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Date/Time (UTC) Source object Event type Pieces tracked Remarks 9 May [1]: Westford-2: Communications experiment 46 [1]: As part of an experiment to facilitate international telecommunications, the US Military deployed an artificial space ring consisting of hundreds of millions of tiny copper needles [2] which would act as antennas reflecting radio signals at the target wavelength of 8 GHz.
19 June 1963 Vostok 6: First woman in space. 13 Joseph A. Walker: 19 July 1963 Flight 90, X-15: First winged craft in space. Reached altitude of 106 km. 14 Joseph A. Walker: 22 August 1963 Flight 91, X-15: Reached altitude of 108 km. Walker becomes first person to fly into space twice. X-15-3 (serial 56-6672) becomes first vehicle to fly into ...
The first space rendezvous was accomplished by Gemini 6A and Gemini 7 in 1965.. Records and firsts in spaceflight are broadly divided into crewed and uncrewed categories. Records involving animal spaceflight have also been noted in earlier experimental flights, typically to establish the feasibility of sending humans to outer space.
There is a separate list for all flights that occurred before 1951. The 2024 list and lists for subsequent years contain planned launches, but statistics only include past launches. For the purpose of these lists, a spaceflight is defined as any flight that crosses the Kármán line , the FAI -recognized edge of space, which is 100 kilometres ...
The Spacefacts list includes most flights listed here, but omits twelve: The three failed launches of STS-51-L, Soyuz T-10a and Soyuz MS-10, none of which achieved human spaceflight, the uncrewed launch of Soyuz 34 (which nevertheless returned a crew to Earth), and the eight sub-orbital human spaceflights: Mercury-Redstone 3 and 4, X-15 flights ...
1963 June 16 USSR First woman in space (Valentina Tereshkova) First civilian in space Vostok 6: 1963 June 19 USSR First Mars flyby, although contact was lost Mars 1: 1963 July 19 USA First reusable piloted spacecraft First spaceplane (suborbital) X-15 Flight 90: 1963 July 26 USA First geosynchronous satellite: Syncom 2: 1964 August 19 USA
First crewed flight End date No. of crewed missions launched Notes Mercury program: 1958 1961: 1963: 6: First U.S. crewed program Gemini program: 1961 1965: 1966: 10: Program used to practice space rendezvous and EVAs: Apollo program: 1960 1968: 1972: 11: Landed first humans on the Moon Skylab: 1964 1973: 1974: 3: First American space station ...
In the history of motion pictures in the United States, many films have been set in Los Angeles respectively in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, or a fictionalized version thereof. The following is a list of some of the more memorable films set in Los Angeles, however the list includes a number of films which only have a tenuous connection to ...