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American Spaces sometimes have different names depending on where they are located, but they are all part of a single network: American Centers, Binational Centers, and American Corners. In some countries, American Spaces may use other titles or special names, such as Lincoln Corners, America Houses, American Hubs, or InfoUSA Centers, among others.
The American Space Museum is a museum in Titusville, Florida. It includes the US Space Walk of Fame , an outdoor plaza on the Indian River that honors both the astronauts and the NASA and contractor personnel who made American crewed space exploration possible.
Space programs of the United States date to the start of the Space Age in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Programs involve both crewed systems and uncrewed satellites, probes and platforms to meet diverse program objectives. From a definition perspective, the criteria for what constitutes spaceflight vary.
Space Launch System (2022–present) RS1 (2023–present) Terran 1 (2023) SpaceX Starship (2023–present) Vulcan Centaur (2024–present) New Glenn (Under development, expected 2024) Rocket 4 (Under development, expected 2025) Neutron (Under development, expected 2025) Red Dwarf (Under development, expected 2024) Nova (Under development ...
This is a list of space probes that have left Earth orbit (or were launched with that intention but failed), organized by their planned destination. It includes planetary probes, solar probes, and probes to asteroids and comets, but excludes lunar missions, which are listed separately at List of lunar probes and List of Apollo missions.
This allowed the Russians to maintain their space program through an infusion of American currency to maintain their status as one of the two premier space programs. While the United States built and launched the majority of the International Space Station, Russia, Canada, Japan, and the European Space Agency all contributed components.
Until recently, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military or by civilian space agencies. However, with the advent of suborbital flight starting with privately funded SpaceShipOne in 2004, a new category of astronaut was created: the commercial astronaut .
First British satellite in space (on American rocket) July 10 US: Telstar 1: Thor-Delta: Earth Success: Communication satellite July 22 US: Mariner 1: Atlas-Agena: Venus Failure: Software related guidance system failure, range safety officer ordered destroyed after 294.5 seconds after launch. August 27 US: Mariner 2: Atlas-Agena: Venus Success