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Location Ship Class Notes 3 January United States: Donald McKay: East Boston, Massachusetts: McKay: Clipper: For Black Ball Line. [1] 4 January United Kingdom: Messrs. T. Metcalfe & Sons South Shields: Mary Russell Mitford: Barque: For Messrs. T. Metcalfe & Sons. [2] 4 January United Kingdom: Messrs. Wigram's Poplar: Southern Cross: Missionary ...
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;
This is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which include warships, yachts, tall ships, and vessels recovered during archaeological excavations, all date to between 500 AD and 1918; earlier ships are covered in the list of surviving ancient ships.
The United States has developed many space programs since the beginning of the spaceflight era in the mid-20th century. The government runs space programs by three primary agencies: NASA for civil space; the United States Space Force for military space; and the National Reconnaissance Office for intelligence space.
Indian Space Research Organisation, India's national space agency, maintains an active space program. It operates a small commercial launch service and launched a successful uncrewed lunar mission dubbed Chandrayaan-1 in October 2007. India successfully launched an interplanetary mission, Mars Orbiter Mission, in 2013 which reached Mars in ...
First communication between two crewed space vehicles in orbit. First person to float freely in microgravity. USSR Vostok 3 and Vostok 4: 18 August 1962 First auroral research rocket launched into the ionosphere. Norway: Ferdinand 1: November 1962: First Mars flyby (11,000 km) but contact was lost. USSR Mars 1: 14 December 1962
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NASA and the Space Force's predecessors in the Air Force have a long-standing cooperative relationship, with the Space Force supporting NASA launches out of Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, and Vandenberg Space Force Base, to include range support and rescue operations from Task Force 45. [188]