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2. NASA's Space Place - Wikipedia

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   The Space Place program produces a monthly kids column about space that is run in many newspapers nationwide and contributes a monthly newsletter column to numerous astronomy clubs. The program also distributes educational materials to museum partners across the United States. [11] These museums feature the materials in public displays.

3. Spacecraft - Wikipedia

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   Spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including communications, Earth observation, meteorology, navigation, space colonization, planetary exploration, and transportation of humans and cargo. All spacecraft except single-stage-to-orbit vehicles cannot get into space on their own, and require a launch vehicle (carrier rocket).

4. List of artificial objects leaving the Solar System - Wikipedia

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   One estimated timescale as to the likelihood of the Pioneer or Voyager spacecraft colliding with a star (or stellar remnant) is 10 20 (100 quintillion) years. [35] [36] They are very unlikely, however, to gain enough velocity to escape the Milky Way galaxy [35] (or its future merger with the Andromeda galaxy) into intergalactic space.

5. Spacecraft design - Wikipedia

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   The payload and spacecraft bus may be different units or it may be a combined one. The booster adapter provides the load-carrying interface with the vehicle (payload and spacecraft bus together). The spacecraft may also have a propellant load, which is used to drive or push the vehicle upwards, and a propulsion kick stage.

6. List of missions to the outer planets - Wikipedia

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   Montage of planets and some moons that the two Voyager spacecraft have visited and studied. It is the only program that visited all four outer planets. A total of nine spacecraft have been launched on missions that involve visits to the outer planets; all nine missions involve encounters with Jupiter, with four spacecraft also visiting Saturn.

7. Lander (spacecraft) - Wikipedia

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   A lander is a spacecraft that descends towards, then comes to rest on the surface of an astronomical body other than Earth. [1] [page needed] In contrast to an impact probe, which makes a hard landing that damages or destroys the probe upon reaching the surface, a lander makes a soft landing after which the probe remains functional.