Возвращаемый Аппарат, lit. 'Return Vehicle', GRAU index 11F74), or VA spacecraft, was a Soviet crew capsule, intended to serve as a crewed launch and...

Station. The TKS spacecraft consisted of two spacecraft mated together, both of which could operate independently: The VA spacecraft (known mistakenly...

Soviets developed several spacecraft for support roles—the VA spacecraft, the Functional Cargo Block and the TKS spacecraft—which they planned to use...

up VA or Va in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. VA, Va and variants may refer to: Vä, Sweden, a village Vatican City (ISO 3166-1 country code VA) Virginia...

Salyut space station program. The TKS spacecraft was formed by mating a FGB with a VA spacecraft, with both the VA and the FGB being capable of independent...

A reusable spacecraft is a class of spacecraft that have been designed with repeated launch, orbit, deorbit and atmospheric reentry in mind. This contrasts...

according to reports published by cybersecurity firm SentinelOne. 17K-AM VA spacecraft Strela (rocket) UR-100 UR-200 P-70 Ametist (NATO codename: SS-N-7 Starbright)...

Almaz. Excalibur Almaz was designing a spacecraft based on the VA capsule hull from the TKS spacecraft. The VA is a space capsule from the Soviet space...

direct-descent lunar lander program. The spacecraft consisted of the following modules: ADU Emergency Engine Unit VA Capsule (crew module) PAB Equipment-Rocket...

only spacecraft to have ever visited the ice giants Uranus and Neptune. In August 2018, NASA confirmed, based on results by the New Horizons spacecraft, the...

Cygnus is an expendable American cargo spacecraft developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation but manufactured and launched by Northrop Grumman Space Systems...

Merkur (train), an express train in Europe Merkur spacecraft, the name given in the West to the VA spacecraft MV Merkur (1924), a passenger cargo vessel Merkur...

on-site. Langley was also considered a potential site for NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center prior to the eventual selection of Houston, Texas. Established...

more complex than any previous crewed spacecraft. In October 1963, Joseph F. Shea was named Apollo Spacecraft Program Office (ASPO) manager, responsible...

family) Atlas I Atlas II Magellan (spacecraft) Mars Polar Lander Viking program Viking 1 Viking 2 WIND (spacecraft) Lacrosse (satellite) Martin Marietta...

communications terminal. The mission ended on April 18, 2014, when the spacecraft's controllers intentionally crashed LADEE into the far side of the Moon...

published in 1988. Laser propulsion systems may transfer momentum to a spacecraft in two different ways. The first way uses photon radiation pressure to...

(inclination ≥ 5°)   Geostationary Orbit (inclination < 5°)   Crewed spacecraft Indian space missions began in the 1970s, with Soviet assistance in launching...

Gruntman, Mike (2004). Blazing the Trail: The Early History of Spacecraft and Rocketry. Reston, VA: AIAA. p. 326. ISBN 9781563477058. "TheSpaceRace.com – Glossary...

"fastest spacecraft" depends on the reference frame used. Because of the influence of gravity, maximum velocities are usually attained when a spacecraft is...

spaceplane designs in all but lift-to-drag ratio for less cost. The Soyuz spacecraft is an example. Most capsules have used an ablative heat shield for reentry...

May 15, 1963, from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft, named Faith 7, completed 22 Earth orbits before splashing down in the...

space, vacuum and temperature extremes. Space suits are often worn inside spacecraft as a safety precaution in case of loss of cabin pressure, and are necessary...

composed of four identical spacecraft flying in a tetrahedral formation. As a replacement for the original Cluster spacecraft which were lost in a launch...

rockets remain the only way to launch spacecraft into orbit and beyond. They are also used to rapidly accelerate spacecraft when they change orbits or de-orbit...

for its Prometheus spacecraft proposal to NASA under phase 2 of the Commercial Crew Development program. Hermes Dream Chaser "VA-HUD and Independent...

practical problems concerning the motion of rockets, satellites, and other spacecraft. The motion of these objects is usually calculated from Newton's laws...

Luna 10 (or Lunik 10) was a 1966 Soviet lunar robotic spacecraft mission in the Luna program. It was the first artificial satellite of the Moon. Luna 10...

first spacecraft to reach its surface successfully, intentionally impacting the Moon on 14 September 1959. In 1966, Luna 9 became the first spacecraft to...

finer cloud patterns were not observed until the flybys of the Voyager spacecraft during the 1980s. Since then, Earth-based telescopy has improved to the...