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Voskhod (, ''"ascent"'', ''"dawn"'') was a spacecraft built by the Soviet Union's space program for human spaceflight (see Voskhod programme). It was a development of and a follow-on to the Vostok spacecraft. The craft consisted of a spherical descent module (diameter 2.3 meters), which housed...

Homebuilt spacecraft, you don’t see very many of those around. I believe that it would be really cool if a machine could be built that could be driven on the road, flown in the air and could go on and/or underwater.

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Voskhod spacecraft - Introduction

Voskhod (, ””ascent””, ””dawn””) was a spacecraft built by the Soviet Union’s space program for human spaceflight (see Voskhod programme). It was a development of and a follow-on to the Vostok spacecraft. The craft consisted of a spherical descent module ...

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Zarya spacecraft - Introduction

Zarya spacecraft was a major project of the late 1980s aiming to design and build a much larger replacement for the Soyuz spacecraft. After the project was shelved in January 1989, for financial reasons, the name was reused for Zarya ...

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Fractionated spacecraft - Introduction

fractionated spacecraft is a satellite architecture where the functional capabilities of a conventional monolithic spacecraft are distributed across multiple modules which interact through wireless links. Unlike other aggregations of spacecraft, such as constellations and formations, the modules of a fractionated ...

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Homebuilt Spacecraft - a dream or reality?

Homebuilt spacecraft, you don’t see very many of those around. I believe that it would be really cool if a machine could be built that could be driven on the road, flown in the air and could go on and/or ...

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TKS spacecraft - Introduction

TKS spacecraft was designed by Vladimir Chelomei as a manned spacecraft launched with Proton rocket alternative to the Soyuz spacecraft to supply the military Almaz space station. Development began in 1965, but by the time the first flight articles were ...

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TKS spacecraft - Design

The TKS spacecraft consisted of an 11F74 “Vozvraschaemyi Apparat” (or ”Return Vehicle” commonly referred to as the ”VA”), attached to an 11F77 “Transportniy Korabl Snabzheniya” (”Functional/Cargo Block” module or ”FGB”). TKS VA The TKS VA was itself a very compact ...

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Cygnus spacecraft - Introduction

Cygnus spacecraft is an unmanned resupply spacecraft being developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation as part of NASA’s COTS project. They are designed to transport supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) after the retirement of the Space Shuttle. Since August ...

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Robotic spacecraft - Introduction

Adapted from the Wikipedia article Robotic spacecraft, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

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Shuguang spacecraft - Introduction

Shuguang One (Chinese: 曙光一号), meaning “dawn” in Mandarin, also known as Project 714 (Chinese：七一四工程), was the first manned spacecraft proposed by the People’s Republic of China during the late 1960s and early 70s that was never built. The design was ...

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Spacecraft - Manned Spacecraft

Orbital Transport Soviet/Russian *Vostok Spacecraft *Voskhod Spacecraft *Shuttle Buran *Soyuz Spacecraft American *Mercury Spacecraft *Gemini Spacecraft *Apollo Spacecraft *Space Shuttle Chinese *Shenzhou Spacecraft Spacestation *Salyut *Skylab *Mir *International Space Station Other *Manned Maneuvering Unit—world’s smallest manned spacecraft Suborbital *X-15 suborbital ...

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Spacecraft - Unmanned Spacecraft

Soft landing capsule (NASA) ; Semi-manned or manned-spec unmanned spacecraft *Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)—unmanned European cargo spacecraft *Buran manned-spec Soviet shuttle (one mission only) *H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV)—unmanned Japanese cargo spacecraft *Progress—unmanned USSR/Russia cargo spacecraft *TKS—manned-spec unmanned USSR cargo spacecraft ...

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Attitude - What Controlling a Spacecraft Can Teach Us About Controlling Our Own

Attitude in a spacecraft is its position in 3 dimensional space. The attitude of the spacecraft determines whether it completes its mission. Attitude adjustments are made by thrusters to keep solar panels pointed at the sun or instruments pointed at ...