DIRECT

DIRECT

DIRECT is a proposed alternative heavy lift launch vehicle architecture supporting NASA's Vision for Space Exploration, which would replace the space agency's planned Ares I and Ares V rockets. The family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles are named "Jupiter".

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Di-rect

Di-rect is a rock band from The Hague, The Netherlands, which was formed in 1999. The current line-up consists of Jamie Westland, Frans "Spike" van Zoest, Bas van Wageningen, Vince van Reeken and Marcel Veenendaal .

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direct

Verb

  1. To manage, control, steer.
    to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army
  2. To aim (something) at (something else).
    They directed their fire towards the men on the wall.
    He directed his question to the room in general.
  3. To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
    He directed me to the left-hand road.
  4. To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
    She directed them to leave immediately.
  5. To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent.
    to direct a letter

Adjective

  1. Straight, constant, without interruption.
  2. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
    the most direct route between two buildings
  3. Straightforward; sincere.
  4. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
  5. In the line of descent; not collateral.
    a descendant in the direct line
  6. In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; said of the motion of a celestial body.

Adverb

  1. Directly.


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