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Full-rigged ship: For John Hay. [8] [92] 3 May United Kingdom: Messrs. Samuelson & Co. Hull: Ernestine: Steamship: For private owner. [93] 3 May United Kingdom: Messrs. John Scott Russell & Co. Millwall: Etna: Aetna-class ironclad floating battery: For Royal Navy. Caught fire and self-launched, damaged beyond repair. [94] 3 May France: Lorient ...
List of ship launches in 1855; A. French ship Algésiras (1855) Alhambra (1855) Andrew Jackson (clipper) SS Arago (1855) French ship Arcole (1855) USCS Arctic;
The list for the year 2025 and for its subsequent years may contain planned launches, but the statistics will only include past launches. For the purpose of these lists, a spaceflight is defined as any flight that crosses the Kármán line, the FAI-recognized edge of space, which is 100 kilometres (62 miles) above mean sea level (AMSL). [1]
First consistently inhabited long-term research space station. USSR Mir: 13 March 1986: First close up observations of a comet (Halley's Comet, 596 kilometers). ESA Giotto: July 1988: First suspected detection of an exoplanet (Gamma Cephei Ab). [note 3] Canada: Astronomers Bruce Campbell, Gordon Walker and Stephenson Yang. [39] 8 August 1989
The site tested the largest solid rocket motor ever fired as part of the Apollo Program and Camden County, Georgia was originally considered as a NASA launch site in the 1960s. Spaceport Camden began limited development as a rocket launch facility in early 2014, with its first launch taking place in August 2017, reaching 5,000 ft (1,524 m).
Mir was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996. It had a greater mass than any previous spacecraft. At the time it was the largest artificial satellite in orbit, succeeded by the International Space Station (ISS) after Mir's orbit decayed.
The first space rendezvous was accomplished by Gemini 6A and Gemini 7 in 1965.. Records and firsts in spaceflight are broadly divided into crewed and uncrewed categories. Records involving animal spaceflight have also been noted in earlier experimental flights, typically to establish the feasibility of sending humans to outer space.
Coca-Cola was launched here in 1886 and grew into an Atlanta-based world empire. Electric streetcars arrived in 1889, [ 1 ] and the city added new " streetcar suburbs ". The city's elite black colleges were founded between 1865 and 1885, and despite disenfranchisement and the later imposition of Jim Crow laws in the 1910s, a prosperous black ...