NAME
Acme::MetaSyntactic::space_missions - The space missions theme
DESCRIPTION
This theme lists the names of various space missions flights.
- Apollo
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As from Apollo 9, the command and lunar modules of Project Apollo were given radio call signs. This list document them.
Source: A Man on the Moon, by Andrew Chaikin.
- Mercury
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This list gives the names of the six Mercury spacecraft, plus the name of the flight cancelled when Deke Slayton was grounded for health reasons.
Source: The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe.
- Manned Spacecraft
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This list gives the names of the manned spacecraft, all nations and all agencies or firms combined.
- Launch Vehicles
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This list gives the names of launch vehicles type. For vehicles with several numbered subtypes, only the main type has been given, without the subtype number (which gives one-letter names for Japanese launch vehicles).
Source: The list of launch vehicles is taken from the colour photos from Rocket Science, Alfred J. Zaehringer, Apogee (ISBN 1-894959-09-4). To this book, I have added http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_launch_vehicles and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_Composites_White_Knight.
- Victims
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This list gives the names of the humans who were killed in a spacecraft accident.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Space_program_fatalities http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_disaster.
CONTRIBUTOR
Jean Forget
Introduced in Acme-MetaSyntactic version 0.41 as apollo, published on September 26, 2005.
Augmented with other space missions and renamed space_missions in version 0.86, published on August 7, 2006.
Updated with themes manned_spacecraft, launch_vehicles and victims in version 0.88, published on August 21, 2006.
Received its own version number for Acme-MetaSyntactic-Themes version 1.000, published on May 7, 2012.