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This is the timeline of known spaceflights, both crewed and uncrewed, sorted chronologically by launch date.Owing to its large size, the timeline is split into smaller articles, one for each year since 1951.
[1] [14] Starting 31 minutes after launch, and continuing for about 13 days, JWST began the process of deploying its solar array, antenna, sunshield, and mirrors. [27] Nearly all deployment actions are commanded by the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore , except for two early automatic steps, solar panel unfolding and communication ...
March (TBD) [1] SLS Block 1B Kennedy LC-39B: NASA: Artemis 5: NASA: Selenocentric Crewed lunar landing ESPRIT Refueling Module (ERM) ESA: Selenocentric Lunar Gateway component Lunar Terrain Vehicle: NASA: Selenocentric to lunar surface: Crewed lunar rover November (TBD) [2] TBA: TBA: TBA: Sentinel-6 NG A (Sentinel-6C) NASA / NOAA / EUMETSAT ...
NASA launched the Psyche spacecraft on 13 October 2023, an orbiter mission that will explore the origin of planetary cores by studying the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche, on a Falcon Heavy launch vehicle. On November 1, NASA's Lucy probe performed a flyby of asteroid 152830 Dinkinesh, revealing it to be a binary pair. [3] [4]
23 March: Launch failure Maiden flight of Terran 1. The second stage engine failed to properly ignite. Terran 1 was retired after this first and only flight of the rocket. 23 March 06:40:11 [89] Soyuz-2.1a: Plesetsk Site 43/3: RVSN RF: Bars-M 4L (Kosmos 2567) VKS: Low Earth Reconnaissance: In orbit: Operational 24 March 09:14 [90] Electron "The ...
Discovery STS-120 launch, October 23, 2007 Astronauts Andrew Feustel (right) and Michael Fincke, outside the ISS during the STS-134 mission's third spacewalk. Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt standing next to a boulder at Taurus-Littrow. Astronaut Peter Wisoff on a robotic arm, 1993. NASA has successfully launched over 200 crewed flights.
15 June 02:14 [23] Dnepr Baikonur Site 109/95 ISC Kosmotras TerraSAR-X: DLR: Low Earth Radar imaging: In orbit: Operational 15 June 15:04 [23] Atlas V 401 Cape Canaveral SLC-41 United Launch Alliance USA-194 NRO: Low Earth Ocean surveillance: In orbit: Partial launch failure Operational USA-194 (NOSS-3-4B) NRO Low Earth Ocean surveillance: In orbit
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA / ˈ n æ s ə /) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.