pressure are higher than in atomic nuclei.
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New Scientist
New Scientist is a popular science magazine covering all aspects of science and technology.
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Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships
Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) is a NASA program using a public-private partnership model that seeks commercial development of deep space exploration capabilities to support more extensive human space flight missions in the Proving Ground around and beyond cislunar space—the space near Earth that extends just beyond the Moon.
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Nickel–hydrogen battery
A nickel–hydrogen battery (NiH2 or Ni–H2) is a rechargeable electrochemical power source based on nickel and hydrogen.
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Night Glider mode
Night Glider mode (or "XVV Night Glider mode") is one of the procedures for orienting the solar arrays on the International Space Station.
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Noise barrier
A noise barrier (also called a soundwall, noise wall, sound berm, sound barrier, or acoustical barrier) is an exterior structure designed to protect inhabitants of sensitive land use areas from noise pollution.
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Noise control
Noise control or noise mitigation is a set of strategies to reduce noise pollution or to reduce the impact of that noise, whether outdoors or indoors.
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Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American multinational aerospace and defense company.
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Nucleic acid sequence
A nucleic acid sequence is a succession of bases within the nucleotides forming alleles within a DNA (using GACT) or RNA (GACU) molecule.
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Oberpfaffenhofen
Oberpfaffenhofen is a village that is part of the municipality of Weßling in the district of Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany.
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Occupational hygiene
Occupational hygiene (United States: industrial hygiene (IH)) is the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, control, and confirmation (ARECC) of protection from risks associated with exposures to hazards in, or arising from, the workplace that may result in injury, illness, impairment, or affect the well-being of workers and members of the community.
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is a regulatory agency of the United States Department of Labor that originally had federal visitorial powers to inspect and examine workplaces.
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Oleg Kononenko
Oleg Dmitriyevich Kononenko (Олег Дмитриевич Кононенко;; born 21 June 1964) is a Russian cosmonaut.
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Operations and Checkout Building
The Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building (O&C) (previously known as the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building) is a historic building on Merritt Island, Florida, United States.
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Orbital inclination
Orbital inclination measures the tilt of an object's orbit around a celestial body.
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Orbital Piloted Assembly and Experiment Complex
The Orbital Piloted Assembly and Experiment Complex (Орбитальный Пилотируемый Сборочно-Экспериментальный Комплекс, Orbital'nyj Pilotirujemyj Sborochno-Eksperimental'nyj Kompleks; ОПСЭК, OPSEK) was a 2009–2017 proposed third-generation Russian modular space station for low Earth orbit. International Space Station and Orbital Piloted Assembly and Experiment Complex are crewed spacecraft and space program of Russia.
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Orbital replacement unit
Orbital replacement units (or on-orbit replaceable unit) (ORUs) are key elements of the International Space Station that can be readily replaced when the unit either passes its design life or fails.
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Orbital station-keeping
In astrodynamics, orbital station-keeping is keeping a spacecraft at a fixed distance from another spacecraft or celestial body.
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Orbiter Boom Sensor System
The Orbiter Boom Sensor System (OBSS) was a 50-foot (15.24 m) boom carried on board NASA's Space Shuttles.
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Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) is a NASA-JPL instrument designed to measure carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere.
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Orlan space suit
Cosmonaut Maksim Surayev next to two Orlan-MK models on the International Space Station Cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov, next to the Orlan-M spacesuit The Orlan space suit (sea eagle) is a series of semi-rigid one-piece space suit models designed and built by NPP Zvezda.
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Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is a systemic skeletal disorder characterized by low bone mass, micro-architectural deterioration of bone tissue leading to more porous bone, and consequent increase in fracture risk.
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Outer space
Outer space (or simply space) is the expanse that exists beyond Earth's atmosphere and between celestial bodies.
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Outer Space Treaty
The Outer Space Treaty, formally the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, is a multilateral treaty that forms the basis of international space law.
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Outline of physical science
Physical science is a branch of natural science that studies non-living systems, in contrast to life science.
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Oxide
An oxide is a chemical compound containing at least one oxygen atom and one other element in its chemical formula.
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Ozone
Ozone (or trioxygen) is an inorganic molecule with the chemical formula.
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Panspermia
Panspermia is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed by space dust, meteoroids, asteroids, comets, and planetoids, as well as by spacecraft carrying unintended contamination by microorganisms,Forward planetary contamination like Tersicoccus phoenicis, that has shown resistance to methods usually used in spacecraft assembly clean rooms: known as directed panspermia.
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Paolo Nespoli
Major Paolo Angelo Nespoli (born 6 April 1957) is an Italian astronaut and engineer of the European Space Agency (ESA).
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Pathogen
In biology, a pathogen (πάθος, "suffering", "passion" and -γενής, "producer of"), in the oldest and broadest sense, is any organism or agent that can produce disease.
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Payload Operations and Integration Center
The Payload Operations and Integration Center, part of the Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC), radio callsign Huntsville, or the Payload Operations Center, is a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) facility located at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Peggy Whitson
Peggy Annette Whitson (born February 9, 1960) is an American biochemistry researcher, and astronaut working for Axiom Space.
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Photovoltaic system
A photovoltaic system, also called a PV system or solar power system, is an electric power system designed to supply usable solar power by means of photovoltaics.
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Physical Review Letters
Physical Review Letters (PRL), established in 1958, is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal that is published 52 times per year by the American Physical Society.
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Physiology
Physiology is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system.
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Pirs (ISS module)
Pirs (Пирс, meaning "pier") – also called Stykovochny Otsek 1 (SO-1; Стыковочный отсек, "docking module") and DC-1 (Docking Compartment 1) – was a Russian module on the International Space Station (ISS).
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Plasma contactor
Plasma contactors are devices used on spacecraft in order to prevent accumulation of electrostatic charge through the expulsion of plasma (often Xenon).
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Poisk (ISS module)
Poisk (Search), also known as the Mini-Research Module 2 (MRM 2), Малый исследовательский модуль 2, or МИМ 2, is a docking module of the International Space Station.
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Polar regions of Earth
The polar regions, also called the frigid zones or polar zones, of Earth are Earth's polar ice caps, the regions of the planet that surround its geographical poles (the North and South Poles), lying within the polar circles.
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Pole of inaccessibility
In geography, a pole of inaccessibility is the farthest (or most difficult to reach) location in a given landmass, sea, or other topographical feature, starting from a given boundary, relative to a given criterion.
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Politico
Politico (stylized in all caps), known originally as The Politico, is an American political digital newspaper company.
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Politics of outer space
The politics of outer space includes space treaties, law in space, international cooperation and conflict in space exploration, international economics, and the hypothetical political impact of any contact with extraterrestrial intelligence.
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Popular Mechanics
Popular Mechanics (often abbreviated as PM or PopMech) is a magazine of popular science and technology, featuring automotive, home, outdoor, electronics, science, do it yourself, and technology topics.
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Porch
A porch (from Old French porche, from Latin porticus "colonnade", from porta "passage") is a room or gallery located in front of an entrance of a building.
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Port and starboard
Port and starboard are nautical terms for watercraft, aircraft and spacecraft, referring respectively to the left and right sides of the vessel, when aboard and facing the bow (front).
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President of the United States
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.
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Pressurized Mating Adapter
A Pressurized Mating Adapter (PMA) is a spacecraft adapter used on the International Space Station (ISS) to convert a Common Berthing Mechanism (CBM) interface to an APAS-95 docking port.
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Prichal (ISS module)
Prichal nodal module also known as Uzlovoy Module or UM (Узловой Модуль "Причал", Nodal Module Berth) is a Russian spacecraft which is part of the International Space Station (ISS).
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Progress (spacecraft)
The Progress (Прогресс) is a Russian expendable cargo spacecraft.
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Progress DC-1
Progress DC-1 (Originally designated Progress SO1) was a modified Progress 11F615A55, Russian production No.
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Progress M-MIM2
Progress M-MIM2 (Прогресс М-МИМ2), or Progress M-MRM2, originally designated Progress M-SO2, was a modified Progress-M 11F615A55, Russian production No.
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Progress M-UM
Progress M-UM, was a specially modified Progress M 11F615A55, Russian production No.303, developed by Roscosmos to deliver the ''Prichal'' module to the Russian Orbital Segment (ROS) of the International Space Station (ISS).
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Progress MS-16
Progress MS-16, Russian production No.
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Progress MS-18
Progress MS-18, Russian production No.
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Progress MS-21
Progress MS-21, Russian production No.451, identified by NASA as Progress 82P, was a Progress spaceflight launched by Roscosmos to resupply the International Space Station (ISS).
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Progress MS-26
Progress MS-26, Russian production No.456, identified by NASA as Progress 87P, is a Progress spaceflight launched by Roscosmos to resupply the International Space Station (ISS).
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Progress MS-27
Progress MS-27, Russian production No.457, identified by NASA as Progress 88P, is a Progress spaceflight launched by Roscosmos to resupply the International Space Station (ISS).
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Project Hail Mary
Project Hail Mary is a 2021 science fiction novel by American novelist Andy Weir.
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Protein crystallization
Protein crystallization is the process of formation of a regular array of individual protein molecules stabilized by crystal contacts.
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Proton
A proton is a stable subatomic particle, symbol, H+, or 1H+ with a positive electric charge of +1 e (elementary charge).
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Proton (rocket family)
Proton (Russian: Протон) (formal designation: UR-500) is an expendable launch system used for both commercial and Russian government space launches.
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Psychological stress
In psychology, stress is a feeling of emotional strain and pressure.
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Psychosocial
The psychosocial approach looks at individuals in the context of the combined influence that psychological factors and the surrounding social environment have on their physical and mental wellness and their ability to function.
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Quest Joint Airlock
The Quest Joint Airlock, previously known as the Joint Airlock Module, is the primary airlock for the International Space Station.
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Radar
Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (ranging), direction (azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site.
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Rassvet (ISS module)
Rassvet (Рассвет; lit. "first light"), also known as the Mini-Research Module 1 (MRM-1; Малый исследовательский модуль, МИМ 1) and formerly known as the Docking Cargo Module (DCM), is a component of the International Space Station (ISS).
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Reaction wheel
A reaction wheel (RW) is used primarily by spacecraft for three-axis attitude control, and does not require rockets or external applicators of torque.
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Remote desktop software
In computing, the term remote desktop refers to a software- or operating system feature that allows a personal computer's desktop environment to be run remotely from one system (usually a PC, but the concept applies equally to a server or a smartphone), while being displayed on a separate client device.
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Remote sensing
Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon without making physical contact with the object, in contrast to in situ or on-site observation.
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Resurs-P No.1
Resurs-P No.1 was a Russian commercial Earth observation satellite capable of acquiring high-resolution imagery (resolution up to 1.0 m).
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Reuters
Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.
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RIA Novosti
RIA Novosti (РИА Новости), sometimes referred to as RIAN or RIA (label), is a Russian state-owned domestic news agency.
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Richard Garriott
Richard Allen Garriott (born 4 July 1961) is a British-born American video game developer, entrepreneur and private astronaut.
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Rigid body
In physics, a rigid body, also known as a rigid object, is a solid body in which deformation is zero or negligible.
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Risk management
Risk management is the identification, evaluation, and prioritization of risks followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities.
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RKA Mission Control Center
The RKA Mission Control CenterRKA (РКА): Russian space agency (Российское космическое агентство, Rossiyskoye kosmicheskoye agentstvo). International Space Station and RKA Mission Control Center are space program of Russia.
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Robert D. Cabana
Robert Donald Cabana (born January 23, 1949) is a former Associate Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and retired NASA astronaut, having flown on four Space Shuttle flights.
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Robotic Refueling Mission
The Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) is a NASA technology demonstration mission with equipment launches in both 2011 and 2013 to increase the technological maturity of in-space rocket propellant transfer technology by testing a wide variety of potential propellant transfer hardware, of both new and existing satellite designs.
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Rocket engine
A rocket engine uses stored rocket propellants as the reaction mass for forming a high-speed propulsive jet of fluid, usually high-temperature gas.
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Roll Out Solar Array
The Roll Out Solar Array (ROSA) and its larger version ISS Roll Out Solar Array (iROSA) are lightweight, flexible power sources for spacecraft designed and developed by Redwire.
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Roscosmos
The State Corporation for Space Activities "Roscosmos" (Государственная корпорация по космической деятельности «Роскосмос»), commonly known simply as Roscosmos (Роскосмос), is a state corporation of the Russian Federation responsible for space flights, cosmonautics programs, and aerospace research. International Space Station and Roscosmos are space program of Russia.
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Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
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Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014.
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Russian Orbital Segment
The Russian Orbital Segment (ROS) is the name given to the components of the International Space Station (ISS) constructed in Russia and operated by the Russian Roscosmos.
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Russian Orbital Service Station
The Russian Orbital Service Station (Российская орбитальная служебная станция, Rossiyskaya orbital'naya sluzhebnaya stantsiya) (ROSS, РОСС) is a proposed Russian orbital space station scheduled to begin construction in 2027.
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Russian Research Module
The Russian Research Module (RM) was to be a Russian component of the International Space Station (ISS) that provided facilities for Russian science experiments and research.
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S band
The S band is a designation by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for a part of the microwave band of the electromagnetic spectrum covering frequencies from 2 to 4 gigahertz (GHz).
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SAE International
SAE International is a global professional association and standards organization based in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Safe-in-Sound Award
The Safe-in-Sound Excellence in Hearing Loss Prevention Award is an occupational health and safety award that was established in 2007 through a partnership between the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the (NHCA).
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SAGE III on ISS
SAGE III on ISS is the fourth generation of a series of NASA Earth-observing instruments, known as the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment.
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Salyut 6
Salyut 6 (Салют-6; lit. Salute 6), DOS-5, was a Soviet orbital space station, the eighth station of the Salyut programme.
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Salyut programme
The Salyut programme (Салют,, meaning "salute" or "fireworks") was the first space station programme, undertaken by the Soviet Union.
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Saratov
Saratov (Саратов) is the largest city and administrative center of Saratov Oblast, Russia, and a major port on the Volga River.
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Satellite flare
Satellite flare, also known as satellite glint, is a satellite pass visible to the naked eye as a brief, bright "flare".
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Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East.
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Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
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Science diplomacy
Science diplomacy describes how scientific exchanges and the cross-border collaboration of scientists and scientific organizations can perform diplomatic functions as part of international relations.
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Science Power Platform
The Science Power Platform (SPP; Научно-Энергетическая Платформа, Sci-Energy Platform, also known by Russian initialism NEP) was a planned Russian element of the International Space Station (ISS) that was intended to be delivered to the ISS by a Russian Proton rocket or Zenit rocket (it was originally designed to be part of Mir-2) but was shifted to launch by Space Shuttle as part as a tradeoff agreement on other parts of the ISS.
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Scott E. Parazynski
Scott Edward Parazynski (born July 28, 1961, in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American physician and a former NASA astronaut.
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Scott Kelly (astronaut)
Scott Joseph Kelly (born February 21, 1964) is an American engineer, retired astronaut, and naval aviator.
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Sergei Krikalev
Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev (Сергей Константинович Крикалёв, also transliterated as Sergei Krikalyov; born 27 August 1958) is a Russian mechanical engineer, former cosmonaut and former head of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.
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Sergey Volkov (cosmonaut)
Sergey Aleksandrovich Volkov (Сергей Александрович Волков; born 1 April 1973) is a retired Russian cosmonaut and engineer.
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Service module
A service module (also known as an equipment module or instrument compartment) is a component of a crewed space capsule containing a variety of support systems used for spacecraft operations.
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Sievert
The sievert (symbol: SvPlease note there are two non-SI units that use the same Sv abbreviation: the sverdrup and svedberg.) is a unit in the International System of Units (SI) intended to represent the stochastic health risk of ionizing radiation, which is defined as the probability of causing radiation-induced cancer and genetic damage.
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Sky
The sky is an unobstructed view upward from the surface of the Earth.
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Sky News
Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel and organisation.
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Skylab
Skylab was the United States' first space station, launched by NASA, occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974. International Space Station and Skylab are crewed spacecraft, NASA space stations and space stations.
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Small satellite
A small satellite, miniaturized satellite, or smallsat is a satellite of low mass and size, usually under.
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Smartphone
A smartphone, often simply called a phone, is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities.
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Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.
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SOLAR (ISS)
SOLAR was an ESA science observatory on the Columbus Laboratory, which is part of the International Space Station.
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Solar eclipse
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of Earth, totally or partially.
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Solar flare
A solar flare is a relatively intense, localized emission of electromagnetic radiation in the Sun's atmosphere.
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Solar panel
A solar panel is a device that converts sunlight into electricity by using photovoltaic (PV) cells.
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Solar wind
The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the Sun's outermost atmospheric layer, the corona.
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Sony Pictures
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Sony Pictures or SPE, and formerly known as Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc.) is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment studio conglomerate that produces, acquires, and distributes filmed entertainment (theatrical motion pictures, television programs, and recorded videos) through multiple platforms.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.
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Soyuz (rocket family)
Soyuz (Союз, meaning "union", GRAU index 11A511) is a family of expendable Russian and Soviet carrier rockets developed by OKB-1 and manufactured by Progress Rocket Space Centre in Samara, Russia.
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Soyuz (spacecraft)
Soyuz is a series of spacecraft which has been in service since the 1960s, having made more than 140 flights. International Space Station and Soyuz (spacecraft) are crewed spacecraft.
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Soyuz MS
The Soyuz MS (GRAU: 11F732A48) is a revision of the Russian spacecraft series Soyuz first launched in 2016. International Space Station and Soyuz MS are crewed spacecraft.
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Soyuz MS-20
Soyuz MS-20 was a Russian Soyuz spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS) on 8–20 December 2021.
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Soyuz MS-22
Soyuz MS-22 was a Russian Soyuz spaceflight to the International Space Station with a crew of three launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 21 September 2022.
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Soyuz MS-23
Soyuz MS-23 was an uncrewed Russian Soyuz spaceflight that launched from Baikonur on 24 February 2023 to the International Space Station to replace the damaged Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft for landing that NASA astronaut Francisco Rubio and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin launched onboard on 21 September 2022 and had a coolant leak on 14 December before returning to Earth uncrewed on 28 March 2023.
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Soyuz MS-25
Soyuz MS-25 is an ongoing Russian crewed Soyuz spaceflight from Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station.
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Soyuz TM-31
Soyuz TM-31 was the first Soyuz spaceflight to dock with the International Space Station (ISS).
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Soyuz TMA-19
Soyuz TMA-19 was a crewed spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS) and is part of the Soyuz programme.
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Soyuz-U
The Soyuz-U launch vehicle was an improved version of the original Soyuz rocket.
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Space Adventures
Space Adventures, Inc. is an American space tourism company founded in 1998 by Eric C. Anderson.
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Space architecture
Space architecture is the theory and practice of designing and building inhabited environments in outer space.
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Space colonization
Space colonization is the use of outer space for colonization, such as permanent habitation, exploitation or territorial claims.
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Space debris
Space debris (also known as space junk, space pollution, space waste, space trash, space garbage, or cosmic debris) are defunct human-made objects in spaceprincipally in Earth orbitwhich no longer serve a useful function.
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Space environment
Space environment is a branch of astronautics, aerospace engineering and space physics that seeks to understand and address conditions existing in space that affect the design and operation of spacecraft.
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Space medicine
Space Medicine is a subspecialty of Emergency Medicine (Fellowship Training Pathway) which evolved from the Aerospace Medicine specialty.
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Space Oddity
"Space Oddity" is a song by the English singer-songwriter David Bowie.
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Space policy of the Barack Obama administration
The space policy of the Barack Obama administration was announced by U.S. President Barack Obama on April 15, 2010, at a major space policy speech at Kennedy Space Center.
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Space rendezvous
A space rendezvous is a set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft, one of which is often a space station, arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance (e.g. within visual contact).
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Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. International Space Station and space Shuttle are crewed spacecraft.
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Space Shuttle Atlantis
Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle designation: OV‑104) is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States. International Space Station and space Shuttle Atlantis are crewed spacecraft.
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Space Shuttle Columbia
Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) was a Space Shuttle orbiter manufactured by Rockwell International and operated by NASA. International Space Station and Space Shuttle Columbia are crewed spacecraft.
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Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
On Saturday, February 1, 2003, Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere over Texas and Louisiana, killing all seven astronauts on board.
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Space Shuttle Discovery
Space Shuttle Discovery (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is a retired American Space Shuttle orbiter. International Space Station and Space Shuttle Discovery are crewed spacecraft.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour
Space Shuttle Endeavour (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-105) is a retired orbiter from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the fifth and final operational Shuttle built. International Space Station and Space Shuttle Endeavour are crewed spacecraft.
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Space station
A space station (or orbital station) is a spacecraft which remains in orbit and hosts humans for extended periods of time. International Space Station and space station are space stations.
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Space Station 3D
Space Station 3D (simply known as Space Station in 2D format) is a 2002 Canadian-American 3D short documentary film about the International Space Station written, produced, edited and directed by Toni Myers.
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Space Station Freedom
Space Station Freedom was a NASA project to construct a permanently crewed Earth-orbiting space station in the 1980s. International Space Station and space Station Freedom are NASA space stations.
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Space Systems Processing Facility
The Space Systems Processing Facility (SSPF), originally the Space Station Processing Facility, is a three-story industrial building at Kennedy Space Center for the manufacture and processing of flight hardware, modules, structural components and solar arrays of the International Space Station, and future space stations and commercial spacecraft.
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Space toilet
A space toilet or zero-gravity toilet is a toilet that can be used in a weightless environment.
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Space Tourists
Space Tourists is a feature-length documentary of the Swiss director Christian Frei.
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Space weather
Space weather is a branch of space physics and aeronomy, or heliophysics, concerned with the varying conditions within the Solar System and its heliosphere.
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Space.com
Space.com is an online publication focused on space exploration, astronomy, skywatching and entertainment, with editorial teams based in the United States and United Kingdom.
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Spacecraft
A spacecraft is a vehicle that is designed to fly and operate in outer space.
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Spacecraft attitude control
Spacecraft attitude control is the process of controlling the orientation of a spacecraft (vehicle or satellite) with respect to an inertial frame of reference or another entity such as the celestial sphere, certain fields, and nearby objects, etc.
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Spacecraft cemetery
The spacecraft cemetery, known more formally as the South Pacific Ocean(ic) Uninhabited Area, is a region in the southern Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand, where spacecraft that have reached the end of their usefulness are routinely crashed.
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Spacecraft thermal control
In spacecraft design, the function of the thermal control system (TCS) is to keep all the spacecraft's component systems within acceptable temperature ranges during all mission phases.
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Spaceflight osteopenia
Spaceflight osteopenia refers to the characteristic bone loss that occurs during spaceflight.
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Spaceflight participant
Spaceflight participant (translit) is the term used by NASA, Roscosmos, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for people who travel into space, but are not professional astronauts.
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SpaceNews
SpaceNews is a print and digital publication that covers business and political news in the space and satellite industry.
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SpaceX
Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, commonly referred to as SpaceX, is an American spacecraft manufacturer, launch service provider and satellite communications company headquartered in Hawthorne, California.
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SpaceX Crew-2
SpaceX Crew-2 was the second operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, and the third overall crewed orbital flight of the Commercial Crew Program.
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SpaceX Crew-8
SpaceX Crew-8 is the eighth crewed operational NASA Commercial Crew flight and the 13th overall crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft.
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SpaceX Crew-9
SpaceX Crew-9 is planned to be the ninth crewed operational NASA Commercial Crew flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft and the 15th overall crewed orbital flight.
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SpaceX CRS-10
SpaceX CRS-10, also known as SpX-10, was a Dragon Commercial Resupply Service mission to the International Space Station (ISS) which launched on 19 February 2017.
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SpaceX CRS-11
SpaceX CRS-11, also known as SpX-11, was a Commercial Resupply Service mission to the International Space Station, launched successfully on 3 June 2017.
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SpaceX CRS-20
SpaceX CRS-20 (CRS-20), also known as SpaceX-20, was a Commercial Resupply Service mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched on 7 March 2020.
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SpaceX CRS-21
SpaceX CRS-21, also known as SpX-21, was a Commercial Resupply Service mission to the International Space Station which launched on 6 December 2020.
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SpaceX CRS-28
SpaceX CRS-28, also known as SpX-28, is a Commercial Resupply Service mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched on 5 June 2023.
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SpaceX CRS-7
SpaceX CRS-7, also known as SpX-7, was a private American Commercial Resupply Service mission to the International Space Station, contracted to NASA, which launched and failed on June 28, 2015.
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SpaceX Dragon
Dragon is a family of spacecraft developed and produced by American private space transportation company SpaceX.
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SpaceX Dragon 2
Dragon 2 is a class of partially reusable spacecraft developed, manufactured, and operated by American space company SpaceX, for flights to the International Space Station (ISS) and private spaceflight missions. International Space Station and spaceX Dragon 2 are crewed spacecraft.
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Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
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Speakerphone
A speakerphone is a telephone with a microphone and loudspeaker provided separately from those in the handset.
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Spectroscopy
Spectroscopy is the field of study that measures and interprets electromagnetic spectra.
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SSC Demo-1
SSC Demo-1, also known as Dream Chaser Demo-1, is the planned first flight of the Sierra Space robotic resupply spacecraft Dream Chaser to the International Space Station (ISS) under the CRS-2 contract with NASA.
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SSVP docking system
Sistema Stykovki i Vnutrennego Perekhoda, SSVP (Система стыковки и внутреннего перехода, System for docking and internal transfer) is a docking standard used by Soviet and Russian spacecraft, sometimes called RDS for Russian Docking System.
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Stainless steel
Stainless steel, also known as inox, corrosion-resistant steel (CRES), and rustless steel, is an alloy of iron that is resistant to rusting and corrosion.
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Strela (crane)
Strela (crane arm) is a class of four Russian-built cargo cranes used during EVAs to move cosmonauts and components around the exterior of the Soviet/Russian space station Mir and the Russian Orbital Segment of the International Space Station.
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STS-105
STS-105 was a mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station, launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, 10 August 2001.
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STS-114
STS-114 was the first "Return to Flight" Space Shuttle mission following the Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' disaster.
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STS-115
STS-115 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by.
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STS-116
STS-116 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle '' Discovery''.
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STS-117
STS-117 (ISS assembly flight 13A) was a Space Shuttle mission flown by Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'', launched from pad 39A of the Kennedy Space Center on June 8, 2007.
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STS-118
STS-118 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by the orbiter Endeavour.
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STS-119
STS-119 (ISS assembly flight 15A) was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) which was flown by Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' during March 2009.
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STS-120
STS-120 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) that launched on October 23, 2007, from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
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STS-122
STS-122 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS), flown by the.
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STS-123
STS-123 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) which was flown by Space Shuttle ''Endeavour''.
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STS-124
STS-124 was a Space Shuttle mission, flown by Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' to the International Space Station.
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STS-126
STS-126 was the one hundred and twenty-fourth NASA Space Shuttle mission, and twenty-second orbital flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour (OV-105) to the International Space Station (ISS).
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STS-127
STS-127 (ISS assembly flight 2J/A) was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
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STS-129
STS-129 (ISS assembly flight ULF3) was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
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STS-130
STS-130 (ISS assembly flight 20A) was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
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STS-132
STS-132 (ISS assembly flight ULF4) was a NASA Space Shuttle mission, during which Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the International Space Station on May 16, 2010.
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STS-133
STS-133 (ISS assembly flight ULF5) was the 133rd mission in NASA's Space Shuttle program; during the mission, Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' docked with the International Space Station.
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STS-134
STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6) was the penultimate mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the 25th and last spaceflight of.
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STS-74
STS-74 was the fourth mission of the US/Russian Shuttle–''Mir'' program, and the second docking of the Space Shuttle with Mir.
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STS-88
STS-88 was the first Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). International Space Station and STS-88 are spacecraft launched in 1998.
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STS-92
STS-92 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle '' Discovery''.
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STS-97
STS-97 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle '' Endeavour''.
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STS-98
STS-98 was a 2001 Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle '' Atlantis''.
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Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.
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Superconductivity
Superconductivity is a set of physical properties observed in certain materials where electrical resistance vanishes and magnetic fields are expelled from the material.
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Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.
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Taipei Times
The Taipei Times is the last surviving English-language print newspaper in Taiwan.
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Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.
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Talgat Musabayev
Talgat Amangeldyuly Musabayev (Талғат Аманкелдіұлы Мұсабаев, Talğat Amankeldıūly Mūsabaev; born 7 January 1951) is a Kazakh politician, test pilot and former cosmonaut who flew on three spaceflights.
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Tanegashima Space Center
The (TNSC) is the largest rocket-launch complex in Japan with a total area of about 9.7 square kilometers.
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Tardigrade
Tardigrades, known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals.
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TASS
The Russian News Agency TASS, or simply TASS, is a Russian state-owned news agency founded in 1904.
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TechCrunch
TechCrunch is an American global online newspaper focusing on topics regarding high-tech and startup companies.
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TechRepublic
TechRepublic is an online trade publication and social community for IT professionals, providing advice on best practices and tools for the needs of IT decision-makers.
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Telemetry
Telemetry is the in situ collection of measurements or other data at remote points and their automatic transmission to receiving equipment (telecommunication) for monitoring.
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Thales Alenia Space
Thales Alenia Space is a joint venture between the French technology corporation Thales Group (67%) and Italian defense conglomerate Leonardo (33%).
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Thales Group
Thales Group is a French multinational company that designs, develops and manufactures electrical systems as well as devices and equipment for the aerospace, defence, transportation and security sectors.
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The Blade (Toledo, Ohio)
The Blade, also known as the Toledo Blade, is a newspaper in Toledo, Ohio, published daily online and printed Thursday and Sunday by Block Communications.
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The Challenge (2023 film)
The Challenge (translit) is a 2023 Russian space drama film co-written and directed by Klim Shipenko.
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The Day After Tomorrow
The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science fiction disaster film conceived, co-written, co-produced, and directed by Roland Emmerich, based on the 1999 book The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, and starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sela Ward, Emmy Rossum, and Ian Holm.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Japan Times
The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Planetary Society
The Planetary Society is an American internationally-active non-governmental nonprofit organization.
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The Register
The Register is a British technology news website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee and John Lettice.
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The Verge
The Verge is an American technology news website headquartered in Lower Manhattan, New York City and operated by Vox Media.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Thermosiphon
Thermosiphon (or thermosyphon) is a method of passive heat exchange, based on natural convection, which circulates a fluid without the necessity of a mechanical pump.
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Thermosphere
The thermosphere is the layer in the Earth's atmosphere directly above the mesosphere and below the exosphere.
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Thrombus
A thrombus (thrombi), colloquially called a blood clot, is the final product of the blood coagulation step in hemostasis.
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Tiangong-1
Tiangong-1 was China's first prototype space station. International Space Station and Tiangong-1 are satellites in low Earth orbit and space stations.
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Tidal force
The tidal force or tide-generating force is a gravitational effect that stretches a body along the line towards and away from the center of mass of another body due to spatial variations in strength in gravitational field from the other body.
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Timothy Creamer
Timothy John "T.
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TKS (spacecraft)
The TKS spacecraft (Транспортный корабль снабжения., Transportnyi Korabl’ Snabzheniia, Transport Supply Spacecraft, GRAU index 11F72) was a Soviet spacecraft conceived in the late 1960s for resupply flights to the military Almaz space station.
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TORU
TORU (rus. Телеоператорный Режим Управления - Teleoperated Mode of (spacecraft) Control) system is a manual docking system of Russian Soyuz and Progress spacecraft that serves as a backup to the automatic Kurs system. International Space Station and TORU are space program of Russia.
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Tracking and data relay satellite
A tracking and data relay satellite (TDRS) is a type of communications satellite that forms part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) used by NASA and other United States government agencies for communications to and from independent "User Platforms" such as satellites, balloons, aircraft, the International Space Station, and remote bases like the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
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Tranquility (ISS module)
Tranquility, also known as Node 3, is a module of the International Space Station (ISS).
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Treadmill with Vibration Isolation Stabilization
The Treadmill with Vibration Isolation Stabilization System, commonly abbreviated as TVIS, is a treadmill for use on board the International Space Station and is designed to allow astronauts to run without vibrating delicate microgravity science experiments in adjacent labs.
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Tsukuba Space Center
The Tsukuba Space Center (TKSC) also known by its radio callsign Tsukuba, is the operations facility and headquarters for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) located in Tsukuba Science City in Ibaraki Prefecture.
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Turin
Turin (Torino) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy.
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Twilight
Twilight is light produced by sunlight scattering in the upper atmosphere, when the Sun is below the horizon, which illuminates the lower atmosphere and the Earth's surface.
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X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.
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Ubuntu
Ubuntu is a Linux distribution derived from Debian and composed mostly of free and open-source software.
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Ultra high frequency
Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one tenth of a meter (one decimeter).
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Uncrewed spaceflights to the International Space Station
Uncrewed spaceflights to the International Space Station (ISS) are made primarily to deliver cargo, however several Russian modules have also docked to the outpost following uncrewed launches.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
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United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United Launch Alliance
United Launch Alliance, LLC (ULA) is an American launch service provider formed in December 2006 as a joint venture between Lockheed Martin Space and Boeing Defense, Space & Security. International Space Station and United Launch Alliance are joint ventures.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
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United Press International
United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.
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United States Department of Justice
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United States.
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United States dollar
The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.
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Unity (ISS module)
The ''Unity'' module as seen in May 2011 The Unity connecting module, also known as Node 1, is the first U.S.-built component of the International Space Station (ISS). International Space Station and Unity (ISS module) are spacecraft launched in 1998.
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Universal Docking Module
The Universal Docking Module (UDM) (Универсальный стыковочный модуль), was a planned Russian docking module for the International Space Station, to be jointly built by RKK Energia and Khrunichev.
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Universe
The universe is all of space and time and their contents.
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Urine diversion
Urine diversion, also called urine separation or source separation, refers to the separate collection of human urine and feces at the point of their production, i.e. at the toilet or urinal.
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US Orbital Segment
The US Orbital Segment (USOS) is the name given to the components of the International Space Station (ISS) constructed and operated by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), European Space Agency (ESA), Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
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US-A
Upravlyaemy Sputnik Aktivnyy (Управляемый Спутник Активный for Controlled Active Satellite), or US-A, also known in the west as Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite or RORSAT (GRAU index 17F16K), was a series of 33 Soviet reconnaissance satellites.
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Valery Ryumin
Valery Victorovich Ryumin (Валерий Викторович Рюмин; 16 August 1939 – 6 June 2022) was a Soviet cosmonaut.
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Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun.
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Vika oxygen generator
Vika or TGK is an oxygen generating system for spaceflight.
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Virtual reality
Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs 3D near-eye displays and pose tracking to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world.
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Voice of Russia
Voice of Russia (r), commonly abbreviated VOR, was the Russian government's international radio broadcasting service from 1993 until 2014, when it was reorganised as Radio Sputnik.
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Volt
The volt (symbol: V) is the unit of electric potential, electric potential difference (voltage), and electromotive force in the International System of Units (SI).
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Voskhod-M
The Voskhod-M (Восход-М) is an audio subsystem on the International Space Station (ISS) designed to provide radio communications between crewmembers and the ground or nearby Soyuz spacecraft.
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Vostok 1
Vostok 1 (Восток, East or Orient 1) was the first spaceflight of the Vostok programme and the first human orbital spaceflight in history.
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Vulcan Centaur
Vulcan Centaur is a heavy-lift launch vehicle created and operated by United Launch Alliance (ULA).
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Weightlessness
Weightlessness is the complete or near-complete absence of the sensation of weight, i.e., zero apparent weight.
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Whipple shield
The Whipple shield or Whipple bumper, invented by Fred Whipple,.
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Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi is a family of wireless network protocols based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by radio waves.
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Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki.
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William Shepherd
William McMichael "Bill" Shepherd (born July 26, 1949), (Capt, USN, Ret.), is an American former Navy SEAL, aerospace, ocean, and mechanical engineer, and NASA astronaut, who served as commander of Expedition 1, the first crew on the International Space Station.
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Windows 10
Windows 10 is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system.
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Windows 2000
Windows 2000 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft and oriented towards businesses.
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Windows 7
Windows 7 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft.
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Windows 95
Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of operating systems.
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Windows XP
Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system.
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Wired (magazine)
Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.
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Wired UK
Wired UK is a bimonthly magazine that reports on the effects of science and technology.
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Wireless LAN
A wireless LAN (WLAN) is a wireless computer network that links two or more devices using wireless communication to form a local area network (LAN) within a limited area such as a home, school, computer laboratory, campus, or office building.
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Wireless network
A wireless network is a computer network that uses wireless data connections between network nodes.
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Wolf Amendment
The Wolf Amendment is a law passed by the United States Congress in 2011, named after then–United States Representative Frank Wolf, that prohibits the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from using government funds to engage in direct, bilateral cooperation with the Chinese government and China-affiliated organizations from its activities without explicit authorization from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S.
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World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.
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World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists.
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Yolki 5
Yolki 5 (Ёлки 5, meaning Christmas Trees 5 or Those Christmas Trees), is a 2016 Russian comedy film, sequel to Yolki 1914.
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Yoshinobu Launch Complex
Yoshinobu Launch Complex (LC-Y) is a rocket launch site at the Tanegashima Space Center on Tanegashima.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
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Yuri Baturin
Yuri Mikhailovich Baturin (Юрий Михайлович Батурин; born 12 June 1949, in Moscow), is a Russian cosmonaut and former politician.
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Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first human to journey into outer space.
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Yury Borisov
Yury Ivanovich Borisov (Юрий Иванович Борисов; born 31 December 1956) is a Russian politician, former military strategist, and mathematician currently serving as Director General of Roscosmos.
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Zarya (ISS module)
Zarya (Dawn), also known as the Functional Cargo Block or FGB (from the Funktsionalno-gruzovoy blok or ФГБ), is the first module of the International Space Station to have been launched. International Space Station and Zarya (ISS module) are spacecraft launched in 1998.
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Zenith
The zenith is an imaginary point directly "above" a particular location, on the celestial sphere.
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Zvezda (ISS module)
Zvezda (Звезда, meaning "star"), ''Salyut'' DOS-8, also known as the Zvezda Service Module, is a module of the International Space Station (ISS).
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2219 aluminium alloy
2219 aluminium alloy is an alloy in the wrought aluminium-copper family (2000 or 2xxx series).
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3D modeling
In 3D computer graphics, 3D modeling is the process of developing a mathematical coordinate-based representation of a surface of an object (inanimate or living) in three dimensions via specialized software by manipulating edges, vertices, and polygons in a simulated 3D space.
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See also
European Space Agency programmes
- Advisory Committee for Earth Observation
- Aurora programme
- Copernicus Programme
- Cosmic Vision
- CryoSat
- ESA PANGAEA
- European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service
- European Programme for Life and Physical Sciences in Space
- European Remote-Sensing Satellite
- European Space Agency Science Programme
- European contribution to the International Space Station
- ExoMars
- Far-infrared Outgoing Radiation Understanding and Monitoring
- Future Launchers Preparatory Programme
- Galileo (satellite navigation)
- International Space Station
- List of European Space Agency programmes and missions
- List of accidents and incidents involving the International Space Station
- Living Planet Programme
- Moonlight Initiative
- Phi Lab
- Programme for Reusable In-orbit Demonstrator in Europe
- Solaris (solar power)
- Space Situational Awareness Programme
International science experiments
- CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso
- Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
- ITER
- International Space Station
- Joint European Torus
- Large Apparatus studying Grand Unification and Neutrino Astrophysics
- Large Hadron Collider
- List of accidents and incidents involving the International Space Station
- MoonLIGHT
NASA space stations
- Crew and Science Airlock Module
- Habitation and Logistics Outpost
- International Space Station
- List of accidents and incidents involving the International Space Station
- Lunar Gateway
- Lunar I-Hab
- Power and Propulsion Element
- Skylab
- Space Station Freedom
Populated places established in 1998
- Addington Highlands
- Adei Ad
- Ahuzat Barak
- Anthem, Arizona
- Anthem, Henderson
- Asphodel–Norwood
- Bandar Tasik Puteri
- Boody, Illinois
- Brukhin
- Cambourne
- Carolina Shores, North Carolina
- Cheongnyeongnopo-dong
- City of Albany
- City of Joondalup
- Colniza
- Givat Harel
- International Space Station
- List of accidents and incidents involving the International Space Station
- Mário Quintana, Rio Grande do Sul
- Mitzpe Dani
- Mitzpe Yair
- Naracoorte Lucindale Council
- Nepabunna, South Australia
- Old Bank District, Los Angeles
- Otonabee–South Monaghan
- Perth South, Ontario
- Rideau Lakes
- South Stormont
Satellites in low Earth orbit
- 1KUNS-PF
- ASTRO (satellite)
- Bhaskara (satellites)
- CICERO-6
- EOS SAT-1
- Envisat
- Essaim (satellite)
- GASPACS
- GEOS-3
- Geosat
- Globalstar
- HealthNet
- International Space Station
- Iridium satellite constellation
- Kanopus-V-IK
- Kosmos 2524
- List of accidents and incidents involving the International Space Station
- Mohammed VI (satellites)
- NanoACE
- OPTSAT-3000
- Paz (satellite)
- Rohini Satellite 1
- Sfera (satellite constellation)
- TIROS-1
- Tiangong-1
- Tiangong-2
- Tiankun-1
- Transit (satellite)
Science diplomacy
- Alexandra Phelan
- Atoms for Peace
- Baruch Plan
- CERN
- ITER
- International Space Station
- List of accidents and incidents involving the International Space Station
- Mohammed Mostajo-Radji
- Paris Agreement
- Rebecca Katz
- Science & Diplomacy
- Science attaché
- Science diplomacy
- Science diplomacy and pandemics
- Space diplomacy
- Water scarcity in the United States
Space program of Canada
- Alpha particle X-ray spectrometer
- Black Brant (rocket)
- CASSIOPE
- CASTOR (spacecraft)
- CSA Scientific Research on the International Space Station
- Canadarm
- Canadian Advanced Nanospace eXperiment Program
- Canadian Astronaut Corps
- Canadian Space Agency
- Canadian astronauts
- Churchill Rocket Research Range
- David Florida Laboratory
- Dextre
- Fine Guidance Sensor and Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph
- Gatineau Satellite Station
- International Space Station
- James Webb Space Telescope
- John H. Chapman Space Centre
- John Herbert Chapman
- Larkin Kerwin
- Launch and commissioning of the James Webb Space Telescope
- List of accidents and incidents involving the International Space Station
- Mobile Servicing System
- Nicole Buckley
- Paul Marmet
- Space Infrastructure Servicing
- Telesat
- TriDAR
Space program of Japan
- ATREX
- Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics
- Birds-1
- Birds-2
- Fuji (spacecraft)
- HERACLES (spacecraft)
- HOPE-X
- Hakuto-R Mission 2
- Hideo Shima
- Information Gathering Satellite
- International Space Station
- Interstellar Technologies
- JAXA
- JSAT (satellite constellation)
- JSAT Corporation
- Japan Space Systems
- Japan Spaceguard Association
- Japanese Lunar Exploration Program
- Japanese Space Station Module (Mitsui)
- Japanese names on the moon craters
- Japanese space program
- Kibo (ISS module)
- Kibō (ISS module)
- List of accidents and incidents involving the International Space Station
- National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
- PHL-Microsat
- Pencil Rocket
- Philippine Scientific Earth Observation Microsatellite program
- Quasi-Zenith Satellite System
- STAMINA4Space program
- Space One
Space program of Russia
- ADRON-RM
- Cosmonautics Day
- Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons
- GLONASS
- Information display systems
- Infrared Spectrometer for ExoMars
- International Space Station
- Kometa
- List of accidents and incidents involving the International Space Station
- Lunar Orbital Station
- Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration"
- National Space Centre (Moscow)
- Orbital Piloted Assembly and Experiment Complex
- Orbital Technologies Commercial Space Station
- Parom
- Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation
- RKA Mission Control Center
- Roscosmos
- Russian Aerospace Forces
- Russian Space Forces
- Russian names in space
- Selenokhod
- Soviet Deep Space Network
- Space industry of Russia
- Suffa RT-70 radio telescope
- TGK PG
- TORU
- TV Roskosmos
- Yevpatoria RT-70 radio telescope
Space stations
- Artemis 4
- Artemis 5
- DOS-2
- Gateway Spaceport
- Genesis I
- Genesis II (space habitat)
- Inflatable space habitat
- International Space Station
- Large Integrated Flexible Environment
- List of accidents and incidents involving the International Space Station
- List of commercial space stations
- List of space stations
- List of space stations by country
- Mir
- Salyut program
- Skylab
- Skylab program
- Space habitats
- Space station
- Tiangong program
- Tiangong space station
- Tiangong-1
- Tiangong-2
Spacecraft launched in 1998
- AMC-5
- AfriStar
- Astra 2A
- BSAT-1b
- Deep Space 1
- EchoStar IV
- Eutelsat 16B
- Intelsat 6B
- Intelsat 7
- Intelsat 8
- Intelsat 805
- International Space Station
- Kosmos 2350
- Kosmos 2351
- Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1
- List of accidents and incidents involving the International Space Station
- Lunar Prospector
- Mars Climate Orbiter
- MightySat-1
- NOAA-15
- NSS-806
- Nilesat 101
- Nozomi (spacecraft)
- PANSAT
- Progress M-38
- Progress M-39
- Progress M-40
- SEDSAT-1
- ST-1
- STEX
- STS-88
- STS-89
- STS-90
- STS-91
- STS-95
- Satélite de Coleta de Dados
- Soyuz TM-27
- Soyuz TM-28
- Sputnik 41
- Student Nitric Oxide Explorer
- Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite
- TRACE
- Tubsat-N
- Unity (ISS module)
- Zarya (ISS module)
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