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	CNN.com - NASA scrubs shuttle launch after mishap in space - November 30, 2001
		Space station flight rules do not allow spacecraft such as the shuttle to dock at the station when another craft is not firmly mated to its docking collar.
		The shuttle's payload for the mission consists of more than two tons of supplies, including food, hardware, experiments and thousands of miniature U.S. flags, which will later be given to relatives of those who died in the September attacks.
		While no specific threat was mentioned, Col. Samuel Dick, the Air Force officer responsible for launch security, noted that some of the September 11 hijackers identified by the FBI had lived and trained in Florida.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/TECH/space/11/29/shuttle.scrub (415 words)

	Boeing X-43
		The program seeks to demonstrate "air-breathing" engine technologies that promise to increase payload capacity or reduce vehicle size for the same payload for future hypersonic aircraft and/or reusable space launch vehicles.
		#2: X -Planes 2000 - News, links, and information about the F-16XL, Joint Strike Fighter, UCAVs, X - 43, X -44, and other experimental aviation craft.
		#1: X - 43, X -Planes Data Site - NASA has established a multi-year experimental hypersonic ground and flight test program called Hyper- X.
	omniknow.com /essays/X-43.html (415 words)

	Ilan Ramon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ilan Ramon (Hebrew: אילןרמון; June 20, 1954–February 1, 2003) was a combat pilot in the Israeli Air Force and later Israel's first astronaut and space shuttle payload specialist of STS-107 (Columbia) who was killed when the craft disintegrated during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.
		Ramon's mother and grandmother survived imprisonment in Auschwitz during the Holocaust.
		Aboard STS-107, Ramon carried a pencil sketch, "Moon Landscape", which was drawn by 14-year-old Petr Ginz who was killed in the Auschwitz death camp during the Holocaust.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ilan_Ramon (755 words)

	More Favored than the Birds The Manned Maneuvering Unit in Space
		The astronaut representative for the MMU was Bruce McCandless, who as a member of the astronauts corps had served a CapCom or capsule communicator transmitting voice messages to Apollo spacecraft 10, 11, and 14, and who had participated in Skylab Experiment M509.
		Outside the craft an oxygen hose, electrical and communication wires, and a safety tether connected the astronaut to the spacecraft.
		In a brochure for the "payload community," NASA advertised the MMU: "Since the Manned Maneuvering Unit has a six-degree-of-freedom control authority, an automatic attitude-hold capability and electrical outlets for such ancillary equipment as power tools, a portable light, cameras and instrument monitoring devices, the unit is quite versatile and adaptable to many payload task requirements.
	history.nasa.gov /SP-4219/Chapter13.html (755 words)

	DefenseLINK News: NAVY COMMISSIONS DOCK LANDING SHIP PEARL HARBOR (LSD 52)
		Pearl Harbor carries Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) vehicles, which are assault landing craft capable of exceeding 40 knots while carrying a 60-ton payload.
		Pearl Harbor is the Navy's 4TH Harpers Ferry class dock landing ship, which is a "cargo variant" configuration of the Whidbey Island class, therefore providing additional space for Marine Corps equipment.
		From the Sea." Pearl Harbor's mission is to transport Marines with their associated combat equipment, and launch pre-loaded assault landing craft and helicopters during amphibious operations against hostile shores.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/docs/b05291998_b271-98.html (755 words)

	Robert L. Crippen -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		It combined three systems: a winged orbiter carrying crew and payload; an external tank with propellant for the three main rocket engines; and twin solid rocket boosters to lift the craft above the thickest part of the atmosphere.
		He entered the U.S. Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory program in 1966 and transferred to the astronaut corps in 1969.
		During the 1970s the United States developed the space shuttle, the first reusable manned space vehicle.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9320639 (676 words)

	TIM'S SPACE DIARY
		NASA budget problems have forced the ion propulsion system powered Dawn spacecraft to explore the two largest asteroids, Ceres and Vesta after launch in June 2006 to be “stood down”.
		Meanwhile, an Atlas D is launched from Vandenberg on a US Air Force mission 1965-78, carrying the OV1-02 and 0V2S radiation satellites, with a classified Air Force payload.
		The geostationary orbit spacecraft was originally to have been launched with a Russian Express comsat but the latter craft was launched in June under Government orders.
	www.ssc.se /default.asp?groupid=20041119215621308 (13076 words)

	Skylon
		Skylon would be constructed from Carbon Fibre, with aluminium fuel tanks and a ceramic "aeroshell" to protect the craft from the heat of re-entry.
		Skylon could take 12 tonnes of payload to an Equatorial Orbit, or 9.5 tonnes to the International Space Station.
		A new engine was designed and called SABRE (Synergic Air Breathing Engine).
	www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/6133/skylon.html (362 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Delta Launch Report \| Mission Status Center
		The goals of the craft include collecting data on space weather and auroral activity in the northern and southern hemispheres, while testing the concept of small satellites operating autonomously in orbit.
		SAC-C - The Argentine scientific research spacecraft that is the co-primary payload of this launch.
		The EO-1 satellite features a suite of futuristic remote sensing instruments that will be tested on this mission for possible use by next-generation Landsat satellites for monitoring Earth's environment from space.
	spaceflightnow.com /delta/d282/status.html (5895 words)

	CNN Cold War - Route Cold War
		Developed as part of "Star Wars" anti-missile research, Lightcraft were limited to paper studies until about four years ago, when Myrabo and Air Force scientist Franklin Mead began trying it out.
		Myrabo, an aerospace engineering professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) of Troy, New York, first had the idea for the Lightcraft 10 years ago.
		Before a launch, Myrabo positions the craft on a spindle and sets it spinning at about 6,000 revolutions per minute with a jet of nitrogen gas.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/experience/the.bomb/route/04.white.sands (5895 words)

	Atlas 2AS rocket launches from Vandenberg
		The most recent Atlas rocket flown from Vandenberg, on September 8, 2001, lifted a payload thought to be surveillance craft like the ones launched this morning.
		Atlas V is one of two evolved expendable launch vehicles set to provide medium and heavy space-lift capability here.
		A Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS rocket carried out a clandestine mission in the predawn darkness today, deploying into space what is believed to be a package of ocean surveillance satellites to aid the U.S. government track suspicious ships in the global fight against terrorism.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1032173/posts (2485 words)

	Michael P. Anderson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Phillip Anderson (December 25, 1959– February 1, 2003) was a Lieutenant Colonel (USAF), a NASA astronaut and the Space Shuttle payload commander of STS-107 (Columbia) who was killed when the craft disintegrated after reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.
		Anderson Plaza, the green space in front of the Hixson-Lied Science Center at Creighton University was named after him in a comprimise between the student body, who wanted the Science Center named for Anderson, and the administration who had already sold the naming rights to the Hixson-Lied family.
		From September 1992 to February 1995 he was assigned as an instructor pilot and tactics officer in the 380 Air Refueling Wing, Plattsburgh AFB New York.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_P._Anderson (712 words)

	Michael P. Anderson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Phillip Anderson (December 25, 1959– February 1, 2003) was a Lieutenant Colonel (USAF), a NASA astronaut and the Space Shuttle payload commander of STS-107 (Columbia) who was killed when the craft disintegrated after reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.
		Anderson Plaza, the green space in front of the Hixson-Lied Science Center at Creighton University was named after him in a comprimise between the student body, who wanted the Science Center named for Anderson, and the administration who had already sold the naming rights to the Hixson-Lied family.
		From September 1992 to February 1995 he was assigned as an instructor pilot and tactics officer in the 380 Air Refueling Wing, Plattsburgh AFB New York.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_P._Anderson (712 words)

	nasa.php?product_cat_id=18&product_sub_cat_id=24&
		Perhaps one of the most consistently amazing features of the global effort to put humans into outerspace is the originality of space craft design.
		Launch Date: November 28, 1983 at 11:00 AM EST Launch Vehicle: Columbia Crew: Commander: John W. Young, Pilot:Brewster H. Shaw, Mission Specialist: Owen K. Garriott, Dr. Robert A. Parker, Payload Specialists: Dr.
		Landed September 5 at 6:37 AM, PDT at Edwards Air Force Base, CA.
	www.abemblem.com /nasa.php?product_cat_id=18&product_sub_cat_id=24& (3557 words)

	Joe Frasketi's Space Covers - Spacraft to Mars
		Mariner 4 was launched a few weeks later on November 28, 1964 and was the first manmade spacecraft to pass within about 6,000 miles (9,700 kilometers) of Mars after a journey of 228 days.
		Mariner 3 was launched on November 5, 1964 and was lost when its protective shroud failed to eject as the craft was placed into interplanetary space.
		The flight system was launched on a Delta II-7925 launch vehicle which includes a Payload Assist Module (PAM)-D upper stage, from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, December 4, 1996.
	www.spacecovers.com /pricelists/categories/category_mars.htm (1151 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ilan Ramon
		Ilan Ramon (אילן רמון) ( June 20, 1954 - February 1, 2003) was an astronaut and space shuttle payload specialist of STS-107 ( Columbia) who was killed when the craft disintegrated during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.
		Ramon was a Colonel and fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force, with thousands of hours flying experience.
		Ilan Ramon Memorial pages in Israel Science and Technology Directory
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ilan-Ramon (1151 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Titan Launch Report \| Coriolis launched to track ocean winds, solar storms
		Originally slated for December 15, the launch from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base was scrubbed four straight days last year by persistent bad weather, a concern with the system used to deploy the satellite from the rocket and a software issue with the spacecraft.
		The Windsat payload aims to gather wind speed and direction measurements at or near the surface of Earth's seas.
		Coriolis was the largest craft launched by the Titan satellite launchers, which have all flown successfully since 1988.
	www.spaceflightnow.com /titan/g4 (1136 words)

	TIE fighter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The fighter's payload included 6 proton torpedoes, 18 air-deployed mines, or 20,000 plastic leaflets which were used for propaganda missions.
		Contrary to popular belief, the ships did possess ejection seats, as evidenced in Episode V, but the nature of space warfare resulted in pilots preferring to ride their craft to a swift end rather than eject and risk slow death by oxygen starvation.
		A TIE fighter is a fictional starfighter in the Star Wars universe and is the standard Imperial starfighter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/TIE_fighter (1496 words)

	Solar Skiff
		The successful orbital spaceplane of the future will be a hybrid craft sharing the best characteristics of both the spaceship and the airplane, in addition to being its own launch vehicle.
		At the station, the water can be divided into its basic constituents of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, using solar energy, to refuel spacecraft leaving Earth orbit.
		The prime function of the Orbital Skiff will be to ferry passengers and cargo – to include propellant in the form of water – to an orbiting space station.
	www.solarskiff.com /solar.htm (10096 words)

	On the trail of the Scramjet - the Lab - ABC Science Online
		So from a first generation of toxic rockets to a generation of slightly less toxic reusable craft like the Shuttle, now we are turning to the third generation of space lift, in the form of a scramjet.
		The staged Terrier Orion rocket and UQ payload on the launch pad at Woomera.
		As the air thickened, the rocket and the passenger scramjet slowed to Mach 7.6, and more oxygen began to pass through the system.
	www.abc.net.au /science/slab/hyshot (1806 words)

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