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Order Image Country Name Spacewalks # walks 1: USSR : Alexei Leonov 1934–2019: 1965: Voskhod 2 1 2: U.S. Ed White 1930–1967: 1965: Gemini 4 1 3: U.S. Eugene Cernan 1934–2017: 1966: Gemini 9A
Name & birth date Notes Missions & launch dates Ref. 1 Guion Bluford November 22, 1942 First African-American astronaut in space STS-8 (August 30, 1983) STS-61-A (October 30, 1985) STS-39 (April 28, 1991) STS-53 (December 2, 1992) [2] 2 Ronald McNair October 21, 1950 †January 28, 1986 First BaháΚΌí in space; died in the Space Shuttle ...
[2] 681 people have reached the altitude of space according to the USAF definition, and 610 have reached Earth orbit. [3] 24 people have traveled beyond low Earth orbit and either circled, orbited, or walked on the Moon. Of the 44 countries whose citizens have traveled into Earth's orbit, 25 have flown a single space traveler, and four others ...
This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. For a list of everyone who has flown in space, see List of space travelers by name. More than 600 people have been trained as astronauts.
List of sub-landers onboard Mars landers S.No Sub-Landers Type Lander Slot Launch Date Mass (kg) Status References 1. PrOP-M: Rover Mars 2 19 May 1971 4.5 Failure [3] [4] 2. PrOP-M: Rover Mars 3 28 May 1971 4.5 Not deployed [4] [5] 3. Mars 96: Penetrator Mars 96 16 Nov 1996 88 Failure [11] 4. Deep Space 2: Penetrator Mars Polar Lander 03 Jan ...
Twelve people have walked on the surface of the Moon during the Apollo program, at a cost of more than $25 billion. Granted, it's not something everyone gets to experience.
The first crewed Mars Mission, which would include sending astronauts to Mars, orbiting Mars, and returning to Earth, is proposed for the 2030s. [ 2 ] [ 50 ] [ 51 ] [ 52 ] Technology development for US government missions to Mars is underway, but there is no well-funded approach to bring the conceptual project to completion with human landings ...
After the name, denotes space travellers who have walked on the Moon. ‡ After the name, denotes those who died during their first spaceflight. [nb 1] † After the name, denotes those who died during a subsequent spaceflight. [nb 1] ⊗ After the name, denotes those whose first spaceflight had begun and was clearly intended [nb 2] to cross ...