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Sprockets, chains, and gears question
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Aerodynamic Forces on 6' x 3' plate at 45 degrees - 70 MPH?
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Rocket Engine: Centripetal Force to Vector thrust
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Equation of the camber of a sail
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Parts of the design of an aircraft that affect the pitching moment
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NASA Is There Life on Europa? NASA's Study on the Upcoming Lander Mission
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Could a Stealth ICBM be a Covert Terrorist Threat?
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NASA Test Your NASA Knowledge - Comments
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Is a 2D Fluid Flow Simulator Useful for Learning Basic Fluid Dynamics?
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Do all airfoils (infinite wing) have a flow separation?
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Hobby rocket engine experiments
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New rocket engine may enable trips to Mars
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RIP Gene Cernan, last astronaut on the moon
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Helicopters and operational height limits
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SpaceX Investigating the SpaceX Rocket Explosion of September 1, 2016
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Catia, measuring just the horizontal distance in side view
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Mechanical parts of a jet engine
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Determining the sign of control derivatives
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Aircraft Propeller Blast velocity while in motion
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Impulse and step response related to the angular position of a spacecraft
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Magnus effect in flettner rotor
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Designing an Electric Aircraft: Testing Motor+Airfoil Configurations
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What's it like to fly a satellite?
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SpaceX SpaceX rocket: Explosion at Kennedy Space Center
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Best Way to measure Relativistic Rocket Acceleration?
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If an astronaut were to die in space, what would they do wit
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Perturbation Methods + Airfoils
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Reynolds number & Mach number for flow regime
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Pendulum fallacy - hovering rockets, still applies?
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Artificial gravity concept -- Rotating structure in space
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How is shear stress related to shear rate in aerodynamic applications?
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How are Flight Data Recorders built?
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Have we been able to land a rocket upright?
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Do astronauts watch satellite TV in space?
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Can Multi-Wing Aircraft Designs Improve Lift and Efficiency?
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SpaceX Critiques on SpaceX Technology: A Closer Look at the Engineering Factors
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SpaceX SpaceX: Interplanetary Transport System
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NASA Possible Water Plumes Detected on Jupiter's Moon Europa
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Books on structures of rockets and spacecraft?
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How do fluids behave in a space centrifugal structure (artificial gravity)
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What is the origin and meaning of the word rocket?
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Getting Started with ANSYS APDL: Resources for Beginners
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NASA NASA discovers new exoplanet (The Onion, funny)
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Propulsion by Cosmic Particle Deflection: A New Idea?
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SpaceX SpaceX: Another Falcon 9 ground pad landing
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Mechanical Space Propulsion. Why isn't this possible?
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Importing Mechanical Apdl geometry in Ansys Workbench
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Calculation of mass flow rate of 50MW
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Discover Post Stall Airfoil Data for High-Angle-of-Attack Calculations
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Topic: Hydraulic Fluids in Aviation
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How does Turbulence Intensity affect drag and flow separation?
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Challenges in Implementing McCormic's Vortex Theory of Propellers
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Home-Made Liquid-Fuel Rocket Engine
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Pressure drop in rod bundles without spacer grid
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Why are equilateral triangles favored in the design of ionocrafts?
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How exactly does a gas turbine engine produce thrust?
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Explaining the Hyperloop Engine
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Extracting Oil from Earth: Uncovering the Process at 5km Depth
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Thrust angle calculation for off-centerline airplane engine
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Reduced Efficiency at Sea Level
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Low Atmosphere Rocket Launch Stages Carry Their Own Oxygen -- Why?
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Liquid Fueled Engine: A New Perspective
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Explanation of stiffness/compliance matrices
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Does the induced drag increase with speed?
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Project and Construction of Arduino controlled model rocket
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Adverse pressure gradient on a wing
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NASA The Korowai people and NASA's robotic car
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SpaceX SpaceX successfully lands on droneship 8-4-16
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Rocket engine vs jet engine efficiency
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Why do astronauts float in space?
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RIP Bob Ebeling - Engineer of Shuttle Booster Rockets
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The advantage the constant-volume combustion type gas turbine engine
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General-Electric GEnx turbofan engine picture label request
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Designing a Kite for a Truck Adventure
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What is the most aerodynamic shape for minimizing air resistance?
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Derivation of Aerodynamic Forces
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Calculating Velocity of a Rocket: Balancing Mass and Velocity
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Hybrid Combustion-Nuclear Electric Rocket
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SpaceX SpaceX: First stage landed Satellites in orbit
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Can Isopropyl Alcohol Be Used as Fuel for Rocket Engines?
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General relationship between gravity and rocket design.
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SpaceX Can SpaceX Successfully Revolutionize Transportation with the Hyperloop?
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NASA Did NASA Find a Lightsaber in Space?
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Designing F1 Car w/ Duke 390 Engine: Sprocket Dimensions
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