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30 Questions

Which side of Europa is which?

How did NASA refer to dates and times of a mission in the 1970s?

How quickly could we detect a change in a mascon?

How much resolution did gravitational maps of Earth have before GRACE?

Earliest gravitational map of a planet/moon?

Threefold-symmetry in non-landing spacecraft?

Would astronauts need a heat shield to land on Titan from orbital speeds?

When did we stop getting transmissions from Huygens?

First sounding rocket to reach the mesosphere?

What exactly did the Outer Planets Panel say in their recommendation for outer planets missions?

Which heavenly bodies have stuff to make rocket fuel?

Is there any evidence that NASA was worried about deep lunar dust?

What are these devices? [closed]

Do you need a heat shield to enter the atmosphere from non-orbital speeds?

Why does the ascent stage of Apollo 11's lunar module look like it's made of paper?

Were there significant instances of cooperation during the Space Race?

What are non-rocket-based reaction mass drives called?

Why would orbital fuel depots make sense?

Espionage in the Space Race

How did they test early spacesuits in a vacuum?

Text of John Houbolt's letter proposing Lunar Orbit Rendezvous for Apollo?

How seriously did astronomers take the idea of a hollow Phobos?

Why would we ever build a base on the surface of a planet?

What kind of engine uses water as a propellant?

Did NASA ever use astronomical symbols for planets?

Does the radiation danger in interplanetary space decrease the further you get from the sun?

Could a ship take off from Earth using ion thrusters?

How to calculate delta-v required for a planet-to-planet Hohmann transfer?

Did NASA use metric units for the Mercury missions?

Why did Apollo 11 need someone to stay behind in lunar orbit?