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United Launch Alliance, LLC (ULA) is an American launch service provider formed in December 2006 as a joint venture between Lockheed Martin Space and Boeing Defense, Space & Security. The company designs, assembles, sells and launches rockets, but the company subcontracts out the production of rocket engines and solid rocket boosters .
[33]: 44 [BR] This aeroplane was designed for sports competitions and 300 were built in several European countries and in the United States. [34]: 98 His schemes were published in the June–July 1910 issues of Popular Mechanics. [55]: 10 This plane consolidated Santos-Dumont's role in the birth of aviation in the 20th century.
Notable test flights of spaceflight systems may be listed even if they were not planned to reach space. Some lists are further divided into orbital launches (sending a payload into orbit, whether successful or not) and suborbital flights (e.g. ballistic missiles, sounding rockets, experimental spacecraft).
Jupiter 3 March 1972 3 December 1973 641 days (1 yr, 9 mos, 1 d) Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to fly by Jupiter. [86] Pioneer 11: Jupiter 6 April 1973 4 December 1974 608 days (1 yr, 7 mo, 29 d) Pioneer 11 flew by Jupiter. [87] Saturn 1 September 1979 2340 days (6 yr, 4 mo, 27 d) Pioneer 11 was the first spacecraft to fly by Saturn. Mars ...
Launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-34, carrying Galileo into Earth orbit. On December 19, 1985, it departed the JPL in Pasadena, California, on the first leg of its journey, a road trip to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. [14] [15] Due to the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, the May launch date could not be met. [16]
The crash landing sites themselves are of interest to space archeology. Luna 1 , not itself a lunar orbiter, was the first spacecraft designed as an impactor . It failed to hit the Moon in 1959, however, thus inadvertently becoming the first man-made object to leave geocentric orbit and enter a heliocentric orbit , where it remains.
Joseph Albert Walker (February 20, 1921 – June 8, 1966) (Capt, USAF) was an American World War II pilot, experimental physicist, NASA test pilot, and astronaut who was the first person to fly an airplane to space.
The Chinese National Space Administration plans to launch two Interstellar Express missions in 2024 on a flyby of Jupiter [6] [7] and Tianwen-4 around 2029 to explore the planet and Callisto. [ 8 ] A list of previous and upcoming missions to the outer Solar System (including Jupiter) can be found at the List of missions to the outer planets ...