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Space programs of the United States date to the start of the Space Age in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Programs involve both crewed systems and uncrewed satellites, probes and platforms to meet diverse program objectives. From a definition perspective, the criteria for what constitutes spaceflight vary.
Project Vanguard. Project Vanguard was a program managed by the United States Navy Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), which intended to launch the first artificial satellite into low Earth orbit using a Vanguard rocket. [1] as the launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral Missile Annex, Florida. In response to the launch of Sputnik 1 on 4 October 1957 ...
White Flight Control Room prior to STS-114 in 2005 Exterior of the Mission Control building Emblem for NASA's Flight Operations Directorate (FOD). NASA's Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center (MCC-H, initially called Integrated Mission Control Center, or IMCC), also known by its radio callsign, Houston, is the facility at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, that ...
Program Start date 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 ...
Space Launch System (2022-present) RS1 (2023-present) Terran 1 (2023) SpaceX Starship (2023-present) Vulcan Centaur (2024-present) New Glenn (Under development, expected 2024) Rocket 4 (Under development, expected 2025) Neutron (Under development, expected 2025) Red Dwarf (Under development, expected 2024) Terran R (Under development, expected ...
Atlas (rocket family) Atlas is a family of US missiles and space launch vehicles that originated with the SM-65 Atlas. The Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program was initiated in the late 1950s under the Convair Division of General Dynamics. [ 2 ] Atlas was a liquid propellant rocket burning RP-1 kerosene fuel with liquid ...
Rockwell International (1967–1996) Boeing (1996–2005) Rocketdyne was an American rocket engine design and production company headquartered in Canoga Park, in the western San Fernando Valley of suburban Los Angeles, in southern California. Rocketdyne was founded as a division of North American Aviation in 1955 and was later part of Rockwell ...
On July 29, 1958, Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, establishing NASA. When it began operations on October 1, 1958, NASA absorbed the 46-year-old NACA intact; its 8,000 employees, an annual budget of US$100 million, three major research laboratories (Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, and ...