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...

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...

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...

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...

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;...

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...

the development and construction of rocket launch facilities at Cape Canaveral for the Redstone, Jupiter, Jupiter-C, Juno and Pershing military configurations...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Jupiter 2, a futuristic saucer-shaped spacecraft, stands on its launchpad undergoing final preparations. Its mission is to take a single family on...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Voyager program. It was launched on a trajectory toward the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and enabled further encounters with the ice giants Uranus and...

Since June 2010, rockets from the Falcon 9 family have been launched 346 times, with 344 full mission successes, two failures, and one partial success...

Neil Pearson, directed by Tim Shawcross, produced by Geoff Deehan, made by Union Pictures with Discovery Communications 3 December On Jupiter, about the...

a direct trajectory to Jupiter taking less than three years. One alternative to the direct trajectory was identified as using a commercial rocket, with...

with his team, then developed the Jupiter-C, a modified Redstone rocket. The Jupiter-C was the basis for the Juno I rocket that successfully launched the...

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...

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...

"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...

classical mythology, which had already lent names to rockets like the Greek Atlas and Roman Jupiter for the SM-65 and PGM-19 missiles. It absorbed military...

became the first commercial rocket to launch humans to orbit and remains the only such vehicle. It is the only U.S. rocket certified for transporting humans...