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Artist's conception of OAO-1 in orbit Technicians in a clean room check out the OAO 2 before the mission’s 7 December 1968, launch. Artist's conception of OAO-B in orbit OAO-3 in the clean room The Orbiting Astronomical Observatory ( OAO ) satellites were a series of four American space observatories launched by NASA between 1966 and 1972 ...
The last orbital launch from San Marco was on 25 March 1988 by US Scout G-1 and there are no further launches scheduled. Australia with the first successful launch from Woomera Test Range of its first satellite WRESAT on 29 November 1967 by US Sparta. [11]
This article lists orbital and suborbital launches during the first half of the year 2025. For all other spaceflight activities, see 2025 in spaceflight. For launches in the second half of 2024, see List of spaceflight launches in July–December 2025.
Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) was the first crewed American orbital spaceflight, which took place on February 20, 1962. [4] Piloted by astronaut John Glenn and operated by NASA as part of Project Mercury, it was the fifth human spaceflight, preceded by Soviet orbital flights Vostok 1 and 2 and American sub-orbital flights Mercury-Redstone 3 and 4.
Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union.
First launch from Earth orbit of upper stage into a heliocentric orbit First mid-course corrections First spin-stabilisation: Venera 1: 1961 April 12 USSR First human spaceflight mission (Yuri Gagarin) [2] First orbital flight of a manned vehicle Vostok 1: 1961 May 5 USA First pilot-controlled space flight (Alan Shepard) Freedom 7: 1961 May 19 USSR
Crewed orbital spaceflight studied; First nuclear warhead launched on a missile; Atlas, Titan, Redstone programs going strong; China begins missile development; The race to launch a satellite heats up; Japan's first substantial sounding rocket launched, the Kappa-1, but nation wouldn't go to space until the Kappa-8 in 1960
First Earth orbiter [1] [2] Sputnik 2: 3 November 1957 Earth orbiter, first animal in orbit, a dog named Laika [2] [3] [4] Explorer 1: 1 February 1958 Earth orbiter; discovered Van Allen radiation belts [5] Vanguard 1: 17 March 1958 Earth orbiter; oldest spacecraft still in Earth orbit [6] Luna 1: 2 January 1959