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Venera 1: 6 August 1961: First crewed space flight lasting over twenty four hours by Gherman Titov, who is also the first to suffer from space sickness. USSR Vostok 2: 7 March 1962: First orbital solar observatory. USA (NASA) OSO-1: 26 April 1962: First spacecraft to impact the far side of the Moon. USA (NASA) Ranger 4 [16] 11 August 1962
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]
In 1929, the Slovene officer Hermann Noordung was the first to imagine a complete space station in his book The Problem of Space Travel. [7] [8] The first rocket to reach space was a German V-2 rocket, on a vertical test flight in June 1944. [9]
After the first 20 years of exploration, focus shifted from one-off flights to renewable hardware, such as the Space Shuttle program, and from competition to cooperation as with the International Space Station (ISS). With the substantial completion of the ISS [4] following STS-133 in March 2011, plans for space exploration by the U.S. remained ...
[5]: 275–6 One of them was the R-5 missile, able to carry the same payload as the R-1 and R-2 but over a distance of 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) [5]: 242 (the other being the R-11, a tactical missile half the size of the R-1 but with the same payload). [16] The R-5's conceptual design was completed by 30 October 1951. [17]: 97
Space for Women: A History of Women With the Right Stuff. Santa Ana, California: Seven Locks Press. ISBN 978-1-931643-12-2. Gainor, Chris (2001). Arrows to the Moon: Avro's Engineers and the Space Race. Burlington, Ontario: Apogee Books. ISBN 978-1-896522-83-8. Gatland, Kenneth (1976). Manned Spacecraft, Second Revision.
Project Hermes launch: 8.1 kilometres (5.0 mi), rocket exploded at 50 seconds, but experiment still considered successful. [14] [17]: 460–462 27 October 13:30 Aerobee XASR-SC-2 SC 13 White Sands LC-35 US Army USASC / University of Michigan Suborbital Aeronomy: 27 October: Successful Apogee: 80.1 kilometres (49.8 mi) [17]: 212–213 1 November
The Space Age is a period encompassing the activities related to the space race, space exploration, space technology, and the cultural developments influenced by these events, beginning with the launch of Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, [1] and continuing to the present.