Space Travel: A Technological FrontierDescribes various types of space vehicles such as the Space Station, Manned Maneuvering and Orbital Maneuvering Vehicles, space shuttles, areospace planes, and launch vehicles. |
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Actuator aerospace plane airlock altitude aluminum astronauts atmosphere attached Avionics cargo bay combustion chamber commands communication components control center crew crewmember deployed developed device docking port Earth orbit Elevon equipment European Space Agency external tank extra-vehicular activity flight deck fuel tank fuselage gases geosynchronous orbit gimbal gravity gyros heat hypersonic ignition kbps kilograms kilometers landing liquid oxygen low-Earth orbit Mach main engines meters mission control move NASA nitrogen nozzle operate orbital velocity oxygen tank panels parachute payload bay pilot platform Preburner pressure Propulsion Module radio ramjet reentry Remote Manipulator System reusable rotation S-Band Salyut satellite scramjet Shuttle mission Skylab solar solid propellant solid rocket boosters Soviet Union Soyuz Space Shuttle Space Station spacecraft spacesuit speed of sound structure subsystem temperature thermal thrust thrusters Turbopump TV Camera United States Space upper stage Valve