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Armadillo Aerospace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Armadillo Aerospace was an aerospace startup company based in Mesquite, Texas. Its initial goal was to build a manned suborbital spacecraft capable of space tourism, and had also stated long-term ambitions of orbital spaceflight. The company was founded by John Carmack. On October 24, 2008, Armadillo won $350,000 by succeeding in the Level 1 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. On September 12, 2009, Armadillo won $500,000 by succeeding in Level 2 of the same challenge. In 2010, they were working on a sub-orbital commercial aircraft with Space Adventures. In August 2013, Carmack announced that Armadillo Aerospace had been put in "hibernation mode", following setbacks including the crash of the STIG-B rocket in January 2013. In May 2014, several former employees of Armadillo Aerospace formed a new company, Exos Aerospace, which was created to carry their former company's research into reusable commercial space craft. // Дальше — en.wikipedia.org

X Prize Cup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The X Prize Cup is a two-day air and space exposition which was the result of a partnership between the X Prize Foundation and the State of New Mexico that began in 2004 when the Ansari X-Prize was held. This led to plans to build the world's first true rocket festival. Three X-Prize Cups have been held: in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Each X Prize Cup hosts different events and demonstrations, such as rocket-powered bicycles, rocket jet packs; but particularly notable are the Lunar Lander Challenge and the Space Elevator Games. // Дальше — en.wikipedia.org

Apollo 12 Orbital Photomap

This is a large (5 - 6 meter long, by .75 meter wide) chart that contain the orbital path of the Apollo 12 CSM. Because of its size, and the desire to present as much detail as possible, it is scanned in 48 segments, each 800k to 1.2 megabytes in size. Each scan overlaps adjacent areas, so no detail is lost. Each section is either north or south of the lunar equator, and encompases 15 degrees of longitude, and 20 degrees of latiude. Additionally, a key to the notations on the chart is included. This document was scanned by Frank O'Brien Index to Notations used on the map (.JPG) 5&deg E to 20&deg E, North (.JPG) 5&deg E to 20&deg E, South (.JPG) 20&deg E to 35&deg E, North (.JPG) 20&deg E to 35&deg E, South (.JPG) 35&deg E to 50&deg E, North (.JPG) 35&deg E to 50&deg E, South (.JPG) 50&deg E to 65&deg E, North (.JPG) 50&deg E to 65&deg E, South (.JPG) 65&deg E to 80&deg E, North (.JPG) 65&deg E to 80&deg E, South (.JPG) 80&deg E to 95&deg E, North (.JPG) 80&deg E to 95&deg E, South… // Дальше — history.nasa.gov