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Space Travel and Tourism Glossary
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- circumlunar spaceflight - spaceflights around the moon
- inflatable space habitats - (a.k.a. expandable space structures and inflatable Earth orbiting modules) provide a lot of instant room at low-cost. Bigelow Aerospace is one of the lead companies advancing the technology developed by NASAs (now defunct) inflatable TransHab project.
- International Space Station (ISS) - an artificial structure in low Earth orbit with a capacity for a crew of three. The ISS is jointly run by five multi-national space agencies including the United States, Russia, Japan, Canada and Europe (also indirectly includes Brazil and Italy).
- Kistler rocket -
- low-cost human-rated reusable launch vehicles -
- low Earth orbit (LEO) - typically around 200 - 1200 kilometers
- orbital -
- orbital cities -
- partial orbital spaceflight - a spaceflight to low Earth orbit with deorbiting after less than one full orbit
- rocket-powered racing aircraft -
- Russian Soyuz vehicles -
- Space Shuttle - officially called Space Transportation System (STS) and operated by NASA, it is the first orbital spacecraft designed for partial reusability.
- space stations - an artificial structure designed for humans to live in outer space.
- spaceliners -
- spaceports -
- suborbital flights - peak at an altitude of 100-160 kilometers
- zero-gravity -
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