Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Tom Wilks and Helen Fraser. It was first published in October 2018.

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Figure 1: Activity 2: ©NASA

Figure 2: ©STS-122 Shuttle Crew, NASA

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Figure 4: courtesy of Michael Lodge-Paolini

Figure 5: ©International Space Station

Figure 6: ©NASA

Figure 7: ©Alamy

Figure 8: taken from; ‘An illustrated guide to Spacex’s launch vehicle reusability plans’ © John Gardi & Jon Ross

Figure 9: ©NASA/Bill Ingalls

Figure 10: taken from: https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Launch_vehicle

Figure 11: ©ScienceABC; https://www.scienceabc.com/ eyeopeners/ why-are-rockets-launched-from-areas-near-the-equator.html

Figure 12: ©The COMET program/EUMETSAT/NASA/NOAA

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