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USA (NASA) Pioneer 5: 19 August 1960: First plants and animals to return alive from Earth orbit. USSR Sputnik 5: 25 September 1960 First rocket engine fired in space. USA (NASA) Pioneer P-30 [13] 31 January 1961: First hominidae in space (chimpanzee Ham). First tasks performed in space. USA (NASA) M-R 2: 12 February 1961
A wide field view of outer space as seen from Earth's surface at night. The interplanetary dust cloud is visible as the horizontal band of zodiacal light, including the false dawn [29] (edges) and gegenschein (center), which is visually crossed by the Milky Way. Outer space is the closest known approximation to a perfect vacuum.
‘Amazing’ view of a total solar eclipse from outer space. Virts began his career with NASA in 2000 and retired in 2016, with two spaceflight missions under his belt.
The James Webb Space Telescope is a space telescope operated by NASA and designed primarily to conduct infrared astronomy.Launched in December 2021, the spacecraft has been in a halo orbit around the second Sun–Earth Lagrange point (L 2), about 1.5 million kilometers (900,000 mi) from Earth, since January 2022.
Lists of space scientists; Lists of spacecraft This page was last edited on 23 January 2025, at 16:29 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
James Webb Space Telescope: 25 December 2021 Infrared space telescope at Sun–Earth L 2 [487] [488] CAPSTONE: 28 June 2022 Lunar orbiter [489] Danuri 5 August 2022 Lunar orbiter [490] Artemis 1 and 10 cubesats 16 November 2022 Uncrewed lunar orbital test of Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System. The cubesats are launched as rideshares and ...
Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System and the interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere. It was launched 16 days after its twin, Voyager 2. It communicates through the NASA Deep Space Network (DSN
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