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The list for the year 2025 and for its subsequent years may contain planned launches, but the statistics will 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 (62 miles) above mean sea level (AMSL) . [ 1 ]
Space Launch System (2022–present) RS1 (2023–present) Terran 1 (2023) SpaceX Starship (2023–present) ... List of rockets of the United States.
Launch site to be used for suborbital and polar low-Earth orbital launch on the east coast by companies BluShift Aerospace and VALT Enterprises [73] [74] and funded by Maine Space Grant Consortium. Additional rocket launch sites in North America
The last orbital launch from San Marco was on 25 March 1988 by US Scout G-1 and there are no further launches scheduled. Australia with the first successful launch from Woomera Test Range of its first satellite WRESAT on 29 November 1967 by US Sparta . [ 10 ]
1962 - The US launches Mercury MA-6 (Friendship 7) on an Atlas D booster, John Glenn puts America in orbit. 1962 - Pakistan launched Rehbar-I and was the first country in Islamic world to successfully launch a vessel in outer space. 1963 - The USSR launches Vostok 6, Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman (and first civilian) in space and to ...
The United States has developed many space programs since the beginning of the spaceflight era in the mid-20th century. The government runs space programs by three primary agencies: NASA for civil space; the United States Space Force for military space; and the National Reconnaissance Office for intelligence space. These entities have invested ...
Timeline of spaceflight ... United States: Orbital launch attempts by country in 1962: Country ... Orbital regime Launches Successes Failures
United States V-2 [4] [5] 20 February 1947 First animals in space (fruit flies). United States V-2 [4] [6] 24 February 1949: First two-stage liquid-fueled rocket, that sets a record altitude of 244 miles (393 km) (WAC Corporal missile mounted onto a V-2 rocket). United States Bumper-5: 14 June 1949: First mammal in space (Albert II, a rhesus ...