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When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (or NASA's Greatest Missions: When We Left Earth in the UK) is a 2008 Discovery Channel HD documentary miniseries consisting of six episodes documenting American human spaceflight from the first Mercury flights and the Gemini program, to the Apollo program and its Moon missions and landings, to the Space Shuttle missions and the construction of the ...
The programme carried out six crewed spaceflights between 1961 and 1963. The program was the first program to put humans into space, with Yuri Gagarin becoming the first man in space on April 12, 1961, aboard the Vostok 1. [79] Gherman Titov became the first person to stay in orbit for a full day on August 7, 1961, aboard the Vostok 2. [80]
She participated in the Teacher in Space Project as backup to Christa McAuliffe for the 1986 ill-fated STS-51-L mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger. In 1998, eight years after the Teacher in Space Project had ended, she was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate, training as a mission specialist ; astronaut Morgan flew on STS-118 in ...
Enos being prepared for insertion into the Mercury-Atlas 5 capsule in 1961. Enos’ space capsule during the Mercury-Atlas 5 mission, on display at the Museum of Life and Science, in Durham, North Carolina. Enos (born about 1957 – died November 4, 1962) was a chimpanzee launched into space by NASA, following his predecessor Ham.
[13] 20 September 03:51 3 hours 13 minutes 07:05 Mir EO-14 Kvant-2: Vasily Tsibliyev Aleksandr Serebrov Completed assembly of the Rapana truss. 28 September 00:57 1 hour 52 minutes 02:48 Mir EO-14 Kvant-2: Vasily Tsibliyev Aleksandr Serebrov Inspected the Mir exterior for damage from the recent Perseid meteoroid shower. The most notable damage ...
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The mission, called Polaris Dawn, is slated to take off as soon as Wednesday between 3:30 a.m. and 7:09 a.m. ET after Tuesday morning’s launch attempt was waived off because of issues with ...
First billionaire in space, orbital space; first space tourist to the International Space Station [3] [1] [4] Mark Shuttleworth: Space Adventures ISS EP-3 (Soyuz TM-34/TM-33) 25 April 2002: 2 May 2002: First insured space tourist; First South African, first person from Africa in space, orbital space; second space tourist to the International ...