Apollo used Saturn family rockets as launch vehicles.

The LOC also included an Operations and Checkout Building ( OCB ), to which Gemini and Apollo spacecraft were initially received prior to being mated to their launch vehicles.

Rockets are used for fireworks, weaponry, ejection seats, launch vehicles for artificial satellites, human spaceflight and exploration of other planets.

This leads to much cheaper launch vehicles.

Modern ICBMs tend to be smaller than their ancestors, due to increased accuracy and smaller and lighter warheads, and use solid fuels, making them less useful as orbital launch vehicles.

MIRV was an outgrowth of the rapidly shrinking size and weight of modern warheads and the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaties which imposed limitations on the number of launch vehicles ( SALT I and SALT II ).

Current space vehicles attempt to launch with all their fuel ( propellants and energy supplies ) on board that they will need for their entire journey, and current space structures are lifted from the Earth's surface.

Its two major components, the Saturn Workshop and the Apollo Telescope Mount, began their development as separate projects ( the SWS was kludged from the S-IVB stage of the Saturn 1B and Saturn V launch vehicles, the ATM was kludged from an early design for the descent stage of the Apollo Lunar Module ).

In early planning for the Apollo Program, it had been assumed that two Saturn V launch vehicles would be used for each lunar mission: one for sending the crew aboard a Lunar Surface Module ( LSM ) to lunar orbit, landing, and returning, and a second for sending an LSM-Truck ( LSM-T ) with all of the equipment, supplies, and transport vehicle for use by the crew while on the surface.

The Mercury program used three launch vehicles:

Names of launch vehicles can be read from mission names ; MR = Redstone, MA = Atlas, MJ = Jupiter, MS = Scout and LJ = Little Joe.

The design retains most of the essential features of Mars Direct, but uses multiple medium-lift rocket launchers that are commercially available today ( such as the Ariane V or the Delta rocket ) to launch the crew vehicles, and their propulsion, separately, and mate them in orbit.

Rockets are now used for fireworks, weaponry, ejection seats, launch vehicles for artificial satellites, human spaceflight and space exploration.

The highest mass ratios are generally achieved with liquid rockets, and these types are usually used for orbital launch vehicles, a situation which calls for a high delta-v.

Rocket launch vehicles take-off with a great deal of flames, noise and drama, and it might seem obvious that they are grievously inefficient.

For hardware with the performance used in orbital launch vehicles, expenses of $ 2000 –$ 10, 000 + per kilogram of dry weight are common, primarily from engineering, fabrication, and testing ; raw materials amount to typically around 2 % of total expense.

To change the preceding factors for orbital launch vehicles, proposed methods have included mass-producing simple rockets in large quantities or on large scale, or developing reusable rockets meant to fly very frequently to amortize their up-front expense over many payloads, or

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Slingshots have also been used by the military to launch unmanned aerial vehicles ( UAVs ).

The Obama Administration proposed a revision of Constellation in 2010 to focus on the development of the capability for crewed missions beyond low earth orbit ( LEO ), envisioning extending the operation of the ISS beyond 2020, transferring the development of launch vehicles for human crews from NASA to the private sector, and developing technology to enable missions to beyond LEO, such as Earth / Moon L1, the Moon, Earth / Sun L2, near-earth asteroids, and Phobos or Mars orbit.

** Spacecraft design for launch vehicles and satellites

To settle space, much cheaper launch vehicles are required, as well as a way to avoid serious damage to the atmosphere from the thousands, perhaps millions, of launches required.

No Earth-launched SSTO launch vehicles have ever been constructed.

The goals of fully reusable SSTO vehicles include lower operating costs, improved safety, and better reliability than current launch vehicles.

Launch of Apollo 1 was planned for February 21, 1967, when the crew entered the spacecraft on January 27, mounted atop its Saturn IB booster on Launch Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy, for a " plugs-out " test of the spacecraft, which included a rehearsal of the launch countdown procedure.

After launch on a Delta 7925-8 ( a Delta II launch vehicle with nine strap-on solid-rocket boosters and a Star 48 ( PAM-D ) third stage ) and exit from Earth orbit, NEAR entered the first part of its cruise phase.

After a mid-course correction the day after launch, Luna 15 entered lunar orbit at 10: 00 UT on 17 July 1969.

On November 19, 2010, MSFC entered the new field of microsatellites with the successful launch of FASTSAT ( Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite ).

FT Group has since sold this stake in April 2008 and has entered into an agreement with Network 18 to launch Financial Times in India, though it is speculated that they may find it difficult to do so, as the brand Financial Times in India is owned by The Times Group, the publisher of The Times of India and The Economic Times.

The phrase entered the political lexicon and, some say, helped launch Reagan's successful run for the presidency.

DIAL / MIKA failed during launch, but entered orbit with a total mass of 111 kg.

The first of a constellation of three Skynet 5 vehicles was launched by an Ariane 5 rocket at 22: 03 GMT on 11 March 2007, in a launch shared with the Indian INSAT 4B civil communications satellite, and entered full service on 10 May 2007.

In January 2008, San Diego International Airport entered the blogosphere with the launch of the first employee blog – the Ambassablog – for a major U. S. airport.

Courts entered Phase 2 of its re-branding with the launch of Courts Megastore in December 2007.

Also significant was the 1961-built France ( later renamed Norway ) which held the record for the longest passenger ship from when she entered service in 1961 until the launch of Queen Mary 2 in 2003.

After a longstanding speculation about TSN's interest in launching its own TSN-branded radio network, TSN entered radio broadcasting with the launch of the first TSN Radio station, a re-launch of AM station CHUM in Toronto on April 13, 2011.

It entered into an orbit, and was briefly visible from Gemini 7 just after launch.

In 1998 the SRS and SPO entered the so-called " war " government, and as Deputy Prime Minister, Šešelj passed new information laws and helped launch propaganda offensives against Kosovo Albanians.

Chicago attorney and devoted Trotskyist Albert Goldman, who entered the SP about a year earlier than his comrades, launched a factionally-oriented newspaper called The Socialist Appeal, while Cannon headed west to Tujunga, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, to launch a western paper oriented to the trade union movement called Labor Action.

Introduced in the 1984 Paris Motor Show, the SEAT Ibiza Mk1 ( codenamed 021A ) entered production in the ' Zona Franca ' assembly lines on April 27, 1984 and proved to be a success for the Spanish firm as it sold 1, 342, 001 units until the launch of its second generation in 1993.

Eddie Bauer entered into a three-year licensing agreement with Giant Bicycle, Inc., to launch a line of Eddie Bauer Edition mountain bikes for off-terrain and city riding.

When SIM Lite entered what JPL terms " Phase B " in 2003 Fringes: Space Interferometry Mission Newsletter, called it a most important milestone on the way to a 2009 launch.

Immediately after the successful launch of Wizards of the Coast's Magic: The Gathering card game, TSR entered the fledgling CCG market with their take on a fantasy-themed card game.

to make repairs to parts that were programmed to self-destruct a decade after the ship's launch into orbit and give Mike a pep talk, after which he left the satellite through the corridor to the theater, where he had entered it earlier in that episode.

But with David Ben-Gurion's decision, 1 October 1945, to launch an armed struggle against the British, the Palmach entered an alliance with the dissident groups, called The Hebrew Resistance Movement.

Metacomco, BSTRINGS, BPOINTERS, and family contained in the Amiga FS entered the scene when it was decided that the originally planned OS would take too long to be developed in time for the launch of Amiga.

Most weapons have additional arming circuitry that, even if a valid launch code is entered, will not arm the warhead unless the weapon senses that it has been released on an expected delivery path.