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USA (NASA) OAO-2: 21 December 1968: First human excursion beyond low Earth orbit. First in-person observations of Earth from a distance. First Trans-Earth injection. USA (NASA) Apollo 8 [21] 24 December 1968 First human flight to another celestial body (the Moon) and to enter its gravitational influence. USA (NASA) Apollo 8 [21] January 1969
NASA Low Earth Solar: 2 December 1989: Successful Spacecraft's attitude control system malfunctioned ten months after launch, subsequently repaired by Space Shuttle Challenger during STS-41-C in April 1984 17 February 00:40 Mu-3S: Kagoshima LA-M: ISAS: Tansei-4: ISAS Low Earth Technology: 12 May 1983: Successful Maiden flight of Mu-3S 20 ...
This is a list of NASA missions, both crewed and robotic, since the establishment of NASA in 1957. There are over 80 currently active science missions. There are over 80 currently active science missions.
This is the timeline of known spaceflights, both crewed and uncrewed, sorted chronologically by launch date. Owing to its large size, the timeline is split into smaller articles, one for each year since 1951. There is a separate list for all flights that occurred before 1951.
The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the '80s" or "the Eighties") was the decade that began on January 1, 1980, and ended on December 31, 1989.. The decade saw a dominance of conservatism and free market economics, and a socioeconomic change due to advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and towards laissez-faire capitalism compared to the 1970s.
The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded for development. [ 1 ]
1 Before 1980. 2 1980s. 3 1990s. 4 2000s. 5 ... The following is a timeline of important events in the history of private ... which mandates NASA to encourage private ...
STS-1 (Space Transportation System-1) was the first orbital spaceflight of NASA's Space Shuttle program. The first orbiter , Columbia , launched on April 12, 1981, [ 1 ] and returned on April 14, 1981, 54.5 hours later, having orbited the Earth 37 times.