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On 15 September, the Firefly Alpha made its successful flight for a tactically responsive mission for the U.S. Space Force. [27] On November 18, 2023, SpaceX Starship attempted its second flight test, becoming the heaviest rocket to enter space, although the first stage exploded shortly after separation, while the second stage was lost nearly ...
26 August 2023 SpaceX Crew-7, Endurance: ISS (crew 69/70) 12 March 2024 SpaceX Crew-7, Endurance: ISS crew rotation. — Michael Masucci Beth Moses Adrian Reynard [1] Nicola Pecile Ken Baxter [2] / Timothy Nash [3] 8 September 2023 Galactic 03. Reached an altitude of 88.56 km (55 mi), crossing the U.S. definition of space. 354 Oleg Kononenko (5 ...
The Spacefacts list includes most flights listed here, but omits twelve: The three failed launches of STS-51-L, Soyuz T-10a and Soyuz MS-10, none of which achieved human spaceflight, the uncrewed launch of Soyuz 34 (which nevertheless returned a crew to Earth), and the eight sub-orbital human spaceflights: Mercury-Redstone 3 and 4, X-15 flights ...
U.S. Space Shuttle missions were capable of carrying more humans and cargo than the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, resulting in more U.S. short-term human visits until the Space Shuttle program was discontinued in 2011. Between 2011 and 2020, Soyuz was the sole means of human transport to the ISS, delivering mostly long-term crew.
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The period between the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011 and the first launch into space of SpaceShipTwo Flight VP-03 on 13 December 2018 is similar to the gap between the end of Apollo in 1975 and the first Space Shuttle flight in 1981, and is referred to by a presidential Blue Ribbon Committee as the U.S. human spaceflight gap.
In June 2023, Jim Free, NASA's associate administrator for exploration systems development, said that launch would "probably" be no earlier than 2026. [28] [29] Later in December 2023, the GAO reported the mission was unlikely to occur before 2027. [30] In January 2024, NASA officially delayed Artemis III to no earlier than September 2026. [31]
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