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What exactly is the rockoon niche? When are they preferable to normal rockets and vice versa? When ought rockoons to be used?

answered Mar 9, 2021 at 15:39

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What effect (if any) would leaving the cargo bay doors open have had during a shuttle reentry?

answered Jun 24, 2018 at 1:57

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Does the International Space Station get TV?

answered Oct 2, 2018 at 3:56

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Does Sunlight have a range?

answered Jun 10, 2017 at 14:31

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Could waste methane be recycled as propellant on the ISS?

answered Aug 11, 2013 at 15:17

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Why did Apollo mission numbering skip 2,3,4,5 and 6?

answered Mar 8, 2015 at 5:46

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What is feathering?

answered Mar 23, 2015 at 2:58

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Why is 28 V a common nominal spacecraft bus voltage?

answered Apr 11, 2015 at 0:20

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Why does data transfer rate decrease with distance

answered Jan 12, 2015 at 2:48

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Why does the ISS track appear to be sinusoidal?

answered Oct 8, 2016 at 14:18

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Is the SpaceX Falcon Heavy payload (a Tesla car) space junk?

answered Feb 11, 2018 at 18:38

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Could a steam engine work on the moon?

answered Jul 26, 2020 at 21:30

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Can Voyager 1 reach the Andromeda Galaxy?

answered Nov 13, 2021 at 22:41

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What would happen if you jumped out of a moving spacecraft?

answered May 30, 2020 at 16:12

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Do they actually regularly send out people with space ships to spacewalk out and fix broken satellites?

answered Dec 19, 2019 at 19:07

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How does a Spacecraft change its orbit?

answered Oct 29, 2019 at 2:39

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Magnetic force-driven propulsion system for an interplanetary/interstellar spacecraft

answered Aug 25, 2019 at 15:44

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How do we know the Apollo Moon landings are real?

answered Oct 17, 2018 at 0:56

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Why is the Apollo LEM ladder so far from the ground?

answered Jul 30, 2019 at 0:01

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How is foot-pounds of energy defined?

answered Aug 5, 2019 at 22:03

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The Moon's shadow could not possibly look like this — could it?

answered Jul 23, 2017 at 18:48

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Atmosphere on the Moon

answered Oct 26, 2016 at 0:59

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g-forces of suborbital versus orbital passenger travel

answered Sep 30, 2017 at 0:55

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Isometrics in zero gravity

answered Jul 3, 2016 at 20:38

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Life on Earth previous to us

answered May 29, 2014 at 1:42

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Methods for propulsion other than rockets for leaving Earth's atmosphere?

answered Jun 1, 2014 at 15:46

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Why was Curiosity rover's landing site an ellipse?

answered Nov 24, 2013 at 5:13

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What limits the speed of space probes currently?

answered Apr 9, 2014 at 1:13

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Why are spacecraft computers obsolete at launch?

answered Aug 6, 2013 at 23:56

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How does centripetal force produce artificial gravity

answered Sep 29, 2015 at 23:57

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What exactly is the rockoon niche? When are they preferable to normal rockets and vice versa? When ought rockoons to be used?

What effect (if any) would leaving the cargo bay doors open have had during a shuttle reentry?

Does the International Space Station get TV?

Does Sunlight have a range?

Could waste methane be recycled as propellant on the ISS?

Why did Apollo mission numbering skip 2,3,4,5 and 6?

What is feathering?

Why is 28 V a common nominal spacecraft bus voltage?

Why does data transfer rate decrease with distance

Why does the ISS track appear to be sinusoidal?

Is the SpaceX Falcon Heavy payload (a Tesla car) space junk?

Could a steam engine work on the moon?

Can Voyager 1 reach the Andromeda Galaxy?

What would happen if you jumped out of a moving spacecraft?

Do they actually regularly send out people with space ships to spacewalk out and fix broken satellites?

How does a Spacecraft change its orbit?

Magnetic force-driven propulsion system for an interplanetary/interstellar spacecraft

How do we know the Apollo Moon landings are real?

Why is the Apollo LEM ladder so far from the ground?

How is foot-pounds of energy defined?

The Moon's shadow could not possibly look like this — could it?

Atmosphere on the Moon

g-forces of suborbital versus orbital passenger travel

Isometrics in zero gravity

Life on Earth previous to us

Methods for propulsion other than rockets for leaving Earth's atmosphere?

Why was Curiosity rover's landing site an ellipse?

What limits the speed of space probes currently?

Why are spacecraft computers obsolete at launch?

How does centripetal force produce artificial gravity