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Space Infrastructure Servicing
Space infrastructure servicing is the practice of refueling, repairing, upgrading, relocating, or removing spacecraft in orbit, using astronauts or robotic servicer spacecraft like Northrop Grumman's MEV-1.
Space Invaders (1999 video game)
Space Invaders (1999) is Activision and Torus Games' 3D remake of Taito's 1978 arcade shooter, released for PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, and PC, adding ships, power-ups, and bosses.
Space Invaders (Atari 2600 video game)
Space Invaders (Atari 2600) is Atari's March 1980 home port of Taito's 1978 arcade hit, programmed by Rick Maurer; with 36 invaders, 112 variations, and no high score list, it became the first console killer app and quadrupled Atari 2600 sales.
Space Invaders (スペースインベーダー)
Space Invaders (スペースインベーダー) is Taito's 1978 arcade shoot 'em up by Tomohiro Nishikado, running on custom Intel 8080 hardware; its 55 aliens speed up as they die due to a hardware accident, and it caused Japan's 100-yen coin shortage.
Space Jam
Space Jam is a 1996 American live-action/animated sports comedy in which basketball star Michael Jordan teams with Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tunes to win a high-stakes basketball game against aliens.
Space Jam: A New Legacy
Space Jam: A New Legacy, also known as Space Jam 2, is a 2021 American sports comedy starring LeBron James with the Looney Tunes, directed by Malcolm D. Lee.
Space Jesus
Space Jesus is the stage name of Jasha Tull, an American electronic music producer and DJ based in Brooklyn, known for bass-heavy beats with hip-hop flavor.
Space launch market competition
Space launch market competition is the contest among launch providers to deliver payloads to orbit on price and reliability, with SpaceX dominating at 83 percent of spacecraft launched in 2024.
Space Launch System
The Space Launch System (SLS) is NASA's expendable super heavy-lift rocket for Artemis missions to the Moon, first flown uncrewed in November 2022 and carrying four astronauts around the Moon on Artemis II in April 2026.
Space law
Space law governs activities in outer space, centered on the 1967 Outer Space Treaty and later UN treaties plus national licensing regimes; key rules bar national appropriation and orbiting WMD, while debris, megaconstellations, and lunar resources expose gaps.
Space Liability Convention
The Space Liability Convention (1972) is a UN treaty elaborating Outer Space Treaty Article VII: launching States are absolutely liable for surface and aircraft damage, fault-based in space. Its only known claim, Cosmos 954, settled for C$3 million in 1981.
Space Link Extension
Space Link Extension (SLE) is a set of CCSDS data-transfer standards that let a mission control center send commands to and receive telemetry from spacecraft via other agencies' ground stations.
Space mapping
Space mapping is an engineering optimization technique linking a fast approximate coarse model with an accurate expensive fine model, developed for electromagnetic design, typically converging in a handful of fine-model evaluations.
Space Marine (Warhammer 40,000)
Space Marines (Adeptus Astartes) are the genetically enhanced super-soldier faction of Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 tabletop game, organized into Chapters of 1,000, first released in 1987's Rogue Trader, with over 93 units and starring roles in Space Marine 2 and Dawn of War.
Space medicine
Space medicine is the field of comprehensive health care for astronauts, covering crew selection, in-flight medical care, and countermeasures against bone loss, vision changes, and radiation during spaceflight.
Space Mirror Memorial
The Space Mirror Memorial, also known as the Astronaut Memorial, is the United States' national memorial to fallen astronauts at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.
Space modelling competition (S classes)
Space modeling competition (S classes) is FAI model rocketry competition scored on altitude, duration, and scale, with classes from S1 upward and a first world championship in 1972.
Space Mountain
Space Mountain is Disney's indoor roller coaster in the dark, opened January 15, 1975 at Magic Kingdom, with two 3,000-foot tracks, 28 mph top speed, and versions at five Disney resorts.
Space Mountain (Magic Kingdom)
Space Mountain at Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World, is the original 1975 indoor dual-track roller coaster in the dark: 183 feet tall, 28 mph, Alpha and Omega tracks, single-file seating, no onboard audio, unlike later Disneyland, Tokyo, Paris, and Hong Kong versions.
Space Mutiny
Space Mutiny (1988) is a South African-American sci-fi film by David Winters and Neal Sundstrom, starring Reb Brown as pilot Dave Ryder stopping Elijah Kalgan's mutiny aboard the generation ship Southern Sun, infamous for reused Battlestar Galactica footage and its celebrated MST3K episode 820.
Space Needle
The Space Needle is a 605-foot observation tower in Seattle, Washington, built for the 1962 World's Fair and the tallest structure west of the Mississippi River at completion.
Space Norway (company)
Space Norway is a wholly state-owned Norwegian satellite operator under the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries, renamed in 2013 and buyer of Telenor Satellite in 2024.
Space Oddity
Space Oddity is David Bowie's 1969 single about the astronaut Major Tom, inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey, recorded at Trident with Gus Dudgeon, used in BBC Moon landing coverage, and reissued at number one in 1975.
Space Odyssey
Space Odyssey is a science fiction novel series by British author Arthur C. Clarke. It consists of four books, following black monolith artifacts that intervene in human evolution.
Space opera
Space opera: science fiction subgenre of romantic, large-scale interstellar adventure and conflict. Term coined pejoratively by Wilson Tucker in 1941; founded by E. E. "Doc" Smith's 1928 Skylark; revived from the 1980s as sophisticated new space opera.
Space planning
Space planning is the process of arranging rooms, functions, furniture, and circulation within a building so the layout supports intended use, producing floor plan options.
Space probe
A space probe, also called an interplanetary probe, is an unmanned spacecraft sent from Earth to explore celestial bodies by flying past, orbiting, or landing on them.
Space Quest
Space Quest is Sierra On-Line's comedy science-fiction graphic adventure series (1986–1996) by Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy, the Two Guys from Andromeda, starring janitor Roger Wilco across six games plus a canceled Space Quest 7.
Space Race
The Space Race was the Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union in spaceflight, from the 1957 Sputnik launch to the 1969 Moon landing.
Space Racers
Space Racers is an American CGI-animated preschool TV series (2014–2018, three seasons) about spaceship cadets Eagle, Hawk, Robyn, Starling, and Raven at the Stardust Space Academy, produced with NASA scientific script approval.