• Marco Polo was a proposed space mission concept studied between 2005 and 2015 that would return a sample of material to Earth from the surface of a Near...
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  • Look up Marco Polo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Marco Polo was a 13th-century Italian explorer. Marco Polo may also refer to: Marco Polo (producer)...
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    this asteroid was selected for MarcoPolo-R, which was the Marco Polo spacecraft's first proposed mission. MarcoPolo-R was originally selected for the...
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    was also considered for the NEAR mission. Marco Polo (spacecraft) List of asteroids visited by spacecraft "4015 Wilson-Harrington (1979 VA) // 107P"...
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  • and make a larger spacecraft. These are the reasons why this project is called "Hayabusa Mk2", rather than "Hayabusa3". Marco Polo was a proposed ESA-JAXA...
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    tables list all minor planets and comets that have been visited by robotic spacecraft. A total of 18 minor planets (asteroids, dwarf planets, and Kuiper belt...
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    concepts that were studied included the four candidate missions EChO, LOFT, MarcoPolo-R and STE-QUEST. In January 2015, ESA selected Thales Alenia Space, Airbus...
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    Mars Cube One (redirect from MarCO)
    more cost effective. The two Mars Cube One spacecraft are identical and officially called MarCO-A and MarCO-B and were launched together for redundancy;...
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  • 1841 and 1842. Lea and Blanchard. https://www.thecornpoppy.com/2020/02/marco-polo-and-bully-forbes.html Wilson, Derek (2003). A Brief History of the Circumnavigators...
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    built watertight, dated to about 1277. Texts written by writers such as Marco Polo (1254–1324), Ibn Battuta (1304–1369), Niccolò Da Conti (1395–1469), and...
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    mission B-DECIGO, gravity wave observation test mission Hayabusa Mk2/Marco Polo Space Solar Power System (SSPS), space-based solar power prototype launch...
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    e scrittura cartografica. La mappamundi di Fra Mauro e i racconti di Marco Polo e Niccolò de' Conti", Itineraria 3-4 (2005), pp. 157–202 [ISSN 1594-1019]...
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    The Indian Navy is the user of the multi-band, home-built communication spacecraft, which is operational. GSAT-7 was designed and developed by the Indian...
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    Life-support system (category Spacecraft design)
    factor at high oxygen concentrations. For this reason, most modern crewed spacecraft use conventional air (nitrogen/oxygen) atmospheres and use pure oxygen...
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    redirects. Project put on hold due to lack of financial support, as of 2012. Marco Polo – a sample-return mission focused on collecting and returning a sample...
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    Office Station Operations Branch serving as an International Space Station spacecraft communicator (ISS CAPCOM), a member of the Crew Test Support Team in Russia...
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    Interferometer Space Antenna.[citation needed] NASA has supported ESA's MarcoPolo-R mission which landed on asteroid Bennu in October 2020 and is scheduled...
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    162173 Ryugu (category Minor planets visited by spacecraft)
    135.1101V. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/135/4/1101. "International Symposium Marco Polo and other Small Body Sample Return Missions: Programme and Presentations"...
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    minutes. In early March 2007, she received a tube of wasabi in a Progress spacecraft resupply mission in response to her request for more spicy food. When...
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    been used extensively in ancient China. In 1282 the Italian explorer Marco Polo described the Chinese techniques then current. The Chinese also constructed...
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    composed of four identical spacecraft flying in a tetrahedral formation. As a replacement for the original Cluster spacecraft which were lost in a launch...
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    June 2013. "The History of Polo". Polomuseum.com. Retrieved 27 March 2015. Ben Johnson. "The origins and history of Polo". Historic-uk.com. Retrieved...
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    Skripochka. TMA-01M was the first launch of an updated model of the Soyuz spacecraft, and featured improved guidance, environmental control, and flight-control...
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  • the 24th mission of the Resolute (24th Colonist Group), an interstellar spacecraft carrying selected families and civilians to colonize the Alpha Centauri...
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    next mission, Mercury-Atlas 7, in the spacecraft he named Aurora 7. Due to a series of malfunctions, the spacecraft landed 250 miles (400 km) downrange...
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    connections are also used between rocket stages, and between the rocket and its spacecraft payload; these umbilicals are disconnected as stages are disconnected...
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    contamination – Biological contamination of a planetary body by a space probe or spacecraft List of laboratory biosecurity incidents Planetary protection – Prevention...
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    the descent module of the Soyuz spacecraft that had taken him to the space station in December 2015. The spacecraft landed on the Kazakh steppe in Kazakhstan...
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    privileges available to its 272,000 white people. Born: Nacho Figueras, Argentine polo star and male model; in Veinticinco de Mayo, Buenos Aires Province Ana Guevara...
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    Airlock (category Spacecraft components)
    was no room that was specifically designated to be an airlock on the spacecraft used during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969; instead, the cabin served as...
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