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  2. Space Quest II - Wikipedia

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    Space Quest II takes place within a universe that notably parodies prominent science-fiction brands such as Star Wars and Star Trek.The story takes place several months after the events of Space Quest I, with players assuming the role of Roger Wilco, a janitor who saved his homeworld of Xenon from disaster by destroying a potent weapon known as the Star Generator and killing the Sariens that ...

  3. Aztec Two-Step - Wikipedia

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    Aztec Two-Step is an American folk-rock band, formed by Rex Fowler and Neal Shulman at a chance meeting on open stage, at a Boston coffee house, the Stone Phoenix, [1] in 1971. Fowler grew up in Connecticut and Maine, and Shulman grew up in Manhattan.

  4. Wallace Shawn - Wikipedia

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    Wallace Michael Shawn (born November 12, 1943) is an American actor, essayist, playwright, and screenwriter. He is known for playing Vizzini in The Princess Bride (1987), Mr. Hall in Clueless (1995), Dr. John Sturgis in Young Sheldon (2018–2024), and voicing Rex in the Toy Story franchise (1995–present).

  5. David Scott - Wikipedia

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    David Randolph Scott (born June 6, 1932) is an American retired test pilot and NASA astronaut who was the seventh person to walk on the Moon.Selected as part of the third group of astronauts in 1963, Scott flew to space three times and commanded Apollo 15, the fourth lunar landing; he is one of four surviving Moon walkers and the only living commander of a spacecraft that landed on the Moon.

  6. SpaceX Dragon - Wikipedia

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    Dragon 1 C112 approaching the ISS. Dragon is a family of spacecraft developed and produced by American private space transportation company SpaceX.. The first variant, later named Dragon 1, flew 23 cargo missions to the International Space Station (ISS) between 2010 and 2020 before retiring.

  7. Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2205 - Wikipedia

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    Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202 (2017 film series) Space Battleship Yamato 2205: A New Voyage ( 宇宙戦艦ヤマト2205 新たなる旅立ち , Uchū Senkan Yamato Ni-ni-zero-go Aratanaru Tabidachi ) , also known as Star Blazers 2205 , is a Japanese military science fiction animated film duology produced by Satelight and Staple ...

  8. Microsoft Space Simulator - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Space Simulator uses Newton's laws of motion but takes account of relativistic effects by decreasing a spacecraft's acceleration as its speed approaches the speed of light. [3] It does not take account of time dilation. Atmospheric effect are not modeled and all planetary surfaces are treated as flat spheres.

  9. Private spaceflight - Wikipedia

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    Private spaceflight refers to spaceflight developments that are not conducted by a government agency, such as NASA or ESA.. During the early decades of the Space Age, the government space agencies of the Soviet Union and United States pioneered space technology in collaboration with affiliated design bureaus in the USSR and private companies in the US.