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Later Soyuz flights to the Salyut space stations and Mir had less noteworthy call signs: Foton, meaning "photon", etc. In contrast to the naming conventions applied by the Soviet Union and now Russia, most American space flights, with the exception of those of Project Gemini and early Apollo flights, have had their spacecraft officially named.
First docking in space in history with Agena Target Vehicle Planned EVA canceled due to early re-entry necessitated by stuck thruster. 23 Thomas P. Stafford (2) Eugene Cernan (1) 3 June 1966 Gemini 9A: 6 June 1966 Gemini 9A: First backup crew to fly space mission. 24 John Young (2) Michael Collins (1) 18 July 1966 Gemini 10: 21 July 1966 Gemini 10
Collected soil samples near Mars' north pole to elucidate the history of water on Mars. Mission concluded 10 November 2008. [68] Dawn: Asteroid 4 Vesta: 27 September 2007 16 July 2011 entered orbit: 1388 days (3 years, 9 months, 19 days) Departed Vesta for 1 Ceres 5 September 2012. [69] 1 Ceres: 6 March 2015 entered orbit: 2718 days (7 years, 5 ...
After nine missions in 1985, the most in any calendar year, policies called for increasing to as many as 24 flights annually. The Challenger lifts off Jan. 28, 1986, at Kennedy Space Center in ...
Apollo 10 (May 18–26, 1969) was the fourth human spaceflight in the United States' Apollo program and the second to orbit the Moon. NASA, the mission's operator, described it as a "dress rehearsal" for the first Moon landing (Apollo 11, two months later [4]).
Two aborted missions did cross either the Kármán line or the U.S. definition of space. These were the non-fatal aborted Soyuz mission MS-10 which did not reach the Kármán line but did pass the 80 km (50 mi) line. The other was the non-fatal Soyuz mission, 18a which crossed the Kármán line. Four missions successfully achieved human ...
The Space Shuttle flight controllers generally had limited capability to send commands to the shuttle for system reconfigurations. In contrast, the ISS flight controllers work 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This allows the ISS flight controllers time to discuss off-nominal telemetry. The ISS flight controllers have the opportunity to ...
Apollo 13 (April 11–17, 1970) was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and would have been the third Moon landing.The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module (SM) exploded two days into the mission, disabling its electrical and life-support system.