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This article is about directly landing on the Moon or other body. For direct injection, see Parking orbit.
Direct ascent is a method of landing a spacecraft on the Moon or another planetary surface directly, without first assembling the vehicle in Earth orbit, or carrying a separate landing vehicle into orbit around the target body. It was proposed as the first method to achieve a crewed lunar landing in the United States Apollo program, but was rejected because it would have required developing a prohibitively large launch vehicle.
Directascent is a method of landing a spacecraft on the Moon or another planetary surface directly, without first assembling the vehicle in Earth orbit...
technology and astronaut skill. Four possible mission modes were considered: DirectAscent: The spacecraft would be launched as a unit and travel directly to the...
attempts all flew directly to the surface without a lunar orbit. Such directascents use a minimum amount of fuel for uncrewed spacecraft on a one-way trip...
environment is where the diver enters a region from which there is no direct, purely vertical ascent to the safety of breathable atmosphere at the surface. Cave...
The modern incarnations of the ASM-135 ASAT program are the so-called direct-ascent anti-satellite weapons. These weapons are usually either ballistic or...
Most bushwalkers with minimal or no climbing gear take the exposed 'DirectAscent' scramble from the Southern Traverse of the peak above a drop of 600...
up ascent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ascent or The Ascent may refer to: Ascent (magazine), an independent, not-for-profit magazine Ascent (journal)...
Moon atop a landing rocket stage and return all three astronauts on a direct-ascent mission, which would not use a separate lunar module, and thus had no...
party and a fall of icicles from above warned them to return to the direct line of ascent, and the traverse back to the Lion ridge was one of the greatest...
Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. and Richard F. Gordon Jr. performed the first direct-ascent (first orbit) rendezvous with an Agena Target Vehicle, docking with...
The Subaru Ascent is a mid-size crossover SUV produced by Subaru. In some markets, it is sold as the Subaru Evoltis. It is the largest automobile Subaru...
An emergency ascent is an ascent to the surface by a diver in an emergency. More specifically, it refers to any of several procedures for reaching the...
000 pounds (45,000 kg)) to be sent to the Moon. If this were done by directascent (on a single launch vehicle), the rocket required would have to be extremely...
Moon mission: Earth orbit rendezvous (EOR), directascent, and lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR). A directascent configuration would require an extremely large...
World War I LK II, a German light tank of World War I LK-700, a Soviet directascent lunar lander program proposed in 1964 The LK, a Swedish indie band Sri...
which provides an easy and directascent to the summit and was the route taken by António de Saldanha on the first recorded ascent of the mountain in 1503...
The Ascent of Man is a 13-part British documentary television series produced by the BBC and Time-Life Films first broadcast in 1973. It was written and...
environment is where the diver enters a space from which there is no direct, purely vertical ascent to the safety of breathable atmosphere at the surface. Cave...
orbit with a single astronaut. The original plan for Apollo was for directascent, similar to Lunex. Lunex Lunar Lander Crew Size: 3 Length: 16.16 m (53...
Geosynchronous Interplanetary Interstellar Intergalactic Space launch Directascent Escape velocity Expendable and reusable launch systems Launch pad Non-rocket...
and crucial decision was choosing lunar orbit rendezvous over both directascent and Earth orbit rendezvous. A space rendezvous is an orbital maneuver...