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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.
This is a detailed list of human spaceflights from 1971 to 1980, including the later Apollo Moon landings, the US Skylab missions, and the start of the Soviet Union's Salyut series of space stations. Red indicates fatalities. Green indicates suborbital flights (including flights that failed to attain intended orbit). Grey indicates flights to ...
There is a separate list for all flights that occurred before 1951. ... 1977 in spaceflight; 1978 in spaceflight; 1979 in spaceflight; 1980-1989
Soyuz 25 (Russian: Союз 25, Union 25) was an October 1977 Soviet crewed space flight, the first to the new Salyut 6 space station, which had been launched 10 days earlier. However, the mission was aborted when cosmonauts Vladimir Kovalyonok and Valery Ryumin failed to engage the docking latches of the station despite five attempts.
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. ...
1976 June 19 - Interkosmos 15. Testing of new systems and components of satellite under space flight conditions. 1977 March 29 - Investigation of the upper atmosphere and outer space. 1977 June 17 - Signe 3 - Twenty French specialists worked on the satellite. 1977 August 30 - Vertikal-5 Solar Ultraviolet/Solar X-ray mission.
Space station: 8 August 1977: Successful Visited by three crews, one of which failed to dock 24 June 07:10 Soyuz-U Plesetsk Site 43/3 Kosmos 834 (Zenit-2M/Gektor 68) GRU Low Earth Reconnaissance: 6 July: Successful 26 June 03:00 Titan III(23)C Cape Canaveral SLC-40 DSP 6 (OPS 2112) USAF Geostationary Missile early warning: In orbit: Successful ...
Schematic of the Kosmos-954 on-board reactor. Kosmos 954 (Russian: Космос 954) was a reconnaissance satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1977. A malfunction prevented safe separation of its onboard nuclear reactor; when the satellite reentered the Earth's atmosphere the following year, it scattered radioactive debris over northern Canada, some of the debris landing in the Great ...