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The year 2011 saw a number of significant events in spaceflight, including the retirement of NASA's Space Shuttle after its final flight in July 2011, and the launch of China's first space station module, Tiangong-1, in September. A total of 84 orbital launches were conducted over the course of the year, of which 78 were successful.
Final flight of Endeavour. 288 Sergey Volkov (2) Satoshi Furukawa Michael E. Fossum (3) 7 June 2011 Soyuz TMA-02M: ISS (crew 28/29) 22 November 2011 Soyuz TMA-02M: ISS crew rotation. 289 Christopher Ferguson (3) Douglas G. Hurley (2) Sandra Magnus (3) Rex J. Walheim (3) 8 July 2011 STS-135, Atlantis: ISS: 21 July 2011 STS-135, Atlantis: ISS ...
Expedition 29 was the 29th long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). The expedition formally began on 16 September 2011, with the departure from the ISS of the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft. [1]
Notable test flights of spaceflight systems may be listed even if they were not planned to reach space. Some lists are further divided into orbital launches (sending a payload into orbit, whether successful or not) and suborbital flights (e.g. ballistic missiles, sounding rockets, experimental spacecraft).
Expedition 27 was the 27th long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), starting on 16 March 2011. Expedition 27 saw numerous notable events, including the undocking of the Progress M-09M and Kounotori 2 spacecraft, the arrival of the Soyuz TMA-21 and Progress M-10M spacecraft, and the final rendezvous with the ISS of NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour, on its last mission ...
According to History.com, on this day in 2011, NASA's space shuttle program completed its final, and 135th, mission, when the shuttle Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. During the ...
Flight day 13 was the final full day in space for the STS-135 crew. They spent the day checking out Atlantis′s flight control surfaces and hot-firing its reaction control system (RCS) jets, making sure everything was ready for deorbit. [127]
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