Frederick C. Durant
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LOCATION: Chevy Chase, MD, United States
Aerospace historian. Assistant Director, Astronautics, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1965–81.
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Spaceflight, flight beyond Earth’s atmosphere. This article deals with the basic concepts associated with the launch and return of unmanned and manned spacecraft and their travel, navigation, and rendezvous and docking in space. For the development of space travel and discussions of spacecraft and…
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