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On 29 June 2023, Virgin Galactic flew their first commercial suborbital spaceflight mission, Galactic 01, with their suborbital spaceplane VSS Unity. Onboard Unity were three employees of the company and three passengers (whose flight had been paid from outside the company) from the Italian Air Force and Italy’s National Research Council. [12]
This article lists orbital and suborbital launches planned for the second half of the year 2023, including launches planned for 2023 without a specific launch date. For all other spaceflight activities, see 2023 in spaceflight. For launches in the first half of 2023, see List of spaceflight launches in January–June 2023.
The Spacefacts list includes most flights listed here, but omits twelve: The three failed launches of STS-51-L, Soyuz T-10a and Soyuz MS-10, none of which achieved human spaceflight, the uncrewed launch of Soyuz 34 (which nevertheless returned a crew to Earth), and the eight sub-orbital human spaceflights: Mercury-Redstone 3 and 4, X-15 flights ...
2 March 2023 SpaceX Crew-6, Endeavour: ISS (crew 68/69) 4 September 2023 SpaceX Crew-6, Endeavour: ISS crew rotation. 351 Peggy Whitson (4) John Shoffner Ali AlQarni Rayyanah Barnawi: 21 May 2023 Axiom Mission 2, Freedom: ISS: 31 May 2023 Axiom Mission 2, Freedom — Michael Masucci Frederick W. Sturckow Beth Moses Luke Mays Jamila Gilbert ...
U.S. Space Shuttle missions were capable of carrying more humans and cargo than the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, resulting in more U.S. short-term human visits until the Space Shuttle program was discontinued in 2011. Between 2011 and 2020, Soyuz was the sole means of human transport to the ISS, delivering mostly long-term crew.
Fifth crewed flight to the Tiangong space station. 30 May 21:27 [180] Chŏllima 1: Sohae: NADA: Malligyong-1: KCST: Low Earth: Reconnaissance: 30 May 2023: Launch failure Maiden flight of the Chollima-1 launch vehicle. Launch failed after an abnormal ignition of the second stage. 31 May 06:02:30 [182] Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 2-10 ...
Flight Mission Crew Crew photo Crew patch Mission Start Mission End Notes Tiangong Space Station; 12 Shenzhou 20: TBA TBA TBA Planned: April 2025: Deliver 3 astronauts to the Tiangong space station; ninth crewed mission to the Tiangong space station.
Arrival Flight Departure (UTC) Departure Flight Duration (days) 1: Yuri Gidzenko Sergei Krikalev William Shepherd: 2 November 2000 09:21 Soyuz TM-31: 21 March 2001 07:33 STS-102: 141 2: Yury Usachov James S. Voss Susan Helms: 8 March 2001 11:42 STS-102: 22 August 2001 19:24 STS-105: 167.28 3: Frank L. Culbertson Jr. Mikhail Tyurin Vladimir ...