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A Tianzhou cargo delivery mission was launched on 29 May 2021, and the Shenzhou 12 crewed mission on 17 June 2021. [11] Shenzhou 13 has launched a second crew on 15 October and conducted their first EVA on 7 November, making Wang Yaping the first Chinese female astronaut to perform a spacewalk. [12]
NASASpaceflight, often referred to as NSF, is a private aerospace news organization, which operates a YouTube channel, website, and forum, which launched in 2005, as well as various social media channels covering crewed and uncrewed spaceflight and aerospace engineering news.
Ariane flight VA256 was an Ariane 5 rocket flight that launched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) into space on 25 December 2021. [3] It was 2021's final Ariane flight, its most valuable payload to date, and the 256th Ariane mission. The launch was described by NASA as "flawless" and "perfect". [4]
Boeing and SpaceX should launch humans into orbit, and NASA expects to land the first helicopter on Mars. Space 2021: All the Mars landings, eclipses, astronaut flights, rocket launches, and other ...
SpaceX plans to launch the Falcon 9 carrying the Thuraya 4 satellite Friday at 8:27 p.m. ET from Cape Canaveral, with a backup option Saturday. The mission marks the 20th flight for the rocket's ...
This article lists orbital and suborbital launches during the second half of the year 2021, including launches planned for 2021 without a specific launch date. For all other spaceflight activities, see 2021 in spaceflight. For launches in the first half of 2021, see List of spaceflight launches in January–June 2021.
20 December 2021, Soyuz MS-20: 339 Laura Shepard Churchley Michael Strahan Dylan Taylor Evan Dick Lane Bess Cameron Bess 11 December 2021 NS 19. Reached an altitude of greater than 100 km (62 mi), crossing the FAI definition of space. 340 Oleg Artemyev (3) Denis Matveev Sergey Korsakov: 18 March 2022, Soyuz MS-21: ISS (crew 66/67) 29 September ...
The 11 July 2021 flight was the first time more than three people flew suborbitally on a spaceflight and the first time more than one passenger flew on a suborbital spaceflight, and Branson was the first founder of a spaceflight company to fly to space on his own company's craft, using the USAF/NASA definition of space as above 50 miles.