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IM-1 Nova-C Odysseus launched on 15 February 2024 towards the Moon via Falcon 9 on a direct intercept trajectory and later landed in the south polar region of the Moon on 22 February 2024 and became the first successful private lander and the first to do so using cryogenic propellants. Though it landed successfully, one of the lander's legs ...
Sixth Tianzhou resupply cargo flight to the Tiangong space station. 18 January 21:49:11 [21] Falcon 9 Block 5 F9-291 Kennedy LC-39A: SpaceX Ax-3: SpaceX / Axiom Space: Low Earth Private spaceflight: 9 February 13:30: Successful Axiom Mission 3, launching on Crew Dragon. 14-day commercial flight of four astronauts to the ISS. [20] 20 January 06: ...
The Space Flight Operations Facility (SFOF) is a building containing a control room and related computing and communications equipment areas at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. NASA's Deep Space Network is operated from this facility. The SFOF has monitored and controlled all interplanetary and deep space exploration for ...
In June 2024, space tourism pioneer Virgin Galactic ... (Virgin Galactic's earlier tickets sold for less than $250,000 apiece, whereas tickets sold more recently have been going for $450,000 and ...
As of Wednesday, Feb. 16, you can buy a ticket for a spaceflight on Virgin Galactic. That is, if you have $450,000 to spare. See: Elon Musk, Happy With Tesla, Says SpaceX So Difficult, 'I Wonder...
The 400-foot behemoth, composed of both a 165-foot Starship spacecraft itself and the 232-foot "Super Heavy" rocket, is due in the years ahead to play a pivotal role in NASA's lunar ambitions and ...
On 11 July 2021, founder Richard Branson and three other employees rode on VSS Unity 22 as passengers, marking the first time a spaceflight company founder has travelled on his own ship into outer space. [12] In February 2022, Virgin Galactic announced that it was opening ticket sales to the public. [13] The price of a reservation was $450,000 ...
This article lists orbital and suborbital launches planned for the second half of the year 2024, including launches planned for 2024 without a specific launch date. For all other spaceflight activities, see 2024 in spaceflight. For launches in the first half of 2024, see List of spaceflight launches in January–June 2024.