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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 January 2025. Inhabited space station in low Earth orbit (1998–present) "ISS" redirects here. For other uses, see ISS (disambiguation). International Space Station (ISS) Oblique underside view in November 2021 International Space Station programme emblem with flags of the original signatory states ...
First mixed gender crew aboard space station, and first woman, Svetlana Savitskaya, on space station. USSR Salyut 7: 1982 First plants grown in space (Arabidopsis). USSR Salyut 7 [34] [35] 25 January 1983: First Infrared orbital observatory. USA (NASA) UK (SERC) Netherlands IRAS: 13 June 1983: First spacecraft beyond the orbit of Neptune.
A small number of pioneering or notable Earth-orbiting craft. ... First modular space station ... discovered water on the Moon [406] [407] ...
From 1958 until her retirement in 1986, Johnson worked as an aerospace technologist, moving during her career to the Spacecraft Controls Branch. She calculated the trajectory for the May 5, 1961, space flight of Alan Shepard, the first American in space. [1] She also calculated the launch window for his 1961 Mercury mission. [27]
Designators are assigned to objects by the United States Space Command along with satellite catalog numbers as they are discovered in space. [1] The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC), part of NASA, maintain two catalogs that provide additional information on the launchers and payloads associated with the designators.
In 1992, the first evidence of a planetary system other than our own was discovered, orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12. Three years later, 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet around a Sunlike star, was discovered. NASA announced in March 2022 that the number of discovered exoplanets reached 5,000, of several types and sizes. [45]
Giant Freakin Robot reports that NASA discovered 13 strains of a superbug, a multidrug-resistant bacterium, aboard the International Space Station.
The highest number of people at the same time on one space station has been 13, first achieved with the eleven day docking to the ISS of the 127th Space Shuttle mission in 2009. The record for most people on all space stations at the same time has been 17, first on May 30, 2023, with 11 people on the ISS and 6 on the TSS.