But until we have an effective spacecraft, the answer to the hunter-killer problem is manned aircraft.

The Apollo spacecraft could be tested in two vacuum chambers capable of simulating atmospheric pressure at altitudes up to, which is nearly a vacuum.

A rocket or rocket vehicle is a missile, spacecraft, aircraft or other vehicle which obtains thrust from a rocket engine.

* The fictitious interplanetary spacecraft Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov from the novel 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke is powered by a fictitious Sakharov drive.

Stanisław Lem has also studied the same idea in his novel The Invincible ( 1964 ), in which the crew of a spacecraft landing on a distant planet finds non-biological life-form, which is the product of long, possibly of millions of years of mechanical evolution.

Alpha Centauri is not actually a sequel to Civilization, despite beginning with the same event that ends Civilization and Civilization II: a manned spacecraft from Earth arrives in the Alpha Centauri star system.

In the Brain and Brawn series of novels series by Anne McCaffrey and others, beginning with The Ship Who Sang, a " brainship " is a human body, usually one that could not develop normally, encased in the strongest materials available in that universe, and mentally connected to the controls of a spacecraft.

She pilots a generic heavy spacecraft called Red Tail which is pale blue despite the name and has been heavily modified with armament and tracking sensors.

This is still a very active field of study, with scientists seeking both better data ( for example, the Planck spacecraft ) and better interpretations of the initial conditions of expansion.

Deep Space 1 ( DS1 ) is a spacecraft of the NASA New Millennium Program dedicated to testing a payload of advanced, high risk technologies.

The spacecraft is programmed with the target's coarse location.

Extra-vehicular activity ( EVA ) is any activity done by an astronaut or cosmonaut outside of a spacecraft beyond the Earth's appreciable atmosphere.

A " Stand-up " EVA ( SEVA ) is where the astronaut does not fully leave a spacecraft, but is completely reliant on the spacesuit for environmental support.

EVAs may be either tethered ( the astronaut is connected to the spacecraft ; oxygen and electrical power can be supplied through an umbilical cable ; no propulsion is needed to return to the spacecraft ), or untethered.

A SAFER is a safety device worn on tethered U. S. EVAs, since the capability of returning to the spacecraft is essential.

Aerospace engineering is the branch of engineering behind the design, construction and science of aircraft and spacecraft.

Currently ESOC is operating the following spacecraft: XMM-Newton, the four Cluster spacecraft, INTEGRAL, Mars Express, Rosetta, Venus Express, GOCE, Herschel, Planck, and Cryosat-2

This centre is also responsible for the development of the technology infrastructure it requires to support existing and planned missions, including Space Control and Operations Software ( SCOS 2000 ), an adaptable software infrastructure for monitoring and controlling the various spacecraft.

In an informal discussion in 1950, the physicist Enrico Fermi questioned why, if a multitude of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations exists in the Milky Way galaxy, evidence such as spacecraft or probes is not seen.

He flies a sleek red customized Mono Racer, an atmosphere-capable spacecraft called Swordfish II.

Odyssey used a technique called " aerobraking " that gradually brought the spacecraft closer to Mars with each orbit.

There was a small hinged metal flap at the nose of the spacecraft called the spoiler.

If the spacecraft started to reenter nose first ( another stable reentry attitude for the spacecraft ), airflow over the spoiler would flip the spacecraft around to the proper, heatshield-first reentry attitude, a technique called shuttlecocking.

A second-generation Mariner spacecraft, called the Mariner Mark II series, eventually evolved into the Cassini – Huygens probe, now in orbit around Saturn.

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Solar sails ( also called light sails or photon sails ) are a form of spacecraft propulsion using the radiation pressure ( also called solar pressure ) of a combination of light and high speed ejected gasses from a star to push large ultra-thin mirrors to high speeds.

The show's setting is a huge generational colony spacecraft called The Ark, which has gone off-course.

Instead they relied on the network of ground stations, also called Command Points to communicate with the spacecraft ; all of these Command Points were located within the Soviet Union.

Vehicles that do not travel on land often are called craft, such as watercraft, sailcraft, aircraft, hovercraft and spacecraft.

The spacecraft variant of the gaseous fission reactor is called the gas core reactor rocket.

Spacecraft subsystems comprise the spacecraft " bus " and may include: attitude determination and control ( variously called ADAC, ADC or ACS ), guidance, navigation and control ( GNC or GN & C ), communications ( Comms ), command and data handling ( CDH or C & DH ), power ( EPS ), thermal control ( TCS ), propulsion, and structures.

Typically though, LEO spacecraft ( for example Terra ( EOS AM-1 ) include a propulsion subsystem for altitude adjustments ( called drag make-up maneuvers ) and inclination adjustment maneuvers.

A robotic spacecraft designed to make scientific research measurements is often called a space probe.

" Eagle 5 " is also a reference to Space: 1999, as the spacecraft used in that series were called " Eagles ".

Once in space, the motion of a spacecraft — both when unpropelled and when under propulsion — is covered by the area of study called astrodynamics.

The failure was called " A major disappointment ", though later statements claim the spacecraft will still be able to complete their mission.

The mecha anime series The Super Dimension Fortress Macross from the early eighties featured a type of military spacecraft used by the U. N. Spacy Earth forces called the Oberth Class Space Destroyer.

She was also planning to conduct two 15-minute classes from space, including a tour of the spacecraft, called " The Ultimate Field Trip ", and a lesson about the benefits of space travel, called " Where We've Been, Where We're Going, Why.

The Enterprise or USS Enterprise ( often referred to as the " Starship Enterprise ") is the name of several fictional spacecraft, some of which are the main setting for various television series and films in the Star Trek franchise.

* USS Prometheus, a fictional spacecraft in the episode " Message in a Bottle " of Star Trek: Voyager

By December 15, 2010 it broke the record for longest serving spacecraft at Mars, with 3, 340 days of operation, claiming the title from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor.

The title is based on the image of the spacecraft hanging from the cable like a spider on a thread.

The series title comes from the name of the main human spacecraft ( which is usually shortened from Super Dimension Fortress to SDF-1 Macross as it is the first ).

The original name for the Macross project was Battle City Megarodo ( or Battle City Megaroad, as the Japanese transliteration to either " L " or " R " gives the title a double meaning in reference to the story line: Megaload, referring to the spacecraft containing an entire city of people ; and Megaroad, referring to the long journey through space back to Earth ); however, one of the sponsors of the project, Big West Advertising, was a fan of Shakespeare and wanted the series and the spacecraft to be named.

In Fred Saberhagen's 1967 Berserker stories, the Berserkers of the title are giant computerized self-replicating spacecraft, once used as a doomsday device in an interstellar war aeons ago, and, having destroyed both their enemies and their makers, still attempting to fulfil their mission of destroying all life in the universe.

By December 15, 2010 the orbiter broke the record for longest serving spacecraft at Mars, with 3, 340 days of operation, claiming the title from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, which had arrived sooner than Odyssey but failed in 2006.

It is the last of three sequels to Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama by these authors, and as the title suggests reveals the mysteries behind the enigmatic Rama spacecraft.

The title refers to the spacecraft that is central to the plot, with A. E.

The titular ship of the series title, " Spaceship Orion ", ( German " Raumschiff Orion ") is portrayed as being a fast space cruiser ( German: Schneller Raumkreuzer ), the newest starship in mankind's fleet and the fastest spacecraft ever created by humans.

On January 14, 2004, Bush announced a Vision for Space Exploration, calling for the completion of the International Space Station by 2010 and the retirement of the space shuttle while developing a new spacecraft called the Crew Exploration Vehicle under the title Project Constellation.

Known as the Vision for Space Exploration, the policy called for the completion of the International Space Station by 2010 and the retirement of the space shuttle, while developing a new spacecraft called the Crew Exploration Vehicle ( CEV ) under the title Project Constellation.

The title track of Matthew Wilder's 1984 LP Bouncin ' Off the Walls tells a similar story of an unnamed character having a personal crisis while piloting a spacecraft: " Tell my family I love them ....