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On 15 September, the Firefly Alpha made its successful flight for a tactically responsive mission for the U.S. Space Force. [27] On November 18, 2023, SpaceX Starship attempted its second flight test, becoming the heaviest rocket to enter space, although the first stage exploded shortly after separation, while the second stage was lost nearly ...
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 ...
8 September 2023 Galactic 03. Reached an altitude of 88.56 km (55 mi), crossing the U.S. definition of space. 354 Oleg Kononenko (5) Nikolai Chub: 15 September 2023, Soyuz MS-24: ISS (69/70/71) 23 September 2024 Soyuz MS-25: ISS crew rotation. Loral O'Hara: ISS (crew 69/70) 6 April 2024, Soyuz MS-24 — Frederick Sturckow Kelly Latimer Beth ...
Nov. 8—Virgin Galactic announced Wednesday it would be scaling back and then pausing flights to space next year from Spaceport America and that the company instead will funnel resources into ...
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.
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All Russian human spaceflight missions thus far have been carried out using the Soyuz vehicle, and all visited either Mir or the International Space Station. The Roscosmos program is the successor to the Soviet space program. Numeration of the Soyuz flights therefore continues from previous Soviet Soyuz launches.
The period between the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011 and the first launch into space of SpaceShipTwo Flight VP-03 on 13 December 2018 is similar to the gap between the end of Apollo in 1975 and the first Space Shuttle flight in 1981, and is referred to by a presidential Blue Ribbon Committee as the U.S. human spaceflight gap.