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Acme::MetaSyntactic::space_missions.3pm

Langue: en

Version: 2006-11-05 (mandriva - 01/05/08)

Section: 3 (Bibliothèques de fonctions)

Acme::MetaSyntactic::space_missions - The space missions theme

This theme lists the names of various space missions flights.

Apollo: 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: 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: This list gives the names of the manned spacecraft, all nations and all agencies or firms combined.
Launch Vehicles: 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: 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>.

Jean Forget

Introduced in 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.