Space Transportation System (STS), also known internally to NASA as the Integrated Program Plan (IPP), was a proposed system of reusable crewed space...
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accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken...
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Columbia Accident Investigation Board report showed that the Space Transportation System (STS) was risky and unsafe. In 2004, President George W. Bush...
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Boeing Starliner (redirect from Crew Space Transportation 100 Starliner)
Retrieved August 29, 2024. "Boeing and SpaceX Selected to Build America's New Crew Space Transportation System". NASA. September 16, 2014. Archived from...
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Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was the Space Transportation System (STS), taken...
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The Space Shuttle thermal protection system (TPS) is the barrier that protected the Space Shuttle Orbiter during the extreme 1,650 °C (3,000 °F) heat...
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A space elevator, also referred to as a space bridge, star ladder, and orbital lift, is a proposed type of planet-to-space transportation system, often...
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The Space Shuttle orbiter is the spaceplane component of the Space Shuttle, a partially reusable orbital spacecraft system that was part of the discontinued...
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The Space Launch System (SLS) is an American super heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle used by NASA. As the primary launch vehicle of the Artemis Moon...
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Engineering Record (HAER) No. TX-116-A, "Space Transportation System, Orbiter Discovery (OV-103), Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, 2101 NASA Parkway, Houston...
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Crew Space Transportation System (CSTS), or Advanced Crew Transportation System (ACTS), was a proposed design for a crewed spacecraft for low Earth orbit...
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The Advanced Space Transportation Program (ASTP) is a NASA program to intentionally advance current space transportation system technologies, and innovate...
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services. It was founded in 2011 to develop a new air-launched space transportation system, with its corporate headquarters in Seattle. The company and...
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that transports payload already in space to another location in outer space, such as in the Space Transportation System concept. An example would be moving...
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Signalling System 7, telephony signaling protocols System 7 Napoleonics, tabletop miniatures wargaming STS-7 (Space Transportation System-7), the Space Shuttle...
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2021. "TESTIMONY OF ROCCO PETRONE, PRESIDENT, SPACE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS DIVISION, NORTH AMERICAN SPACE OPERATIONS, ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL; BOB GLAYSHER...
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Report, Utilization of the external tanks of the space transportation system [1]) "The Very Large Space Telescope (VLST)". SOMTC - Advanced Concepts Studies...
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Astrium (redirect from EADS Astrium Space Transportation)
Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), headquartered in Paris. It designed, developed and manufactured civil and military space systems and provided related...
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part of a planetary-surface-to-orbit / orbit-to-escape-velocity space transportation system. Tethered formation flying This is typically a non-conductive...
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Space Systems Command (SSC) is the United States Space Force's space development, acquisition, launch, and logistics field command. It is headquartered...
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Administration). Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the...
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Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) was a joint research project between the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
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Engineering Record (HAER) No. TX-116-B, "Space Transportation System, Orbiter Atlantis (OV-104), Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, 2101 NASA Parkway, Houston...
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each school. Endeavour was delivered by Rockwell International Space Transportation Systems Division in May 1991 and first launched a year later, in May...
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Next Generation Launch Vehicle (category Partially reusable space launch vehicles)
program director for ISRO's Space Transportation System and the projector director for NGLV at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC). The development...
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STS-1 (category Space Shuttle missions)
STS-1 (Space Transportation System-1) was the first orbital spaceflight of NASA's Space Shuttle program. The first orbiter, Columbia, launched on April...
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Retrieved 2016-05-23. Royce Jones. "Beamed Energy In-Space Transportation System for Near Space Colonization" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF)...
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for transportation restrictions, ensuring the front section could be delivered to the Marshall Space Flight Center via the interstate highway system, which...
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During NASA's Space Shuttle program, several missions were canceled. Many were canceled as a result of the Challenger and the Columbia disasters or due...
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Private spaceflight (redirect from Innovative Space Propulsion Systems)
Ariane — The first commercial space transportation system. Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Space Technology and Science. Vol. 2....
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