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On December 6, 1999, The United Nations General Assembly declared World Space Week as an annual event celebration to be commemorated between October 4 and 10. The choice of dates was based on recognition of two important dates in space history: the launch of the first human-made Earth satellite, Sputnik 1, on October 4, 1957; and the signing of the Outer Space Treaty on October 10, 1967.
China Manned Space Agency: Shenzhou 16: 20 July 2023 7:55 16 (tie) Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin: Roskosmos: Expedition 69: 19 April 2023 7:55 [3] 16 (tie) Michael Lopez-Alegria and Sunita Williams: NASA: Expedition 14: 31 January 2007 7:55 [3] 16 (tie) Tamara E. Jernigan and Daniel T. Barry: NASA: STS-96: 30 May 1999 7:55 [14] [3] 20 ...
Backdropped by a colorful Earth, astronaut Robert L. Curbeam, Jr. (left) and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Christer Fuglesang, both STS-116 mission specialists, participate in an EVA. This is a list of cumulative spacewalk records for the 30 astronauts who have the most extra-vehicular activity (EVA) time.
The first Native American woman to perform a space walk was Nicole Aunapu Mann on January 20, 2023, during Expedition 68 on the International Space Station. [ 26 ] The first EVA by a non-Soviet, non-American was made on December 9, 1988, by Jean-Loup Chrétien of France during a three-week stay on the Mir space station.
Jared Isaacman arrives at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Aug. 19 to prepare for the Polaris Dawn mission, featuring the first space walk by civilians.
The Bharatiya Antariksh Hackathon 2024 is a key feature of the National Space Day-2024 celebrations, aiming to discover innovative ideas and solutions in Space Tech. As India continues to advance in space research and exploration, this premier event seeks to inspire the next generation of innovators to contribute to the nation's space missions.
But to this day some claim it never happened: seven percent of respondents, in some polls collected as recently as 2013. That's about one in every 15 people you meet -- potentially millions of ...
Order Image Country Name Spacewalks # walks 1: USSR : Alexei Leonov 1934–2019: 1965: Voskhod 2 1 2: U.S. Ed White 1930–1967: 1965: Gemini 4 1 3: U.S. Eugene Cernan 1934–2017: 1966: Gemini 9A