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Oliver Daemen (born 20 August 2002 [citation needed]) is a Dutch space tourist [1] [2] who flew as part of the 20 July 2021, sub-orbital Blue Origin NS-16 spaceflight. [3] [4] [5] At the time of his flight he was 18 years old, [6] and became the youngest person, first teenager, and first person born in the 21st century to travel to space.
These cylinders have a height of 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in), a thickness of 4 mm (0.16 in) and a mass of 1,600 kg (3,500 lb) each. [18] Domes inside the spacecraft separate the methane and oxygen tanks. [ 18 ]
The Castor 30B produces 293.4 kN (65,960 lb f) average and 395.7 kN (88,960 lb f) maximum thrust, and uses electromechanical thrust vector control. [8] For increased performance, the larger Castor 30XL is available [ 30 ] and will be used on ISS resupply flights to allow Antares to carry the Enhanced Cygnus.
Inspiration4. Inspiration4 (stylized as Inspiratiā£n) was a 2021 human spaceflight operated by SpaceX on behalf of Shift4 Payments CEO Jared Isaacman. [3] The mission launched the Crew Dragon Resilience on 16 September 2021 at 00:02:56 UTC [a] from Kennedy Space Center 's Launch Complex 39A atop a Falcon 9 launch vehicle.
SpaceX Crew-5 was the fifth operational NASA Commercial Crew Program flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, and the eighth overall crewed orbital flight. The mission was successfully launched on 5 October 2022 with the aim of transporting four crew members to the International Space Station (ISS). The Crew Dragon spacecraft docked at the ISS on 6 ...
Guion Bluford. Guion Stewart Bluford Jr. (born November 22, 1942) is an American aerospace engineer, retired United States Air Force (USAF) officer and fighter pilot, and former NASA astronaut, in which capacity he became the first African American to go to space. [1][2][a] While assigned to NASA, he remained a USAF officer rising to the rank ...
SpaceX Crew-5 →. SpaceX Crew-4 was the Crew Dragon's fourth NASA Commercial Crew operational flight, and its seventh overall crewed orbital flight. The mission launched on 27 April 2022 at 07:52 UTC [6] before docking with the International Space Station (ISS) at 23:37 UTC. It followed shortly after the private Axiom 1 mission to the ISS ...
Deliver 1 astronaut and 3 space tourists to the ISS for a ten-day flight; fifth operational flight of Crew Dragon. 109. Deliver 4 astronauts to the ISS for a six-month flight; sixth operational flight of Crew Dragon. 110.