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87 relations: Air University (United States Air Force), Alan Shepard, Apollo 13 (film), Ariane 4, Barbara Barrett, Bedabrata Pain, Bernard Adolph Schriever, Bigelow Aerospace, Black & Decker, Boeing X-37, Bruce E. Melnick, Buzz Aldrin, Colorado Springs, Colorado, David Margolese, Delaware North, Digital image processing, DigitalGlobe, Douglas Morrow, Edward C. Aldridge Jr., Eileen Collins, Elon Musk, Eric Fossum, Ethan Bortnick, Gene Kranz, GeoEye, Global Positioning System, Guion Bluford, Gus Grissom, Hans Mark, Hubble Space Telescope, International Cospas-Sarsat Programme, Jack Swigert, Jaleh Daie, James Cameron, James E. Hill, James T. Kirk, JAXA, Jay Barbree, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Jim Banke, Jim Lovell, John Young (astronaut), LCROSS, Leonard Nimoy, Leroy Chiao, List of Women in Technology International Hall of Fame inductees, Majel Barrett, Michael D. Griffin, NASA Social, NASA spinoff technologies, ..., Nastran, National Space Council, Neil Armstrong, Neil deGrasse Tyson, NewSpace, Norman R. Augustine, Outlast Technologies, Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space, Peter Diamandis, Piers Sellers, Radiant barrier, Robert Briskman, Robert Smith Walker, Rogallo wing, Sally Ride, Satellite radio, Science On a Sphere, Scott Carpenter Space Analog Station, Sea Launch, Shenzhou 7, Simon Ramo, Space advocacy, Space Symposium, SpaceNews, SpaceShipOne, STS-95, Télécoms Sans Frontières, Tempur-Pedic, The Space Report, Thomas S. Moorman Jr., Tom Hanks, Umpqua Research Company, University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences, Wanda Austin, X Prize Foundation, X-1R, Yuri Gagarin. Expand index (37 more) »
Air University (United States Air Force)
The Air University (AU), headquartered at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, is a key component of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC), and is the U.S. Air Force's center for professional military education (PME).
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Alan Shepard
Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman.
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Apollo 13 (film)
Apollo 13 is a 1995 American space docudrama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, and Ed Harris.
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Ariane 4
The Ariane 4 was an expendable launch system, designed by the Centre national d'études spatiales while being manufactured and marketed by its subsidiary Arianespace.
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Barbara Barrett
Barbara Barrett (born December 26, 1950) is an American businesswoman and diplomat.
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Bedabrata Pain
Bedabrata Pain (বেদব্রত পাইন; born 27 March 1963) is an Indian scientist turned film director, producer and screenwriter.
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Bernard Adolph Schriever
General Bernard Adolph Schriever (September 14, 1910 – June 20, 2005), also known as Bennie Schriever, was a United States Air Force general.
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Bigelow Aerospace
Bigelow Aerospace is an American space technology startup company based in North Las Vegas, Nevada, that manufactures and develops expandable space station modules.
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Black & Decker
Black & Decker Corporation was the name of an American manufacturer of power tools, accessories, hardware, home improvement products and technology based fastening systems headquartered in Towson, Maryland.
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Boeing X-37
The Boeing X-37, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), is a reusable uncrewed spacecraft.
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Bruce E. Melnick
Bruce Edward Melnick (born December 5, 1949) is a former American astronaut and retired United States Coast Guard officer.
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Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American engineer, former astronaut, and Command Pilot in the United States Air Force.
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Colorado Springs, Colorado
Colorado Springs is a home rule municipality that is the largest city by area in Colorado as well as the county seat and the most populous municipality of El Paso County, Colorado, United States.
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David Margolese
David Margolese (born October 24, 1957) is an entrepreneur and a founder of Sirius XM Radio, serving as chairman and CEO from 1993 to 2002.
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Delaware North
Delaware North is a global food service and hospitality company headquartered in Buffalo, New York.
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Digital image processing
In computer science, Digital image processing is the use of computer algorithms to perform image processing on digital images.
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DigitalGlobe
DigitalGlobe is an American commercial vendor of space imagery and geospatial content, and operator of civilian remote sensing spacecraft.
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Douglas Morrow
Douglas Morrow (September 13, 1913 – September 9, 1994) was a Hollywood screenwriter and film producer.
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Edward C. Aldridge Jr.
Edward "Pete" Cleveland Aldridge Jr. (born August 18, 1938) has served in many top U.S. Defense Department and defense industry jobs, including as Under Secretary of the Air Force from 1981–1986, Director of the National Reconnaissance Office 1981-1988,Laurie, Clayton.
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Eileen Collins
Eileen Marie Collins (born November 19, 1956) is a retired NASA astronaut and a retired United States Air Force colonel.
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Elon Musk
Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is an American business magnate, investor and engineer.
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Eric Fossum
Eric R. Fossum (born October 17, 1957) is an American physicist and engineer known for developing the CMOS image sensor.
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Ethan Bortnick
Ethan Jordan Bortnick (born December 24, 2000) is an American pianist, singer, composer, songwriter, actor and musician.
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Gene Kranz
Eugene Francis "Gene" Kranz (born August 17, 1933) is an American aerospace engineer, retired fighter pilot and a retired NASA Flight Director and manager.
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GeoEye
GeoEye Inc. (formerly Orbital Imaging Corporation or ORBIMAGE) was an American commercial satellite imagery company based in Herndon, Virginia.
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Global Positioning System
The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Air Force.
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Guion Bluford
Guion Stewart Bluford Jr., Ph.D. (born November 22, 1942), (Col, USAF, Ret.), is an American aerospace engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer and fighter pilot, and former NASA astronaut, who was the first African American in space.
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Gus Grissom
Lieutenant Colonel Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom (April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967) was one of the original NASA Project Mercury astronauts, a United States Air Force test pilot, and a mechanical engineer.
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Hans Mark
Hans Michael Mark (born June 17, 1929 in Mannheim, Germany) is a former Secretary of the Air Force and a former Deputy Administrator of NASA.
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Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation.
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International Cospas-Sarsat Programme
The International Cospas-Sarsat Programme is a treaty-based, nonprofit, intergovernmental, humanitarian cooperative of 44 nations and agencies (see box on right) dedicated to detecting and locating radio beacons activated by persons, aircraft or vessels in distress, and forwarding this alert information to authorities that can take action for rescue.
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Jack Swigert
John Leonard "Jack" Swigert Jr. (August 30, 1931 – December 27, 1982) was an American test pilot, mechanical and aerospace engineer, United States Air Force pilot, and NASA astronaut.
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Jaleh Daie
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James Cameron
James Francis CameronSpace Foundation.
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James E. Hill
General James Erskine Hill (October 1, 1921 – May 20, 1999) was a World War II flying ace, United States Air Force general, and commander in chief of the North American Air Defense Command and the U.S. Air Force Aerospace Defense Command, with consolidated headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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James T. Kirk
James Tiberius "Jim" Kirk is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise.
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JAXA
The is the Japanese national aerospace and space agency.
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Jay Barbree
Jay Barbree (born November 26, 1933) is a correspondent for NBC News, focusing on space travel.
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center in Pasadena, California, United States, with large portions of the campus in La Cañada Flintridge, California.
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Jim Banke
Jim Banke is a former aerospace journalist and current owner of MILA Solutions LLC, a media consulting company.
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Jim Lovell
James Arthur Lovell Jr. (born March 25, 1928) is a former NASA astronaut, Naval Aviator, and retired Navy captain.
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John Young (astronaut)
John Watts Young (September 24, 1930 – January 5, 2018) was an American astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer.
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LCROSS
The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) was a robotic spacecraft operated by NASA.
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Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Simon Nimoy (March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015) was an American actor, film director, photographer, author, singer and songwriter.
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Leroy Chiao
Leroy Chiao (born August 28, 1960) is an American engineer, former NASA astronaut, entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and engineering consultant.
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List of Women in Technology International Hall of Fame inductees
The Women in Technology International Hall of Fame was established in 1996 by Women in Technology International (WITI) to honor women who contribute to the fields of science and technology.
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Majel Barrett
Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (born Majel Leigh Hudec;, The Daily Telegraph, December 21, 2008 February 23, 1932 – December 18, 2008) was an American actress and producer.
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Michael D. Griffin
Michael Douglas Griffin (born November 1, 1949) is an American physicist and aerospace engineer who is the current Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.
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NASA Social
NASA has hosted many events for its social media enthusiasts called NASA Socials (formerly NASA Tweetups) beginning in 2009.
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NASA spinoff technologies
NASA spinoff technologies are commercial products and services which have been developed with the help of NASA, through research and development contracts, such as Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or STTR awards, licensing of NASA patents, use of NASA facilities, technical assistance from NASA personnel, or data from NASA research.
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Nastran
NASTRAN is a finite element analysis (FEA) program that was originally developed for NASA in the late 1960s under United States government funding for the aerospace industry.
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National Space Council
The National Space Council is a body within the Executive Office of the President of the United States that was created in 1989 during the administration of George H.W. Bush, disbanded in 1993, and re-established in June 2017 by President Donald Trump.
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Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who was the first person to walk on the Moon.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator.
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NewSpace
NewSpace—formerly alt.space; also new space, entrepreneurial space, astropreneurship, and commercial space—are umbrella terms for a movement and philosophy encompassing a globally emerging, private spaceflight industry.
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Norman R. Augustine
Norman Ralph Augustine (born July 27, 1935) is a U.S. aerospace businessman who served as United States Under Secretary of the Army from 1975 to 1977.
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Outlast Technologies
Outlast Technologies, commonly referred to as Outlast, develops and sells phase change materials (PCMs) in the United States and internationally.
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Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space
Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space is a documentary film by Denis Delestrac with a music score by Amon Tobin.
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Peter Diamandis
Peter H. Diamandis (born May 20, 1961) is a Greek American engineer, physician, and entrepreneur best known for being founder and chairman of the X Prize Foundation, cofounder and executive chairman of Singularity University and coauthor of The New York Times bestsellers Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think and BOLD: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World. He is former CEO and cofounder of the Zero Gravity Corporation, cofounder and vice chairman of Space Adventures Ltd., founder and chairman of the Rocket Racing League, cofounder of the International Space University, cofounder of Planetary Resources, cofounder of Celularity, founder of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, vice chairman and cofounder of Human Longevity, Inc.
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Piers Sellers
Piers John Sellers OBE (11 April 1955 – 23 December 2016) was a British-American meteorologist, NASA astronaut and Director of the Earth Science Division at NASA/GSFC.
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Radiant barrier
A radiant barrier is a type of building product that reflects thermal radiation and reduces heat transfer.
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Robert Briskman
Robert D. Briskman (born October 15, 1932) is Technical Executive of Sirius XM Radio.
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Robert Smith Walker
Robert Smith Walker (born December 23, 1942) is a former American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican from 1977 until his retirement in 1997.
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Rogallo wing
The Rogallo wing is a flexible type of airfoil.
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Sally Ride
Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American engineer, physicist and astronaut.
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Satellite radio
Satellite radio is defined by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)'S ITU Radio Regulations (RR) as a broadcasting-satellite service.
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Science On a Sphere
Science On a Sphere (SOS) is a spherical projection system created by NOAA.
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Scott Carpenter Space Analog Station
The Scott Carpenter Space Analog Station was designed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as a seafloor research station—or underwater habitat.
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Sea Launch
Sea Launch is a multinational spacecraft launch service that used a mobile maritime launch platform for equatorial launches of commercial payloads on specialized Zenit-3SL rockets through 2014.
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Shenzhou 7
Shenzhou 7 was the third human spaceflight mission of the Chinese space program.
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Simon Ramo
Simon "Si" Ramo (May 7, 1913 – June 27, 2016) was an American engineer, businessman, and author.
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Space advocacy
Space advocacy is supporting or advocating for space exploration, space colonization and private spaceflight.
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Space Symposium
The premier gathering of the global space community, the Space Foundation’s Space Symposium (formerly the National Space Symposium) is held each Spring at The Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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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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SpaceShipOne
SpaceShipOne is an experimental air-launched rocket-powered aircraft with sub-orbital spaceflight capability at speeds of up to 900 m/s (3,000 ft/s), using a hybrid rocket motor.
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STS-95
STS-95 was a Space Shuttle mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on 29 October 1998, using the orbiter ''Discovery''.
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Télécoms Sans Frontières
The NGO Telecoms Sans Frontières or Telecoms Without Borders was the first humanitarian organization specializing in emergency telecommunications.
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Tempur-Pedic
Tempur-Pedic International, Inc. is a manufacturer and distributor of mattresses and pillows made from viscoelastic foam.
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The Space Report
The Space Report: The Authoritative Guide to Global Space Activity is published annually by the Space Foundation.
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Thomas S. Moorman Jr.
Thomas Samuel Moorman Jr. (born November 16, 1940) served as Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force from July 1994 to August 1997.
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Tom Hanks
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker.
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Umpqua Research Company
UMPQUA Research Company (URC) is an aerospace technology company based in Myrtle Creek, Oregon, United States.
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University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences
The College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences (CMNS) at the University of Maryland, College Park, is home to ten academic departments and a dozen interdisciplinary research centers and institutes.
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Wanda Austin
Wanda Austin (born 1954) is the former President and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation, a leading architect for the nation’s national security space programs.
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X Prize Foundation
XPRIZE is a nonprofit organization that designs and manages public competitions intended to encourage technological development that could benefit humanity.
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X-1R
X-1R is a patented performance lubricant originally developed for the NASA Space Shuttle Program.
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Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (p; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Foundation
