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In terms of national-level scientific space missions, this year is a focal year on lunar exploration. 2022 saw the launch of NASA's CAPSTONE orbiter, KARI's Danuri orbiter and NASA's Artemis 1, the first mission of the Artemis program.
The longest orbital flight of the Shuttle was STS-80 at 17 days 15 hours, while the shortest flight was STS-51-L at one minute 13 seconds when the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart during launch. The cold morning shrunk an O-Ring on the right Solid Rocket Booster causing the external fuel tank to explode.
U.S. Space Shuttle missions were capable of carrying more humans and cargo than the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, resulting in more U.S. short-term human visits until the Space Shuttle program was discontinued in 2011. Between 2011 and 2020, Soyuz was the sole means of human transport to the ISS, delivering mostly long-term crew.
The ELaNa 45 mission, consisting of four CubeSats, was launched on this flight. [16] [17] TUMnanoSAT was Moldova's first satellite. [18] TUMnanoSAT, FUTABA, and HSU-SAT1 were deployed into orbit from the ISS on 12 August 2022. [19] D3, JAGSAT, CapSat-1, BeaverCube, and CLICK A were deployed into orbit from the ISS on 6 September 2022. [20] 15 July
The positioning had to be precise. The shuttle's nose was raised 200 feet into the night sky so that the rudder could clear 80 feet of space. Endeavour was then turned 17 degrees clockwise to ...
27 April 2022 07:52:55 SpaceX Crew-4: Transferred to Expedition 68 Sergey Prokopyev Dmitry Petelin Francisco Rubio: 21 September 2022 13:54 Soyuz MS-22: 68: Kjell Lindgren Bob Hines Samantha Cristoforetti [note 7] Jessica Watkins: Transferred from Expedition 67 14 October 2022 20:55 SpaceX Crew-4: 170.5 Sergey Prokopyev [42] Dmitry Petelin ...
The Space Shuttle Columbia was lost as it returned from a two-week mission when previously detected damage to the shuttle's thermal protection system (TPS) resulted in the spacecraft breaking apart during reentry at an altitude of just under 65 km and a speed of about Mach 19. Investigation revealed that a piece of foam insulation had fallen ...
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011.