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The year 2023 saw rapid growth and significant technical achievements in spaceflight. For the third year in a row, new world records were set for both orbital launch attempts (223) and successful orbital launches (211). The growth in orbital launch cadence can in large part be attributed to SpaceX, as they increased their number of launches ...
Countries (and successor states) whose citizens have flown in space as of January 2024. The criteria for determining who has achieved human spaceflight vary. The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) defines spaceflight as any flight over 100 kilometres (62 mi), while in the United States, professional, military and commercial astronauts who travel above an altitude of 50 miles (80 ...
2 March 2023 SpaceX Crew-6, Endeavour: ISS (crew 68/69) 4 September 2023 SpaceX Crew-6, Endeavour: ISS crew rotation. 351 Peggy Whitson (4) John Shoffner Ali AlQarni Rayyanah Barnawi: 21 May 2023 Axiom Mission 2, Freedom: ISS: 31 May 2023 Axiom Mission 2, Freedom — Michael Masucci Frederick W. Sturckow Beth Moses Luke Mays Jamila Gilbert ...
The record for most time in space is held by Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, who has spent 1108.812 days in space over five missions and is currently in space onboard Soyuz MS-24/25's one year long-duration mission on ISS. As this mission lasts 374 days, Kononenko will have spent a total of 1,111 days in space.
As of 30 May 2023, 269 people from 21 countries had visited the space station, many of them multiple times. The United States sent 163 people, Russia sent 57, 11 were Japanese, nine were Canadian, five were Italian, four were French, four were German, two from the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia and one each from Belgium, Brazil, Denmark ...
In October 2003, Yang Liwei became the first man to be sent into space by the space program of China, and his mission, Shenzhou 5, made the PRC the third country to independently send people into space. February 24 – RKKE-14 Cosmonaut Group (Russia) Mikhail Korniyenko. March 2 – OS "Mir" Stefanik Group (Slovakia) Ivan Bella, Michal Fulier
This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. For a list of everyone who has flown in space, see List of space travelers by name. More than 600 people have been trained as astronauts.
July. Launch vehicle changed from Soyuz ST-B due to the indefinite suspension of Soyuz launches from Kourou in February 2022. [ 1 ] Final Ariane 5 launch. Last launch of Starlink v1.5 satellites from Vandenberg. Last launch of Starlink Group 5 Satellites from Vandenberg. Second orbital flight attempt for Zhuque-2.