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  2. Advanced Crew Escape Suit - Wikipedia

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    The Advanced Crew Escape Suit (ACES), or "pumpkin suit", [2] is a full pressure suit that Space Shuttle crews began wearing after STS-65, for the ascent and entry portions of flight. The suit is a direct descendant of the U.S. Air Force high-altitude pressure suits worn by the two-man crews of the SR-71 Blackbird, pilots of the U-2 and X-15 ...

  3. Fifth-wheel coupling - Wikipedia

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    The fifth-wheel coupling provides the link between a semi-trailer and the towing truck, tractor unit, leading trailer or dolly. The coupling consists of a kingpin, a 2-or- -inch-diameter (50.8 or 88.9 mm) vertical steel pin protruding from the bottom of the front of the semi-trailer, and a horseshoe-shaped coupling device called a fifth wheel ...

  4. Mercury-Atlas 9 - Wikipedia

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    Mercury-Atlas 9 was the final crewed space mission of the U.S. Mercury program, launched on May 15, 1963, from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.The spacecraft, named Faith 7, completed 22 Earth orbits before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, piloted by astronaut Gordon Cooper, then a United States Air Force major.

  5. Sky crane (landing system) - Wikipedia

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    Instead, a landing system that combines parachutes and sky crane was developed. Sky crane is a platform with eight engines that lowers the rover on three nylon tethers until the soft landing. EDL begins when the spacecraft reaches the top of the Martian atmosphere. Engineers have referred to the time it takes to land on Mars as the "seven ...

  6. Crew Dragon Demo-2 - Wikipedia

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    Crew Dragon Demo-2. Crew Dragon Demo-2 (officially Crew Demo-2, SpaceX Demo-2, or Demonstration Mission-2) [a] was the first crewed test flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft. The spacecraft, named Endeavour, launched on 30 May 2020 [7][11][12] on a Falcon 9 rocket, and carried NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International ...

  7. STS-4 - Wikipedia

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    STS-4 was the fourth NASA Space Shuttle mission, and also the fourth for Space Shuttle Columbia. Crewed by Ken Mattingly and Henry Hartsfield, the mission launched on June 27, 1982, [1] and landed a week later on July 4, 1982. [2] Due to parachute malfunctions, the SRBs were not recovered. STS-4 was the final test flight for the Space Shuttle ...

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