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During X-15 Flight 191, Adams' seventh flight, the plane had an electrical problem followed by control problems at the apogee of its flight. The pilot may also have become disoriented. During reentry from a 266,000 ft (50.4 mile, 81.1 km) apogee, the X-15 yawed and went into a spin at Mach 5.
v. t. e. Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin[ a ][ b ] (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first human to journey into outer space. Travelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961, with his flight taking 108 minutes.
The effects of spaceflight on the human body are complex and largely harmful over both short and long term. [ 1 ] Significant adverse effects of long-term weightlessness include muscle atrophy and deterioration of the skeleton (spaceflight osteopenia). [ 2 ] Other significant effects include a slowing of cardiovascular system functions ...
The spacecraft definitively confirmed that humans cannot survive on the surface of Venus, and excluded the possibility of any liquid water on Venus. Venera 8. USSR. 22 July 1972. Within 150 km radius of 10°42′S335°15′E / 10.70°S 335.25°E / -10.70; Soft landing; transmitted from surface for 50 minutes.
Soyuz 11 (‹See Tfd› Russian: Союз 11, lit. 'Union 11') was the only crewed mission to board the world's first space station, Salyut 1. [a][5] The crew, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev, [6][7][8] arrived at the space station on 7 June 1971, and departed on 29 June 1971. The mission ended in disaster when the ...
Kalpana Chawla (17 March 1962 – 1 February 2003) [2] was an Indian-born American astronaut and aerospace engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to fly to space. [3][4] She first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator aboard STS-87. [5]
7: Anatoly Solovyev, during Expedition 24 on the Soviet/Russian space station Mir, in 1997–98. (Two were internal "spacewalks" inside a depressurized module.) 7: Andrew Morgan, during his first spaceflight on board the ISS for Expedition 60 / 61 / 62 in 2019–2020, he spent 45 hours and 48 minutes outside the station.
Space burials launch cremated remains out of the atmosphere. Space burialis the launching of human remains into space. Missions may go into orbit around the Earth or to extraterrestrial bodies such as the Moon, or farther into space. Remains are sealed until the spacecraft burns up upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere or they reach their ...