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TLON Space 10 m 25: N/A N/A N/A Launch platform 2025 Blue Whale 1 South Korea: Perigee Aerospace: 21 m 165 [152] N/A 185 to SSO Partially reusable: CETACEA 1 sea launch platform [153] Esrange: 2024 [154] 195 [152] 220 to SSO Expendable: Cosmos Russia: SR space: 18.5 m 390: N/A 310 to SSO N/A Vostochny, Yasny: TBA Cyclone-4M Ukraine: Yuzhnoye ...
Arthur Rudolph became the project director of the Saturn V rocket program in August 1963. He developed the requirements for the rocket system and the mission plan for the Apollo program. The first Saturn V launch lifted off from Kennedy Space Center and performed flawlessly on November 9, 1967, Rudolph's birthday. [40]
Space Shuttle, Orion, Apollo CSM: Active Upper ... Saturn V: 1st RP-1 / ... 5.97: Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster [k]
The 397-foot-tall rocket blasted off from SpaceX's Boca Chica, Texas, flight facility on the Texas Gulf Coast at 8:25 a.m. EDT, putting on a spectacular sunrise show as the booster's 33 methane ...
A Saturn V rocket, one of the most powerful operational launch vehicles to date. This article compares different orbital launcher families (launchers which are significantly different from other members of the same 'family' have separate entries).
Saturn IB Saturn V: 3: 8.5: 3.91: 5,500 CM + 14,700 LM + 24,500 Service Module: Fuel cells Parachute splashdown (two drogues, three pilots, three mains) 1967 (1966) 1975: 15 (4) [note 3] Space Shuttle orbiter USA: Rockwell International: LEO: Space Shuttle: 8 [note 4] 37.24: 4.8 [note 5] 109,000: Fuel cells Runway landing (with one pilot and ...
With the advent of the Space Shuttle program in the early 1980s, the original structure of the launch pads were remodeled for the needs of the Space Shuttle.Pad 39A hosted all Space Shuttle launches until January 1986, when Space Shuttle Challenger would become the first to launch from pad 39B during the ill-fated STS-51-L mission, which ended with the destruction of Challenger and the death ...
Apollo abort modes were procedures by which the nominal launch of an Apollo spacecraft, either the Saturn IB or Saturn V rocket, could be terminated. The abort of the flight allowed for the rescue of the crew if the rocket failed catastrophically. Depending on how far the flight had progressed, different procedure or modes would be used.