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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.
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 ]
This is a list of crewed and uncrewed flights of Soyuz series spacecraft. The Soyuz programme is an ongoing human spaceflight programme which was initiated by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, originally part of a Moon landing project intended to put a Soviet cosmonaut on the Moon.
1951. Cost of a movie ticket: $0.43* Cost adjusted for inflation: $5.22 Highest-grossing film: "Quo Vadis" Winner of 'Best Picture': "An American In Paris" Follow us on MSN for more of the content ...
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. ...
Soyuz 25 was launched on 9 October 1977 with a crew of two cosmonauts to dock with the orbiting Salyut 6 space station, which had been launched 10 days earlier, on 29 September. [4] The crew were to stay on board for about 90 days, which would break the Soviet space endurance record, and possibly the all-time record of 84 days held by the crew ...
Free flight #3: September 23, 1977 290 mph (467 km/h) 24,700 ft 7,529 m Haise, Fullerton 51 min 12 s 5 min 34 s ALT-15: Free flight #4: October 12, 1977 278 mph (447 km/h) 22,400 ft 6,828 m Engle, Truly 67 min 48 s 2 min 34 s Tailcone off, lakebed landing ALT-16: Free flight #5: October 26, 1977 283 mph (455 km/h) 19,000 ft 5,791 m Haise, Fullerton
Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System and the interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere. It was launched 16 days after its twin, Voyager 2. It communicates through the NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) to receive routine commands and to transmit data to ...