The Complete Book of Spaceflight: From Apollo 1 to Zero Gravity
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LDEF (Long Duration Exposure Facility)<br />

life support<br />

light flash phenomenon<br />

lithium hydroxide<br />

loading<br />

Lovelace, William Randolph, II<br />

(1883–1968)<br />

negative g<br />

OFO (Orbiting Frog O<strong>to</strong>lith)<br />

oxygen, regenerative<br />

pho<strong>to</strong>synthetic gas exchanger<br />

physiological acceleration<br />

physiological fac<strong>to</strong>rs<br />

planetary protection test<br />

positive g<br />

prone g<br />

propulsion<br />

radiation protection in space<br />

rocket sled<br />

space equivalence<br />

space medicine<br />

space motion sickness (SMS)<br />

space survival<br />

spacesuit<br />

Pre-<strong>Apollo</strong> Wardrobe<br />

Suited for the Moon<br />

Shuttle and ISS Garb<br />

Russian Spacesuits<br />

stapp<br />

Stapp, John Paul (1910–1999)<br />

stressed limits<br />

Strughold, Hubertus (1898–1987)<br />

supine g<br />

suspended animation<br />

transverse acceleration<br />

Space mission terminology<br />

abort<br />

alternate mission<br />

astrodynamics<br />

boost<br />

boost phase<br />

CAPCOM<br />

coasting flight<br />

cruise phase<br />

cut<strong>of</strong>f<br />

descent path<br />

direct flight<br />

docking<br />

downrange<br />

flight pr<strong>of</strong>ile<br />

ground-track<br />

hard landing<br />

housekeeping<br />

injection<br />

midcourse<br />

mission control center<br />

mission pr<strong>of</strong>ile<br />

picket ship<br />

powered landing<br />

recovery<br />

rendezvous<br />

separation<br />

shutdown. See cut<strong>of</strong>f<br />

s<strong>of</strong>t landing<br />

<strong>to</strong>uchdown<br />

Space planes and lifting bodies<br />

ASSET (Aerothermodynamic Elastic<br />

Structural Systems Environmental<br />

Tests)<br />

Bantam-X<br />

boost glider<br />

Delta Clipper<br />

Dyna-Soar (Dynamic Soaring Vehicle)<br />

Hermes<br />

HOPE (H-2 Orbital Plane)<br />

HOTOL (Horizontal Take<strong>of</strong>f and Landing<br />

vehicle)<br />

lifting body<br />

M-2 (American lifting body)<br />

MUSTARD (Multi-Unit Space Transport<br />

and Recovery Device)<br />

National Aerospace Plane (NASP). See X-<br />

30<br />

PRIME (Precision Recovery Including<br />

Maneuvering Entry)<br />

Skylon<br />

space plane<br />

START (Spacecraft Technology and<br />

Advanced Reentry Test)<br />

VentureStar. See X-33<br />

X-20. See Dyna-Soar<br />

X-23. See PRIME<br />

X-24<br />

X-33<br />

X-37A/X-40<br />

X-38<br />

X-43A<br />

Space Shuttle<br />

Atlantis<br />

Challenger<br />

Columbia<br />

Discovery<br />

Endeavour<br />

Enterprise<br />

Eureca (European Retrievable Carrier)<br />

Get-Away Special<br />

grapple<br />

Gulfstream<br />

Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF)<br />

Remote Manipula<strong>to</strong>r System (RMS)<br />

Space Shuttle<br />

His<strong>to</strong>ry<br />

External Tank (ET)<br />

Orbiter<br />

Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs)<br />

Space Shuttle Main Engines<br />

(SSME)<br />

Space Transportation System (STS)<br />

Spacehab<br />

Category Index 535<br />

Spacelab<br />

SPAS (Space Shuttle Pallet Satellite)<br />

Space stations<br />

ACRV (Assured Crew Return Vehicle)<br />

AERCam (Au<strong>to</strong>nomous Extravehicular<br />

Robotic Camera)<br />

Big Gemini<br />

Canadarm. See Remote Manipula<strong>to</strong>r System<br />

Inspec<strong>to</strong>r<br />

International Space Station (ISS)<br />

International Contributions<br />

Prelude <strong>to</strong> ISS: <strong>The</strong> Shuttle-Mir Program<br />

<strong>The</strong> ISS Takes Shape<br />

Major ISS Components and Servicing<br />

Equipment<br />

Manned Orbiting Labora<strong>to</strong>ry (MOL)<br />

Mir<br />

Kvant (1987)<br />

Kvant 2 (1989)<br />

Kristall (1990)<br />

Spektr (1995)<br />

Priroda (1996)<br />

MORL (Manned Orbiting Research Labora<strong>to</strong>ry)<br />

Progress<br />

Salyut<br />

His<strong>to</strong>ry<br />

Salyut 1<br />

Salyut 2<br />

DOS 3<br />

Salyut 3<br />

Salyut 4<br />

Salyut 5<br />

Salyut 6<br />

Salyut 7<br />

Skylab<br />

Skylab 1<br />

Skylab 2<br />

Skylab 3<br />

Skylab 4<br />

Epilogue: Skylab’s Return<br />

space station<br />

Space tethers and eleva<strong>to</strong>rs<br />

PMG (Plasma Mo<strong>to</strong>r Genera<strong>to</strong>r)<br />

SEDS (Small Expendable-tether<br />

Deployer System)<br />

space eleva<strong>to</strong>r<br />

space tether<br />

TiPS (Tether Physics and Survivability<br />

Satellite)<br />

TSS (Tethered Satellite System)<br />

Spacecraft and launch vehicle<br />

components<br />

adapter skirt<br />

airlock<br />

bus

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