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- The European Space Agency (ESA) is a 22-member intergovernmental body devoted to space exploration. With its headquarters in Paris and a staff of around...121 KB (10,056 words) - 13:16, 26 July 2024
- Any planet is an extremely faint light source compared to its parent star. For example, a star like the Sun is about a billion times as bright as the reflected...134 KB (15,196 words) - 07:14, 30 July 2024
- The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was a United States federal agency that was founded on March 3, 1915, to undertake, promote, and...29 KB (2,809 words) - 09:46, 5 July 2024
- A Mars landing is a landing of a spacecraft on the surface of Mars. Of multiple attempted Mars landings by robotic, uncrewed spacecraft, ten have had successful...33 KB (3,598 words) - 01:52, 28 July 2024
- Hayabusa (Japanese: はやぶさ, "Peregrine falcon") was a robotic spacecraft developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to return a sample of...66 KB (6,679 words) - 18:11, 3 August 2024
- An Earth analog, also called an Earth analogue, Earth twin, or second Earth, is a planet or moon with environmental conditions similar to those found on...38 KB (3,892 words) - 17:07, 17 May 2024
- The colonization of Venus has been a subject of many works of science fiction since before the dawn of spaceflight, and is still discussed from both a...18 KB (1,990 words) - 19:20, 22 July 2024
- Thuban (/ˈθjuːbæn/), with Bayer designation Alpha Draconis or α Draconis, is a binary star system in the northern constellation of Draco. A relatively...15 KB (1,387 words) - 12:57, 14 June 2024
- Yang Liwei (Chinese: 杨利伟; born 21 June 1965) is a Chinese major general, former military pilot, and former taikonaut of the People's Liberation Army. In...16 KB (1,599 words) - 18:22, 7 May 2024
- In the Shadow of the Moon is a 2007 British documentary film about the United States' crewed missions to the Moon. After premiering at the 2007 Sundance...9 KB (838 words) - 20:53, 12 July 2024
- AMSAT-OSCAR-40, also known as AO-40 or simply OSCAR 40, was the on-orbit designation of an amateur radio satellite of the OSCAR series. Prior to launch...6 KB (930 words) - 02:49, 27 February 2023
- HD 154345 b is a Jupiter-mass extrasolar planet orbiting the star HD 154345. Wright et al. discovered the planet in March 2006 using the radial velocity...8 KB (616 words) - 02:02, 28 November 2023