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Full-rigged ship: For John Hay. [8] [92] 3 May United Kingdom: Messrs. Samuelson & Co. Hull: Ernestine: Steamship: For private owner. [93] 3 May United Kingdom: Messrs. John Scott Russell & Co. Millwall: Etna: Aetna-class ironclad floating battery: For Royal Navy. Caught fire and self-launched, damaged beyond repair. [94] 3 May France: Lorient ...
List of ship launches in 1855; A. French ship Algésiras (1855) Alhambra (1855) Andrew Jackson (clipper) SS Arago (1855) French ship Arcole (1855) USCS Arctic;
Mir was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996. It had a greater mass than any previous spacecraft. At the time it was the largest artificial satellite in orbit, succeeded by the International Space Station (ISS) after Mir's orbit decayed.
First consistently inhabited long-term research space station. USSR Mir: 13 March 1986: First close up observations of a comet (Halley's Comet, 596 kilometers). ESA Giotto: July 1988: First suspected detection of an exoplanet (Gamma Cephei Ab). [note 3] Canada: Astronomers Bruce Campbell, Gordon Walker and Stephenson Yang. [39] 8 August 1989
The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station that was assembled and is maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada).
The list for the year 2025 and for its subsequent years may contain planned launches, but the statistics will only include past launches. For the purpose of these lists, a spaceflight is defined as any flight that crosses the Kármán line, the FAI-recognized edge of space, which is 100 kilometres (62 miles) above mean sea level (AMSL). [1]
A space station (or orbital station) is a spacecraft which remains in orbit and hosts humans for extended periods of time. It therefore is an artificial satellite featuring habitation facilities . The purpose of maintaining a space station varies depending on the program.
First animals and plants returned alive from space (the dogs Belka and Strelka) First capsule recovered from orbit Korabl-Sputnik 2 (aka Sputnik 5) 1961 January 31 USA First great ape or Hominidae in space, Ham, a chimpanzee Mercury-Redstone 2: 1961 February 12 USSR First launch from Earth orbit of upper stage into a heliocentric orbit