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1633 - Lagâri Hasan Çelebi launched a 7-winged rocket using 50 okka (140 lbs) of gunpowder from Sarayburnu, the point below Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. [3]1650 - Artis Magnae Artilleriae pars prima ("Great Art of Artillery, the First Part") is printed in Amsterdam, about a year before the death of its author, Kazimierz Siemienowicz.
This is a timeline of space exploration which includes notable achievements, first accomplishments and milestones in humanity's exploration of outer space.. This timeline generally does not distinguish achievements by a specific country or private company, as it considers humanity as a whole.
The timeline contains all the flights which have either crossed the edge of space, were intended to do so but failed, or are planned in the near future. Notable test flights of spaceflight systems may be listed even if they were not planned to reach space.
Now that SpaceX has proved both Starship and Super Heavy can launch toward space and return to Earth in one piece, the company is on track to reduce rocket-launch costs by an estimated 10 times.
In 1929, the Slovene officer Hermann Noordung was the first to imagine a complete space station in his book The Problem of Space Travel. [7] [8] The first rocket to reach space was a German V-2 rocket, on a vertical test flight in June 1944. [9]
Rocket malfunction caused the spacecraft to get stranded in low Earth orbit. [4] November 18 US: Ranger 2: Atlas-Agena: Moon Failure: Booster rocket malfunction caused spacecraft to be trapped in low Earth orbit. [5] 1962 January 26 US: Ranger 3: Atlas-Agena: Moon Failure: NASA's first attempt to land a spacecraft on the Moon.
The rocket's design had a clustered first stage composed of five modified scud rockets strapped together and a single scud rocket as the second stage in addition to a SA-2 liquid-fueled rocket engine as the third stage. The video tape of a partial launch attempt which was retrieved by UN weapons inspectors, later surfaced showing that the ...
5 June 2024– ULA successfully launches an Atlas V rocket carrying the Boeing Starliner space capsule during the CFT mission, marking the Starliner operational to conduct crewed mission to orbit and visit the ISS. 21 June 2024 - Rocket Lab's Electron becomes the fastest privately developed orbital launch vehicle to 50 launches in history. [41]