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A total of four launches of Black Arrow were performed between 1969 and 1971, the first two being demonstration flights to prove the launcher's capabilities. While the first and third flights were failures, the second and fourth flights were successful.
Black Arrow United Kingdom: RAE: 13 m 73 [14] No 2 (+2) WRC: 1969 [b] 1971 Blue Scout II ... Date of flight LEO GTO Other First Last Delta 0300
Orba, also known as X-2, was intended to be the first satellite launched by a British rocket. It was launched at 00:34 GMT on 2 September 1970, atop a Black Arrow rocket from Launch Area 5B at Woomera, but failed to reach orbit after the second stage of the carrier rocket shut down 13 seconds early. [1]
Pages in category "1969 in spaceflight" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. ... Black Arrow; C. Gene Cernan; Michael Collins (astronaut) E.
Longest Crewed flight involving only one spacecraft. (As of 09/06/06) 1 June 19:00 Black Arrow Woomera RAE Orba: RAE Low Earth Micrometeoroid detection satellite: In orbit: Failure: First British attempt to launch a satellite. Failed to reach orbit after premature 2nd stage cutout. 10 June: Voskhod: Site 31/6, Baikonur: Kosmos 346 (Zenit-4 #72 ...
1969 saw humanity step onto another world for the first time. On 20 July 1969, the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, Eagle, landed on the Moon's surface with two astronauts aboard. . Days later the crew of three returned safely to Earth, satisfying U.S. President John F. Kennedy's challenge of 25 May 1961, that "this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of ...
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Braniff International Airways Flight 352 was a scheduled domestic flight from William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas, United States, to Dallas Love Field in Dallas; on May 3, 1968, a Lockheed L-188A Electra flying on the route, registration N9707C, broke up in midair and crashed near Dawson, Texas, after flying into a severe thunderstorm.