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  2. Single-person spacecraft - Wikipedia

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    A single-person spacecraft is a vehicle designed for space travel. [1] The concept has been used in science fiction and actual ships [1] such as the Mercury capsule, Vostok and some suborbital designs. Single-person spacecraft have been envisioned as a supplement or replacement for space suits in certain applications. The Von Braun Bottle suit ...

  3. Bioastronautics - Wikipedia

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    The one-room facility provides a collection of textbooks, reference books, conference proceedings, and academic journals related to bioastronautics topics. [4] Because the library is located within secure government property (not part of Space Center Houston , the official visitors center of JSC), it is not generally accessible to the public.

  4. Human spaceflight - Wikipedia

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    Replica of the Vostok space capsule, which carried the first human into orbit, at Technik Museum Speyer Mercury space capsule, which carried the first Americans into orbit, on display at the Astronaut Hall of Fame, Titusville, Florida North American X-15, hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft, which reached the edge of space Neil Armstrong, one of the first two people to land on the Moon and the ...

  5. Animals in space - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 February 2025. Miss Baker, a squirrel monkey, rode a Jupiter IRBM (scale model of rocket shown) into space in 1959. Landmarks for animals in space 1947: First animals in space (fruit flies) 1949: First primate and first mammal in space 1950: First mouse in space 1951: First dogs in space 1957: First ...

  6. Panspermia - Wikipedia

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    that organic molecules originated in space (perhaps to be distributed to Earth) [14] that life originated from these molecules, extraterrestrially [8] that this extraterrestrial life was transported to Earth. [19] The creation and distribution of organic molecules from space is now uncontroversial; it is known as pseudo-panspermia. The jump ...

  7. Astrobiology - Wikipedia

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    Nucleic acids may not be the only biomolecules in the universe capable of coding for life processes. [1]Astrobiology (also xenology or exobiology) is a scientific field within the life and environmental sciences that studies the origins, early evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe by investigating its deterministic conditions and contingent events. [2]

  8. Space capsule - Wikipedia

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    A space capsule is a spacecraft designed to transport cargo, scientific experiments, and/or astronauts to and from space. [1] Capsules are distinguished from other spacecraft by the ability to survive reentry and return a payload to the Earth's surface from orbit or sub-orbit, and are distinguished from other types of recoverable spacecraft by their blunt shape, not having wings and often ...

  9. Life-support system - Wikipedia

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    The Space Shuttle was the first American spacecraft to have an Earth-like atmospheric mixture, comprising 22% oxygen and 78% nitrogen. [5] For the Space Shuttle, NASA includes in the ECLSS category systems that provide both life support for the crew and environmental control for payloads.