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First flight of Falcon 9 "block 4" upgrade. [76] Last flight of a newly-built Dragon capsule; further missions will use refurbished spacecraft. [77] Carried cosmic-ray detector ISS-CREAM to be installed on the station, and several cubesats to be later deployed from the ISS. Kestrel Eye was deployed into orbit from ISS on 24 October 2017. [78]
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).
The A340 flight demonstrator. The demonstrator took off on 26 September, 2017. [2]In April 2018, after 66 flight hours, drag reduction is better than expected at 10% and laminar flow is more stable than anticipated, including when the wing twists and flexes.
From the solar eclipse that captivated millions in the U.S. to the end of the 20-year Cassini mission, 2017 was an astounding year for space discoveries. 6 of the most remarkable space moments of 2017
First test passenger flight for Virgin Galactic commercial fleet, in preparation for later space tourism operations. The passenger, Beth Moses, is Virgin Galactic's Chief Astronaut Instructor and the first woman to fly aboard a commercial spaceship. Apogee of 89.9 km did not pass the Kármán line but passed the US definition of space. 322
First crewed flight End date No. of crewed missions launched Notes Mercury program: 1958 1961: 1963: 6: First U.S. crewed program Gemini program: 1961 1965: 1966: 10: Program used to practice space rendezvous and EVAs: Apollo program: 1960 1968: 1972: 11: Landed first humans on the Moon Skylab: 1964 1973: 1974: 3: First American space station ...
Sam Chui, an aviation enthusiast and blogger who has flown on the A340 over 50 times, remembers being on board the Newark to Singapore flight when it was the longest in the world.
[13] [14] [15] On June 14, 1949, the US launched the first mammal into space, a rhesus macaque monkey named Albert II, on a sub-orbital flight, though Albert II died when the parachute failed. [16] On July 22, 1951, the Soviets launched the Soviet space dogs, Dezik and Tsygan, who were the first dogs in space and the first to safely return. [17]