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    The Goddard Rocket Launching Site is a National Historic Landmark commemorating the launch site of the world's first successful liquid-fueled rocket. Dr...
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    larger rockets. The launch site is now a National Historic Landmark, the Goddard Rocket Launching Site. Viewers familiar with more modern rocket designs...
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  • constitutes a list of rocket launch sites. Some of these sites are known as spaceports or cosmodromes. A single rocket launch is sufficient for inclusion...
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    Goddard, and Hermann Oberth, each of whom published works proposing rockets as the means for spaceflight. The first successful large-scale rocket programs...
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    Goddard's launch is also commemorated with a small monument, the Goddard Rocket Launching Site, between the first and ninth holes of Pakachoag Golf Course...
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    for a liquid-fueled rocket, what would later be named the Goddard Rocket Launching Site after Robert H. Goddard's series of launch tests starting in 1926...
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    continuous weather record, and the Goddard Rocket Launching Site in Auburn was where rocketry pioneer Robert H. Goddard performed some of his tests. Map...
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    of multiple rocket launching apparatus. In 1815 Alexander Dmitrievich Zasyadko constructed rocket-launching platforms, which allowed rockets to be fired...
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    Flight Facility (WFF) (IATA: WAL, ICAO: KWAL, FAA LID: WAL) is a rocket launch site on Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States...
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    Von Braun used Goddard's plans from various journals and incorporated them into the building of the Aggregate (A) series of rockets, named for the German...
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  • The Vanguard rocket was intended to be the first launch vehicle the United States would use to place a satellite into orbit. Instead, the Sputnik crisis...
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    Orion, built by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility, is also used as an upper stage of sounding rockets, usually paired with a...
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    The Delta rocket family was a versatile range of American rocket-powered expendable launch systems that provided space launch capability in the United...
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    Aggregat (redirect from A3 (rocket))
    "Aggregate-1". Hunley, J.D. (2008). Preludes to U.S. Space-Launch Vehicle Technology: Goddard Rockets to Minuteman III. Gainesville: University Press of Florida...
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    American rocket propulsion pioneer Robert H. Goddard, it is one of ten major NASA field centers. GSFC is partially within the former Goddard census-designated...
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    Japanese H-IIA and H-IIB rockets utilize an MLP when launching from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex. The PSLV, GSLV, and GSLV Mark III rockets utilize an MLP called...
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    Texas, United States called Launch Site One (LS1). In November 2006, the first test vehicle was launched, the Goddard rocket, which reached an altitude...
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  • "Two NASA Sounding Rockets Launch from Alaska During Solar Flare". NASA. 18 April 2024. Retrieved 21 April 2024. https://sites.wff.nasa.gov/code810/news/story298-36...
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  • diameter rocket of SAST". 4 December 2024. Archived from the original on 4 January 2024. Retrieved 4 January 2024. "Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site to debut...
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    (from Ракета-носитель Raketa-nositel', "Carrier Rocket"; Cyrillic: Н1) was a super heavy-lift launch vehicle intended to deliver payloads beyond low Earth...
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    Ariel 1 (category Spacecraft launched in 1962)
    Ariel 1 was planned to launch on the Scout rocket, but the rocket fell behind in development. The decision was made to launch the satellite on the more...
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    A sounding rocket or rocketsonde, sometimes called a research rocket or a suborbital rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements...
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    1960s Titan III-E launching Voyager 2 probe in 1977 from SLC-41 First Delta IV Heavy booster launching from SLC-37 in 2007 Launch of a set of Orbcomm...
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    Wernher von Braun (category German rocket scientists)
    developed themselves. —V-2: The Nazi rocket that launched the space age, BBC, September 2014. In response to Goddard's statements, von Braun said "at no...
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    with the jet powered Charon demonstrator, later using the Goddard demonstrator. Small VTVL rockets were also developed by Masten Space Systems, Armadillo...
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  • Motors for model rockets and high-powered rockets (together, consumer rockets) are classified by total impulse into a set of letter-designated ranges,...
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    payload on the Moon. Goddard began to use liquid propellants in 1921, and in 1926 became the first to launch a liquid-fuelled rocket. Goddard pioneered the use...
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    A multistage rocket or step rocket is a launch vehicle that uses two or more rocket stages, each of which contains its own engines and propellant. A tandem...
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    spaceflight, launch period is the collection of days and launch window is the time period on a given day during which a particular rocket must be launched in order...
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  • has been the launch site for every United States human space flight since 1968. KSC continues to manage and operate uncrewed rocket launch facilities for...
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