Astronautics Vocabulary

The Astronautics Vocabulary is a glossary of terms that pertain to the science and technology of spaceflight. This alphabetical list can be navigated by clicking on the letters A-Z displayed on this page.

• fairings
• Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE)
• fine error sensor (FES)
• Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS)
• firing
• flight controller
• flight deck
• flight engineer
• Fluid Physics Experiment (FLEX)
• foot restraint
• force moment sensor
• Fourier-transform spectrometer (FTS)
• free floating