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The Constellation program (abbreviated CxP) was a crewed spaceflight program developed by NASA, the space agency of the United States, from 2005 to 2009.The major goals of the program were "completion of the International Space Station" and a "return to the Moon no later than 2020" with a crewed flight to the planet Mars as the ultimate goal.
Artist's rendition of the docking of Orion to the ISS Ares I-X launches from LC-39B, 15:30 UTC, October 28, 2009.. The Constellation Program was NASA's planned future human spaceflight program between 2005 and 2009, which aimed to develop a new crewed spacecraft and a pair of launchers (Ares I and Ares V) to continue servicing the International Space Station and return to the Moon.
However, the Constellation program, including Ares I, was cancelled by U.S. president Barack Obama in October 2010 with the passage of his 2010 NASA authorization bill. In September 2011, NASA detailed the Space Launch System as its new vehicle for human exploration beyond Earth's orbit.
4 March 2010, 23:57: Delta IV-M+(4,2) CCAFS SLC-37B: 61.7° E (Formerly 89.5° W, 135° W) 7 April 2010: Transferred [16]
However, the Constellation program, including Ares V and Ares I, was canceled in October 2010 by the NASA Authorization Act of 2010. In September 2011, NASA detailed the Space Launch System as its new vehicle for human exploration beyond Earth's orbit, [ 7 ] while commercial space companies would provide low Earth orbit access for both cargo ...
Discovery STS-120 launch, October 23, 2007 Astronauts Andrew Feustel (right) and Michael Fincke, outside the ISS during the STS-134 mission's third spacewalk. Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt standing next to a boulder at Taurus-Littrow. Astronaut Peter Wisoff on a robotic arm, 1993. NASA has successfully launched over 200 crewed flights.
25 September 2010 05:23 Soyuz TMA-18: 176.05 Fyodor Yurchikhin Shannon Walker Douglas H. Wheelock: 15 June 2010 21:35 Soyuz TMA-19: Transferred to Expedition 25 25: Fyodor Yurchikhin Shannon Walker Douglas H. Wheelock: Transferred from Expedition 24 26 November 2010 04:46 Soyuz TMA-19: 163.30 Aleksandr Kaleri Oleg Skripochka Scott Kelly: 7 ...
This is a detailed list of human spaceflights from 2001 to 2010, including the first full era of the International Space Station, first Shenzhou flights and first commercial space flights. Red indicates fatalities.