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Two crewed space stations, the International Space Station (ISS) and Tiangong, are in operation in 2024. In terms of crewed missions, the ISS will be visited by Expedition 70 , 71 , and 72 , while Shenzhou 18 and 19 will visit Tiangong.
Retrieved 6 August 2024. The Crew-9 mission is now expected to launch from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This will be the first crewed launch from this complex, which SpaceX has built up in addition to its crew tower at Launch Complex 39A at nearby Kennedy Space Center.
List of spaceflight launches in January–June 2024; List of spaceflight launches in July–December 2024
As of 2024, the Apollo Lunar Module is the only lunar lander to have ever been used in human spaceflight, completing six lunar landings from 1969 to 1972 during the United States' Apollo Program. Several robotic landers have reached the surface, and some have returned samples to Earth.
The year 2024 is expected to exceed 2023's 223 orbital launches. So far, the year saw the successful first launch of Vulcan Centaur, Gravity-1, Ariane 6 (partially successful), and notably more developmental launches of SpaceX 's Starship – with IFT-3, IFT-4, IFT-5, and IFT-6 planned for this year.
Two crewed space stations, the International Space Station (ISS) and Tiangong, are in operation in 2024. In terms of crewed missions, the ISS will be visited by Expedition 70, 71, and 72, while Shenzhou 18 and 19 will visit Tiangong. The ISS also hosted the private crew of Axiom Mission 3.
2024 is a busy year for spaceflight and exploration enthusiasts with countless launches, mission milestones and skywatching events to look forward to. With so much going on, it's hard to keep...
Orbital launch stats from around the world.
So let’s see what’s coming our way in terms of launches, astronomical events, and spaceflight. We’ll start with the obvious. Astronomical Events. The elephant in the room for 2024 astronomical events is the April 8 th total solar eclipse of the Sun. The path of the Moon’s shadow, known as the path of totality, will cut across a swath of ...
Category. : 2024 in spaceflight. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. English: 2024 in Spaceflight. Deutsch: 2024 in der Raumfahrt. Svenska: Rymdfartsåret 2024. Spaceflight in the 2020s. ←.