The Apollo spacecraft feasibility study was conducted by NASA from July 1960 through May 1961 to investigate preliminary designs for a post-Project Mercury...

administration as a three-person spacecraft to follow the one-person Project Mercury, which put the first Americans in space. Apollo was later dedicated to President...

recovery parachutes are based on the parachutes used on both the Apollo spacecraft and the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters, and constructed of Nomex...

pack the Apollo lunar rover? - collectSPACE: Messages". www.collectspace.com. Retrieved 15 February 2022. "A Field Guide to American Spacecraft | LRV #4"...

target planet to slow down. It was first used on the Apollo program where the returning spacecraft did not enter Earth orbit but instead used a S-shaped...

five Apollo missions to land on the Moon following Apollo 11 (Apollos 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17). Apollo 11 left a smaller package called the Early Apollo Scientific...

Spacecraft operating in the inner Solar System usually rely on the use of power electronics-managed photovoltaic solar panels to derive electricity from...

Ames Arc Jet Complex. Many spacecraft thermal protection systems have been tested in this facility, including the Apollo, space shuttle, and Orion heat...

January 1968, sent seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon. Its primary goal was to demonstrate the feasibility of soft landings on the Moon....

Spacecraft propulsion is any method used to accelerate spacecraft and artificial satellites. In-space propulsion exclusively deals with propulsion systems...

to reject the feasibility studies and proceed with Faget's design, focused on the lunar landing mission. The contract to build Apollo was awarded to...

and heating rates approximately 30 times those experienced by the Apollo spacecraft. It landed via parachute near Woomera, Australia. In relation to the...

launched less than a month after the last Apollo lunar landing. The Proton-K/D launcher put the spacecraft into Earth parking orbit followed by translunar...

studies had demonstrated that the chance of being hit by a meteoroid large enough to destroy a spacecraft was extremely remote. However, a spacecraft...

separately launched Mengzhou spacecraft (formerly known as the next-generation crewed spacecraft, the analog to the Apollo program's Apollo command and service...

Biography portal Physics portal Spaceflight portal Apollo spacecraft feasibility study Yuri Kondratyuk Apollo would take this even further, with a Lander which...

Development Company (better known as the Skunk Works) began a study to determine the feasibility of developing a prototype and operational system. A cooperative...

Spacecraft flight dynamics is the application of mechanical dynamics to model how the external forces acting on a space vehicle or spacecraft determine...

after the conclusion of the Apollo program five decades earlier. It was the first integrated flight test of the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System (SLS)...

Interstellar travel is the hypothetical travel of spacecraft between star systems. Due to the vast distances between the Solar System and nearby stars...

NASA officials who made decisions as manager of the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office in the Apollo program of crewed missions to the Moon. Low was born...

usually spacecraft, into or through outer space, either with or without humans on board. Most spaceflight is uncrewed and conducted mainly with spacecraft such...

the Apollo 12 S-IVB stage. Mission controllers had planned to send Apollo 12's S-IVB into solar orbit after separation from the Apollo spacecraft, but...

with a team led by Alan Stern, the spacecraft was launched in 2006 with the primary mission to perform a flyby study of the Pluto system in 2015, and a...

Girija, AP; et al. (2020). "Feasibility and Mass-Benefit Analysis of Aerocapture for Missions to Venus". Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. 57 (1). American...

Vehicle". In 1966 the US Air Force started a study effort that explored a variety of crewed spacecraft and associated launchers. As the proposals were...

flew: five development flights, and five launches of boilerplate Apollo spacecraft and Pegasus micrometeoroid satellites. Saturn IB – nine launches;...

crew for 14 days inside the spacecraft. Manned Orbiting Laboratory MH-7 space suits for the canceled MOL program. Apollo Block I A1C suit (1966–1967) –...

Determining financial feasibility is best represented through net present value. One requirement needed for financial feasibility is a high return on investment...

attempted to send spacecraft to orbit the Moon, successfully sent one spacecraft to fly by the Moon, and successfully sent one spacecraft to investigate...