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Nedelin catastrophe: A launch pad explosion of an unmanned rocket killed the important Soviet Air Force official Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, and approximately 120 other personnel. [97] 24 October 1963: Baikonur Cosmodrome, USSR: 7: R-9 Desna: An R-9 missile was being prepared for launch in a silo from Site 70 at Baikonur Cosmodrome.
2018 - The Electron rocket was the first New Zealand rocket to achieve orbit. The rocket is also unique in using an electric pump-fed engine. The rocket also carried an additional satellite payload called "Humanity Star", a 1-meter-wide (3 ft) carbon fiber sphere made up of 65 panels that reflect the Sun's light. [35]
Allegedly, the falling debris killed a livestock animal and injured another as one metal fragment struck a sheep pen. The debris is likely from the third stage of the Long March 3B rocket with a Y86 serial, launched in September 2021. [30] [31] [32] The Indian space agency ISRO is investigating both incidents.
Apollo 7 heads into orbit with its crew of three, 1968. This is a list of all crewed spaceflights throughout history. Beginning in 1961 with the flight of Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1, crewed spaceflight occurs when a human crew flies a spacecraft into outer space.
The year 1986 saw the destruction of Space Shuttle Challenger shortly after lift-off, killing all seven aboard, [1] the first in-flight deaths of American astronauts. This accident followed the successful flight of Columbia just weeks earlier, [2] and dealt a major setback to the U.S. crewed space program, suspending the Shuttle program for 32 months.
Apollo 11 was launched by a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, on July 16 at 13:32 UTC, and it was the fifth crewed mission of NASA's Apollo program.
Testing the XLR-115 hydrogen fueled rocket engine at the Florida Research and Development Center in Apix. Apix, Florida was a former rocket testing facility created as part of Project Suntan during the Space Race, including a fake town in Palm Beach County, Florida, the primary feature of which was an alleged fertilizer plant set among the surrounding swamplands.
A total of 2,754 people in England were killed, and 6,523 were wounded before the launch campaign was ended. There were also 20,000 deaths of slave labour during the construction of V-2s. While it did not significantly affect the course of the war, the V-2 provided a lethal demonstration of the potential for guided rockets as weapons.