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  1. Altair
    [spacecraft] The Altair spacecraft, previously known as the Lunar Surface Access Module or LSAM, was the planned lander spacecraft component of NASA`s cancelled Project Constellation. Astronauts would have used the spacecraft for landings on the Moon, which is intended to begin around 2019. ...
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  2. Altair
    [n] - double star 15.7 light years from Earth
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  3. Altair
    noun double star 15.7 light years from Earth; the brightest star in the Aquila constellation
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  4. Altair
    (from the article `computer`) In September 1973 Radio Electronics published an article describing a `TV Typewriter,` which was a computer terminal that could connect a hobbyist ... ...1970s, when large-scale integration made it possible to construct a sufficiently powerful microprocessor on a single...
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  5. Altair
    (from the article `astronomical map`) ...sometimes named individual bright stars rather than groups; sometimes the name of the group and its brightest star were synonymous—as in the case ...
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  6. Altair
    Altair is a Arabic girl name. The meaning of the name is `Bird` Alternative meanings (Greek) Star The name Altair doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Altair seems to be unique!
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  7. Altair
    The Altair was an Italian Climene Class destroyer of 642 tons displacement, launched in 1936. The Altair was powered by two 3-drum type oil-burning boilers providing a top speed of 34 knots, and carried a complement of 94. She was armed with three 3.9 inch guns; six 37 mm anti-aircraft guns; two 13 ...
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  1. Altair
    Altair (Alpha Aquilae, Alpha Aql, α Aquilae, α Aql, Atair) is the brightest star in the constellation Aquila and the twelfth brightest star in the night sky. It is an A-type main sequence star with an apparent visual magnitude of 0.77 and is one of the vertices of the Summer Triangle; the other t...
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  2. Altair
    (Alpha Aquilae) Altair. Image credit: NASA/JPL © 2005 Torsten Bronger The brightest star in the constellation Aquila, the twelfth brightest star in the sky, and the southern point of the Summer Triangle. Its Arabic name comes from a phrase meaning 'the fl...
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  3. Altair
    Altair (ăltä'ir) , brightest star in the constellation Aquila (Eagle); Bayer designation α Aquilae; 1992 position R.A. 19h50.5m, Dec. +8°51'. Its apparent magnitude is 0.74, making it one of the 20 brightest stars in the sky, and it is of spectral class A7 IV,V. Altair i...
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  4. Altair
    Altair is a cultivated variety of potato.
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  5. Altair
    Brightest star in the constellation Aquila and the 13th-brightest star in the night sky. It is a white star about 16 light years away from the Sun and forms the Summer Triangle with the stars Deneb (in the constellation Cygnus) and Vega (in Lyra)
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  6. Altair
    [rocket stage] The Altair was a solid-fuel rocket with a fiberglass casing, initially developed for use as the third stage of Vanguard rockets. It was manufactured by Allegany Ballistics Laboratory (ABL) as the X-248. It was also sometimes called the Burner 1. ==Uses== The X-248 was one of t...
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  7. altair
    1) Altair 2) Arabic girl name 3) Binary 4) Binary star 5) Bright northern star 6) Bright star 7) Bright star, one corner of 'the summer triangle' 8) Brightest star in aquila 9) Brightest star in the aquila constellation 10) Double...
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