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NASA received the Space Shuttle orbiter later named Enterprise, on 14 January. This unpowered sub-orbital space plane was launched off the top of a modified 747 and was flown uncrewed until 13 August until a human crew landed the Enterprise for the first time. In August and September, the two Voyager spacecraft to the outer planets were launched.
December 9, 1977 Enterprise, approach and landing flight tests Armstrong Flight Research Center, lasted 3 hours, 37 minutes; March 10–13, 1978 Enterprise, ferry flight from Armstrong Flight Research Center to Marshall Space Flight Center (via Ellington Air Force Base) for vertical ground vibration tests at MSFC.
Pages in category "1977 in spaceflight" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
These navboxes include both successful and failed launches as well as separate orbital payloads and are located at the bottom of orbital spacecraft articles (such as Landsat 8) or articles of the series (such as 2001 in spaceflight). Orbital launch by year templates span from 1957 with the launch of the Soviet Sputnik 1 to the present year.
For the purpose of these lists, a spaceflight is defined as any flight that crosses the Kármán line, ... 1975 in spaceflight; 1976 in spaceflight; 1977 in spaceflight;
A Blue Origin New Shepard rocket lifts off from the company's launch site in West Texas on March 31, 2022. The mission carried five paying passengers and Gary Lai, New Shepard's chief architect ...
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011.
Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, as a part of the Voyager program. It was launched on a trajectory towards the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and enabled further encounters with the ice giants Uranus and Neptune .