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The Polish Space Agency (POLSA; Polish: Polska Agencja Kosmiczna, PAK) is the space agency of Poland, administered by the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology. It is a member of the European Space Agency. The agency is focused on developing satellite networks and space technologies in Poland. [2]
Countries represented only by suborbital space flyers are shaded. Note: citizens from the now-defunct East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Soviet Union have also flown in space. Since the first human spaceflight by the Soviet Union, citizens of 48 countries have flown in space. For each nationality, the launch date of the first mission is listed.
Countries (and successor states) whose citizens have flown in space as of January 2024. The criteria for determining who has achieved human spaceflight vary. The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) defines spaceflight as any flight over 100 kilometres (62 mi), while in the United States, professional, military and commercial astronauts who travel above an altitude of 50 miles (80 ...
The following is a list of Polish astronauts who have traveled into space, sorted by date of first flight. As of 2024, one Polish national has been in space. The first, and so far only, Polish national in space was Mirosław Hermaszewski on Soyuz 30 in 1978.
Poland has demanded an explanation from Moscow after saying a Russian cruise missile aimed at Ukraine entered its territory. “On March 24 at 4:23 a.m., there was a violation of Polish airspace ...
Delays have turned what was originally intended to be a week-long trip into a 47-day-and-counting stay in space. Right now, NASA is analyzing data to find the proper time to undock and return back ...
Heweliusz is the third [2] Polish satellite (after PW-Sat and Lem) ever launched.Along with Lem, TUGSAT-1, UniBRITE-1 and BRITE-Toronto, it is one from a constellation of six nanosatellites of the BRIght-star Target Explorer project, operated by a consortium of universities from Canada, Austria and Poland.
We're all in space right now and we're all crew mates. There are no passengers on spaceship Earth and as crew mates, we have a responsibility to mind the ship and to take care of our fellow crew ...