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  2. Christopher C. Kraft Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership (1979) Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr. (February 28, 1924 – July 22, 2019) was an American aerospace and NASA engineer who was instrumental in establishing the agency's Mission Control Center and shaping its organization and culture. His protégé Glynn Lunney said in 1998: "the Control Center ...

  3. Descartes Systems Group - Wikipedia

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    The Descartes Systems Group Inc. (commonly referred to as Descartes) is a Canadian multinational technology company specializing in logistics software, supply chain management software, and cloud -based services for logistics businesses. Descartes is perhaps best known for its abrupt and unexpected turnaround in the mid-2000s after coming close ...

  4. HTTPS - Wikipedia

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    Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It uses encryption for secure communication over a computer network, and is widely used on the Internet. [ 1 ][ 2 ] In HTTPS, the communication protocol is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS) or, formerly, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).

  5. List of engineering branches - Wikipedia

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    Aerospace engineering, airplanes, helicopters, drones and spacecraft. Marine engineering, boats, ships, oil rigs and other marine vessels or structures, oceanographic engineering. Railway engineering dealing with the design, construction, and operation of all types of rail transport systems. Power plant engineering.

  6. Kraft process - Wikipedia

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    The kraft process involves treatment of wood chips with a hot mixture of water, sodium hydroxide (NaOH), and sodium sulfide (Na 2 S), known as white liquor, that breaks the bonds that link lignin, hemicellulose, and cellulose. The technology entails several steps, both mechanical and chemical. It is the dominant method for producing paper.

  7. RV Petrel - Wikipedia

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    RV Petrel, or R/V Petrel (IMO: 9268629, MMSI: 235102789), [2] [3] is a 76.45 m (250.8 ft) research vessel sailing under the UK flag and owned by the United States Navy and once owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

  8. Port Melbourne - Wikipedia

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    Fishermans Bend is a primary industrial centre at the foot of the West Gate Bridge and contains major establishments for the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Holden, Hawker de Havilland, GKN Aerospace Engineering Services, the Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Composite Structures, Kraft Foods, Toyota Australia, port security ...

  9. ICE Cubes Service - Wikipedia

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    The International Commercial Experiment Cubes ( ICE Cubes) service is a commercial service that offers access to space for research, technology and education. [1] [2] It allows public or private entities to run their experiments on board the International Space Station for access to microgravity. [1] Examples of potential fields of research ...