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Encyclopedia Astronautica
Website on space topics up to 2019
"Astronautix" redirects here. For a branch of aerospace, see astronautics.
The Encyclopedia Astronautica is a reference web site on space travel.
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The encyclopedia includes 79,433 articles with 13,741 illustrations, a comprehensive catalog of missiles, spacecraft, space technology, astronauts, and spaceflight from most countries that have had an active rocket research program.
It provides biographies of important pioneers of spaceflight such as Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Hermann OberthRobert Goddard. It outlines various concepts of space stations including the NASA Space Shuttle and the Soviet Buran programme.
Articles
In addition, the encyclopedia contains many comprehensive review articles on specific space topics, among them:
- Germany[1] incl. an extensive list of German missile specialists who worked for USA, USSR and France after World War II.
- Russia - Early Ballistic Missiles[2] w