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SpaceX Zuma mission patch USA-280 (codenamed " Zuma ") was a classified United States government satellite that was launched by SpaceX on 8 January 2018, on the 47th flight of the Falcon 9 rocket. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The National Reconnaissance Office was in charge of the Zuma project, [ 5 ] though its purpose has not been disclosed.
A mission patch is a cloth reproduction of a spaceflight mission emblem worn by astronauts and other personnel affiliated with that mission. It is usually executed as an embroidered patch . The term space patch is mostly applied to an emblem designed for a crewed space mission.
Skylab 3 (also SL-3 and SLM-2 [2]) was the second crewed mission to the first American space station, Skylab.The mission began on July 28, 1973, with the launch of NASA astronauts Alan Bean, Owen Garriott, and Jack Lousma in the Apollo command and service module on the Saturn IB rocket, and lasted 59 days, 11 hours and 9 minutes. [3]
The rocket carrying the student work is scheduled to launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 9 at 7:28 p.m., Central ... SSEP Mission 17 experiment and mission patches blasting ...
Gemini 5 doubled the U.S. space-flight record of the Gemini 4 mission to eight days, the length of time it would take to fly to the Moon, land and return. This was possible due to new fuel cells that generated enough electricity to power longer missions, a pivotal innovation for future Apollo flights, instead of the chemical batteries used on ...
More than 50 years after humans first began soft-landing spacecraft on the moon, it remains a treacherous feat with more than half of missions failing. Here’s why.
STS-51-L was the disastrous 25th mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the final flight of Space Shuttle Challenger. It was planned as the first Teacher in Space Project flight in addition to observing Halley's Comet for six days and performing a routine satellite deployment.
Starliner astronauts got a much longer stay at ISS. SpaceX caught a rocket booster. Here's a look back at the most pivotal space missions from 2024.