DIRECT

DIRECT was a late-2000s 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 with a family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles named "Jupiter".

Direct may refer to:

• Direct current, a direct flow of electricity
• Direct examination, the in-trial questioning of a witness by the party who has called him or her to testify
• Direct sum of modules, a construction in abstract algebra which combines several vector spaces
• Direct (Vangelis album), 1988 album by Vangelis
• Direct (EP), a 2002 EP by The 77s
• Direct (Tower of Power album), 1981
• DirectX, a proprietary dynamic media platform
• Mars Direct, a proposal for a manned mission to Mars
• DIRECT, a proposed space shuttle-derived launch vehicle