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Space Babies
"Space Babies" is the 2024 Doctor Who Season 1 opener, also called the first episode of Series 14, written by Russell T Davies and directed by Julie Anne Robinson, in which the Doctor and Ruby Sunday visit Babystation Beta, a baby farm run by talking babies menaced by the Bogeyman.
Space bar
The space bar, or space key, is the longest key on a computer keyboard, typically 6.25U wide on ANSI boards, entering a space character and carrying shortcuts.
Space Battleship Yamato (1974 film)
Space Battleship Yamato (宇宙戦艦ヤマト) is the 1974 Japanese animated space opera series, 26 episodes on Yomiuri TV, re-edited into the hit 1977 Toei compilation film; created by Yoshinobu Nishizaki with Leiji Matsumoto's design work.
Space Battleship Yamato (宇宙戦艦ヤマト)
Space Battleship Yamato (宇宙戦艦ヤマト) is a 1974 Japanese SF anime (26 episodes, Yomiuri TV) whose 1977 film made anime a social phenomenon for adults; remade as 2199, 2202, 2205, and REBEL3199, with a new Anno-directed film announced in 2026.
Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage
Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage (Uchū Senkan Yamato: Aratanaru Tabidachi) is a 1979 Fuji TV animated telefeature, the third Yamato movie, in which the Yamato crew and Desslar defend Iscandar from the Dark Nebula Empire; remade as Yamato 2205 (2021–2022).
Space blanket
A space blanket, also called an emergency or Mylar blanket, is a thin aluminized plastic sheet that reflects body heat; NASA developed it in 1964 for spacecraft insulation.
Space Cadet (2024 film)
Space Cadet (2024) is an American Prime Video comedy directed by Liz W. Garcia, starring Emma Roberts as Florida bartender Rex Simpson, who enters NASA astronaut training via a doctored application; 110 minutes, PG-13, released July 4, 2024.
Space capsule
A space capsule is a blunt, compact spacecraft in which crews live and work, returning to Earth through a heat shield and splashing down or landing under parachutes.
Space charge
Space charge is a net electric charge distributed through a volume of material or free space rather than on a surface, occurring in dielectrics, semiconductor depletion regions, vacuum tubes, and plasmas.
Space charge effect
The space charge effect is the mutual electrostatic repulsion among a beam's charged particles, producing self-fields that defocus the beam; it dominates low-energy, high-intensity accelerators and limits beam intensity.
Space Coast
The Space Coast is the central Atlantic coast of Florida around Brevard County, home to NASA's Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Space cold-atom clock aboard the Chinese space station
The space cold-atom clock (空间冷原子钟, SCAC) is a rubidium clock developed by the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, the first cold-atom clock to operate in orbit.
Space colonization
Space colonization: establishing self-sustaining human settlements beyond Earth, distinct from stations or short missions. Covers Moon, Mars and orbital habitats, radiation and life-support barriers, Artemis timelines, and space law.
Space Cop
Space Cop is a 2016 American direct-to-video sci-fi buddy-cop comedy by Red Letter Media's Jay Bauman and Mike Stoklasa, shot in Milwaukee for $80,000 and self-distributed.
Space Cowboys
Space Cowboys is a 2000 American adventure drama directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner as aging engineers sent to repair a satellite.
Space Dandy (スペース☆ダンディ)
Space Dandy (スペース☆ダンディ) is a 2014 BONES science-fiction comedy anime, two seasons, 26 episodes, created by Shinichiro Watanabe, following alien hunter Dandy, robot QT, and Meow aboard the Aloha Oe.
Space debris
Space debris, also known as space junk, is any non-functional artificial object in Earth orbit, created by over 6,000 launches since the space age began.
Space Development Agency
The Space Development Agency (SDA) is a U.S. Space Force organization, established in 2019, that develops the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, a planned constellation of small satellites in low Earth orbit.
Space diplomacy
Space diplomacy is how states and non-state actors conduct international relations involving outer space, from treaty-making and arms control to sharing satellite data for disasters.
Space disposal
Space disposal is a proposed method of launching radioactive waste beyond the biosphere, studied by NASA in the 1970s but abandoned over cost and launch risk.
Space diving
Space diving is the act of jumping from a vehicle or balloon at very high altitude and landing by parachute, most famously from stratospheric balloons.
Space Dynamics Laboratory
Space Dynamics Laboratory is a nonprofit University Affiliated Research Center owned by Utah State University in North Logan, Utah, building sensors and small satellites for defense and NASA programs.
Space Electronic (Florence)
Space Electronic, also known as Space Club, is a discotheque in Florence opened in 1969 by the radical-architecture group Gruppo 9999, hosting rock acts and experimental theater through the 1970s.
Space elevator
A space elevator, also called an orbital tower, is a proposed transportation system in which a tether anchored to Earth's equator extends past geostationary orbit so climbers can reach orbit without rockets.
Space exploration
Space exploration, also called outer space or extraterrestrial exploration, investigates space beyond Earth's atmosphere using crewed and robotic spacecraft, beginning with the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 launch in 1957.
Space Exploration Vehicle
The Space Exploration Vehicle (SEV), formerly the Lunar Electric Rover, is a NASA concept for a pressurized rover letting astronauts live and work on the Moon or Mars.
Space food
Space food is food specially developed, processed, and packaged for astronauts during spaceflight, where it must stay safe and nutritious without refrigeration, conventional cooking, or gravity to control crumbs and liquids.
Space force
United States Space Force (USSF), also called Space Force, the sixth branch of the U.S. armed forces, established December 2019 from Air Force Space Command; members are Guardians, about 15,400 personnel, led by the Chief of Space Operations.
Space Force (TV series)
Space Force is a Netflix workplace comedy created by Steve Carell and Greg Daniels, announced January 2019, starring Carell as General Mark R. Naird and John Malkovich as Dr. Adrian Mallory. Two seasons (2020, 2022), canceled April 2022; Rotten Tomatoes 39% season 1, 80% season 2.
Space frame
A space frame, also known as an octet truss, is a three-dimensional structural system of triangulated members that spans large column-free roofs for stadiums, hangars, and exhibition halls.