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Russian lunar lander Luna 25 was launched on 10 August 2023, 23:10 UTC, atop a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome. [9] It is the first Russian attempt to land a spacecraft on the Moon since the Soviet lander Luna 24 in 1974. It crashed on the Moon on 19 August after technical glitches.
10 January 23:27:30 [32] RS1: DEMO-1 Kodiak LP-3C ABL ⚀ VariSat-1A, 1B [33] VariSat Low Earth: Technology demonstration: 10 January: Launch failure First flight of RS1, designated DEMO-1. Launch failed a little over 10 seconds after liftoff due to a loss of power that shut down the first stage engines. [31] 12 January 18:10 [34] Long March 2C ...
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).
Virgin Galactic Unity 25 was a sub-orbital spaceflight by Virgin Galactic that took place on 25 May 2023. The flight used their SpaceShipTwo spaceplane VSS Unity. The crew consisted of six Virgin Galactic employees. Unity 25 was the first spaceflight for the company since Unity 22 in 2021, when founder Richard Branson flew to space. [1]
This article lists orbital and suborbital launches planned for the second half of the year 2023, including launches planned for 2023 without a specific launch date. For all other spaceflight activities, see 2023 in spaceflight. For launches in the first half of 2023, see List of spaceflight launches in January–June 2023.
Civilian to use a commercial space flight, and journalist to report on space from outer space: Toyohiro Akiyama – Japan: Soyuz TM-10, Soyuz TM-11: Japan 2 December 1990 – 10 December 1990 Three women in space at the same time Millie Hughes-Fulford, Tamara E. Jernigan, M. Rhea Seddon: STS-40: USA 5 June 1991 – 14 June 1991 Three-person ...
The Apollo program was the third human spaceflight program carried out by NASA. The program's goal was to orbit and land crewed vehicles on the Moon. [62] The program ran from 1969 to 1972. Apollo 8 was the first human spaceflight to leave Earth orbit and orbit the Moon on December 21, 1968. [63]
10 July 1962 – Telstar 1, the first satellite to be used commercially, is launched on the first commercially sponsored space launch, aboard a Thor-Delta rocket. [ 2 ] 31 August 1962 – President John F. Kennedy signs the Communications Satellite Act of 1962 providing the regulatory framework for private companies in the United States to own ...