Astronautics
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astronautics-235-9388545
title:
Astronautics
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Astronautics is the practice of sending spacecraft beyond Earth's atmosphere into outer space. Spaceflight is one of its main applications and space science is its overarching field. The term astronautics was coined in the 1920s by J.-H. Rosny, president of the Goncourt academy, in analogy with aeronautics. Because there is a degree of technical overlap between the two fields, the term aerospace is often used to describe both at once. In 1930, Robert Esnault-Pelterie published the first book on
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Theory and practice of navigation beyond the Earth's atmosphere
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronautics
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2024-03-01T06:06:12Z
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