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| a machine that uses escaping gas to move |
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| American physicist and inventor |
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| the pushing or pulling force exerted by the engine of an aircraft or rocket |
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| the National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
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| The end of world war two marked the beginning of the cold war |
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| a young Ph.D. student whose research was supported by the German military |
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| any human made object placed in orbit around a body in space |
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| the first artificial satellite launched by the soviet union 1957 |
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| was the first satellite of the United States |
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| is defined as a orbit between 160- 2000km |
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| primary purpose is weather imagery |
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| a constellation of 27earth orbiting satellite |
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| used to gather information about distant objects in the solar system |
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| the first manned landing on the moon |
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| launched on July 16, 1969 which carried this man |
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| the world's first reusable space vehicle, the space shuttle |
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| astronaut, first American to orbit the earth |
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| launched Apollo to the moon |
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| first shuttle orbit earth |
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| where they make space probes and satellites to send into orbit |
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| telescope used to convert lens to collect light |
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| a telescope in which a mirror is used to collect and focus light |
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| the range of wave lengths over which electromagnetic radiation extends |
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| used for bettering pictures of space |
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