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SSouth
SSecond(s)
SSmile
SSatisfactory
SSearch (Stores 100 code)
SAs
SSystem
SSign
SSource (transistor; electronics)
SStore
SSection
SSubject
SShort
SSave (baseball)
SSide (geometry, as in the SSS postulate)
SSafety (football)
SSuper (in automatic transmissions; equal to 2)
SStorage
SSex
SSecret
SSweden (ISO Country Identifier)
SSwitch
SSavings (economics)
SSnow (weather reports)
SSatellite (imagery, type of map)
SSin (Spanish: Without)
SSierra (aviation letter code)
SSenate
SSevere (rock climbing grade)
SSeminar
SSeite
SSmooth (woodworking)
SSegment
SSubsidiary (IRB)
SSaskatchewan (postal code designation, Canada)
SSkype (voice-over-Internet service)
SSealed (CD condition)
SSuperb
SSleeve
SSiemens
SSphere
SSacrifice (baseball)
SScout
SSan Francisco, CA (mint mark)
SStuttgart (auto license plate)
SSheffield (postcode, United Kingdom)
SSickness (on overtime forms)
SServicing
SScrap
SSuperman
SSears (stock symbol)
SSequential
SDisplacement
SSine (Latin: Without)
SSpectacles
SStokes (kinematic viscosity)
SSpades (playing cards)
SSulfur
SShaman (Mic-O-Say, Heart of America Council, Boy Scouts of America)
SEntropy (thermodynamics)
SSeaman
SSoldering
SSerine (amino acid)
SShilling (British currency)
SSemi-Annual
SSparkasse (German: public savings bank)
SSystolic (peak blood pressure)
SStreptococcus
SStarboard (nautical)
SStreptomycin
SAntisubmarine (US military aircraft designation; as in S-2 Tracker)
SSubchapter S Corporation
SSpaceplane (US military aerospace vehicle)
SScatterable (mines)
STrack spacing
SSacral Vertebra (prefix, as in S-1)
sSocialdemokratiska Arbetarpartiet (Swedish political party)
SStarboard Truss Segment (ISS)
SSubthreshold Swing
SFranchise Stamp (Scott Catalogue prefix; philately)
SFresnel Sine Integral
SS Sub-Shell (innermost electron subshell)
SArea of a geometric figure (mathematics)
sTERCOM-Aided Inertial Navigation System
SOnde Seconde (Italian: second wave; seismography)
SSupervisory Function Bit
SSecondary Body Waves
SUS DoT tire speed rating (112 mph)
SContinuous-time complex variable (analogous to Z in discrete-time; electrical engineering)
SFourth Heartbeat Wave


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Rohrabacher also referred to the X-37 as an important component of the Military Spaceplane program, an effort to develop a spacecraft capable of conducting military missions in orbit.
By November 1989, after the Bush administration managed to renew funding for the project, William Safire had caught the fever, waxing rhapsodic in The New York Times over the way "the Underestimated Man," Dan Quayle, chairman of the National Space Council, "got down there in that hydrogen slush and rescued the spaceplane from oblivion.
At McDonnell Douglas, he originated and managed the development of the Delta Clipper reusable spaceplane system concept.
 
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