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    planned Ares I and Ares V rockets with a family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles named "Jupiter".[citation needed] DIRECT was advocated by a group of...
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    The Saturn family of American rockets was developed by a team of former German rocket engineers and scientists led by Wernher von Braun to launch heavy...
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    subcontractors to Chrysler. In 1955, the Jupiter-C rocket (not to be confused with the later, unrelated Jupiter IRBM) was developed as an enhanced Redstone...
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    PGM-17 Thor (redirect from Thor Rocket)
    fired from US soil. By 1959, with the Atlas rocket well on its way to operational status, both Thor and Jupiter programs became obsolete as delivery vehicles...
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  • of the Redstone rocket family, it was derived from the U.S. Army's Redstone ballistic missile and the first stage of the related Jupiter-C launch vehicle;...
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    non-hypergolic liquid propellants. It is the fifth iteration of the Long March rocket family. There are currently two CZ-5 variants: CZ-5 and CZ-5B. The maximum...
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  • Saturn I (redirect from Saturn I rocket)
    design envisaged eight rocket tanks similar to the Redstone stage strapped around a central larger tank derived from a Jupiter rocket. The design and diameter...
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    Saturn V (redirect from Saturn V rocket)
    created the Jupiter series of rockets. The Juno I rocket launched the first American satellite in January 1958. Von Braun considered the Jupiter series of...
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    solid-propellant rocket or solid rocket is a rocket with a rocket engine that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer). The earliest rockets were solid-fuel rockets powered...
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    Kurt Debus (category German rocket scientists)
    the development and construction of rocket launch facilities at Cape Canaveral for the Redstone, Jupiter, Jupiter-C, Juno and Pershing military configurations...
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    company inherited the Atlas rocket family from Lockheed Martin and the Delta rocket family from Boeing. As of 2024, the Delta family has been retired and the...
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  • Mary Sherman Morgan (category Rocket scientists)
    2004) was a U.S. rocket fuel scientist credited with the invention of the liquid fuel Hydyne in 1957, which powered the Jupiter-C rocket that boosted the...
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    RL10 (redirect from RL-10 (rocket engine))
    Orion-3 communications satellite. The DIRECT version 3.0 proposal to replace Ares I and Ares V with a family of rockets sharing a common core stage recommended...
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    Lost in Space (redirect from Jupiter 2)
    The Jupiter 2, a futuristic saucer-shaped spacecraft, stands on its launchpad undergoing final preparations. Its mission is to take a single family on...
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  • List of Atlas launches (2020–2029) (category Atlas (rocket family))
    "NASA Selects United Launch Alliance's Reliable Atlas V Rocket to Launch Lucy Mission to Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids". United Launch Alliance (ULA). 31 January...
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    Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) would have remained the same. The Jupiter family of super heavy-lift launch vehicles was part of the proposed DIRECT Shuttle-Derived...
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    IFT-6 planned for this year. Additionally, the final launch of a Delta family rocket occurred in April with a Delta IV Heavy. In May, China launched the...
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    developed from von Braun's V-2 rocket and navigation systems derived from the US army's Redstone and Jupiter rockets. Before his official approval of...
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    Discovery as a 'booster rocket', enabling them to return to Earth ahead of schedule, but leaving Discovery in an elliptical orbit of Jupiter. The crew worries...
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  • 2010: Odyssey Two (category Novels set on Jupiter)
    (one) as a "booster rocket", enabling them to return to Earth ahead of schedule. HAL and the Discovery (one) will be trapped in Jupiter's orbit, with insufficient...
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    stands had been constructed at ABMA for the Redstone and Jupiter rockets. In 1961, the Jupiter stand was modified to test Saturn 1 and 1B stages. A number...
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    Lancair ES Lake Aircraft Lasta 95 Helio/Maule M5-235 Mooney M20 Moynet 360-6 Jupiter MSW Votec 252T Murphy Moose Neiva Universal Northrop Grumman Firebird PAC...
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    NASA, and Commercial payloads. It is America's longest-serving active rocket. After 87 launches, in August 2021 ULA announced that Atlas V would be retired...
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    Shuttle-Centaur (category Rocket engines using hydrogen propellant)
    from Venus and Earth to reach Jupiter. The USAF mated a variant of the Centaur G-Prime upper stage with its Titan rocket to produce the Titan IV, which...
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  • Neil Pearson, directed by Tim Shawcross, produced by Geoff Deehan, made by Union Pictures with Discovery Communications 3 December On Jupiter, about the...
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    Europa Clipper (category Missions to Jupiter)
    a direct trajectory to Jupiter taking less than three years. One alternative to the direct trajectory was identified as using a commercial rocket, with...
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    Voyager 2 (category Missions to Jupiter)
    Voyager program. It was launched on a trajectory towards the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and enabled further encounters with the ice giants Uranus and...
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  • Thumbnail for List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches
    List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches (category Lists of rocket launches)
    Since June 2010, rockets from the Falcon 9 family have been launched 354 times, with 352 full mission successes, two failures, and one partial success...
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    post-war era the Arsenal was used for research and development by German rocket scientists who were brought to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip...
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    Falcon 9 (redirect from Falcon 9 rocket)
    commercial rocket to launch humans to orbit. It is the only U.S. rocket certified for transporting humans to the ISS. In 2022, it became the U.S. rocket with...
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