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... 1950s, they developed the Redstone rocket, the U.S.'s first ballistic missile. In turn, this team was responsible for the modified Redstone known as the Jupiter-C with upper stage that ... April 1961, was a member of the R-7 family of rockets. ref 13 In sum, the R-7 and the Jupiter-C, the world's first satellite launchers, and the MR ... classify or describe ''all ''the membership in general, such as “the amateur group,” “the rocket engineers,” “the rocket enthusiasts,” “the Raketenflugplatz enthusiasts,” or simply, “the enthusiasts,” although in truth, there were hundreds ...

... did von Pirquet continue his work on routes to Jupiter, but there is an article, evidently by Winkler, on “The Cost of Rocket Propulsion?” (for both terrestrial and potential spaceflight applications), but ... ,” Die Rakete, 15 November-December 1929, pp. 123-124; Ley, ''Rockets, Missiles'', p. 131; David Baker, ''The Rocket - The History and Development of Rocket & Missiles Technology'' (Crown Publishers, Inc.: New York, 1978), p ...

... crush a human. Like the other gas giant outer planets, Jupiter has no solid surface. A Galileo probe, released into Jupiter's atmosphere, lasted for just under an hour and traveled 93 ... descend, it likely melted and vaporized in the extreme heat. In addition, the radiation near Jupiter is at least 25 times more powerful than the dose considered deadly to humans. ---- Answer ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - JUPITER

... Voyager, Galileo, and Cassini space probes captured the best images we have of Jupiter. This dramatic view of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and its surroundings was obtained by Voyager 1 on February 25, 1979, when the spacecraft was5.7 million miles from Jupiter. Cloud details as small as 100 miles across can be seen here. The wavy cloud ... is a region of extraordinarily complex and variable wave motion. To give a sense of Jupiter's scale, the white oval storm directly below the Great Red Spot is approximately the ...

... country in the late 1920s. He well knew of the rocket stunts---including rocket cars and rocket-propelled gilders (utilizing solid-propellant gunpowder rockets of the day)--of the automobile magnate and “sportsman” ... Vanguard propulsion section. As matters turned out, though, a modified Redstone missile known as the Jupiter-C, with upper stages, launched the U.S.’s first satellite, Explorer 1, on ...

... of rockets, including: a. liquid-fueled chemical rockets b. solid-fueled chemical rockets c. hybrid-fuel rockets d. steam rockets e. cold gas rockets f. electric thermal rockets g. solar thermal rockets h. nuclear thermal rockets i. ... and return. Near Mars the sunlight intensity is half that at Earth, and at Jupiter it is only four percent that at Earth. Nuclear reactors have plenty of specific ...

... year and six months. The Pioneer 10 probe, launched in March of 1972, arrived at Jupiter in December of 1973, traveling for a year and nine months. The Cassini mission, launched in October of 1997, did not arrive at Jupiter until December of 2000, traveling for over three years. The Galileo spacecraft, launched in October of 1989, finally arrived at Jupiter in December of 1995, taking well over six years to arrive. ---- Answer provided by Laura ...

... smoke-like dust particles knocked from its moons by meteor impacts. An outer ring, circling Jupiter backwards, also exists. The ring's origin is uncertain, but it might be composed of interplanetary dust captured by Jupiter's gravity pull. ---- Answer provided by Laura Peckyno & Robert Peckyno Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question ...

... "family portrait," a composite of the Jovian system, includes the edge of Jupiter with its Great Red Spot, and Jupiter's four largest moons, also known as the Galilean satellites. From top ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - JUPITER

... Cassini mission (1999). The Galileo orbiter is the only mission to actually orbit the planet Jupiter, studying the planet for seven years from 1995 until 2003. There are two future probes, Juno and JIMO, which are planned to study Jupiter after 2010. ---- Answer provided by Laura Peckyno & Robert Peckyno Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and ...

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