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The year 2008 contained several significant events in spaceflight, including the first flyby of Mercury by a spacecraft since 1975, the discovery of water ice on Mars by the Phoenix spacecraft, which landed in May, the first Chinese spacewalk in September, the launch of the first Indian Lunar probe in October, and the first successful flight of a privately developed orbital launch vehicle by ...
Spacecraft launched in 2008 (1 C, 75 P) Pages in category "2008 in spaceflight" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
Discovery launched on May 31, 2008, at 17:02 EDT, moved from an earlier scheduled launch date of May 25, 2008, [4] and landed safely at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility, at 11:15 EDT on June 14, 2008. Its objective was to deliver the largest module of the space station – KibÅ, the Japanese Experiment Module pressurized ...
Space probes launched in 2008 (1 P) Pages in category "Spacecraft launched in 2008" The following 75 pages are in this category, out of 75 total.
Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 2 West (VAFB SLC-2W) 2004.07.15 Aura (EOS CH-1) Delta II 7920-10L Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 2 West (VAFB SLC-2W) 2004.08.03 MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) Delta II Heavy 7925H-9.5 Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17 (CCAFS SLC 17) 2004.11.20
All flights were launched from Kwajalein Atoll using the SpaceX launch facility on Omelek Island and range facilities of the Reagan Test Site. Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 3W was the original launch site for Falcon 1, but it was abandoned at the test-fire stage due to persistent schedule conflicts with adjacent launch pads. [30]
The first flight day is the day of launch for the astronauts. That day started at the launch site on March 10, 2008 (local time), with the actual launch in the early hours of the 11th and the astronauts going to bed several hours after launch. March 10, 2008, is called flight day 1 by NASA, even though the actual mission launched on March 11.
The 2024 list and lists for subsequent years contain planned launches, but statistics only include past launches. For the purpose of these lists, a spaceflight is defined as any flight that crosses the Kármán line, the FAI-recognized edge of space, which is 100 kilometres (62 miles) above mean sea level (AMSL). The timeline contains all ...