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Private spaceflight refers to spaceflight developments that are not conducted by a government agency, such as NASA or ESA.. During the early decades of the Space Age, the government space agencies of the Soviet Union and United States pioneered space technology in collaboration with affiliated design bureaus in the USSR and private companies in the US.
Retired (12 flights) XA-0.1E2: commercial flights Destroyed (115 flights) XA-0.1E4: commercial flights Retired (75 flights) XA-0.1E5: commercial flights Operational XL-1T: terrestrial test bed for the XL-1 lunar lander Development Xeus: commercial flights Cancelled McDonnell Douglas: DC-X: demonstrate VTOL Retired (11 test flights) Origin Space ...
16 November 1992 – Space Flight Europe-America 500, an orbital mission consisting of a space capsule bearing gifts from Russia to the United States, is launched by the Russian company TsSKB-Progress aboard a Soyuz rocket, before landing six days later off the coast of Grays Harbor in the United States. [12]
Private space missions (2 C, 23 P) S. SpaceShipOne (8 P) Pages in category "Private spaceflight" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total.
Though international cooperation and international private spaceflight remains an integral part of the sector, but competitively diversifying commercial international contracting, such as international private human spaceflight of e.g. Axiom Space in cooperation with different countries and heavily relying on the International Space Station.
This suborbital flight marked the first ever human space flight from New Mexico; it was piloted by CJ Sturkow (pilot-in-command) and Dave MacKay. The VSS Unity was carried to 44,000 feet by the jet powered launch aircraft Mothership Eve, where it was released to reach its suborbital altitude over New Mexico. [78]
Pages in category "Private spaceflight companies" ... ABL Space Systems; Ad Astra Rocket Company; AgniKul Cosmos; AirLaunch; American Satellite Corporation; Ananth ...
During X-15 Flight 191, Adams' seventh flight, the plane had an electrical problem followed by control problems at the apogee of its flight. The pilot may also have become disoriented. During reentry from a 266,000 ft (50.4 mile, 81.1 km) apogee, the X-15 yawed and went into a spin at Mach 5.