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Comparison of NASA Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle spacecraft with their launch vehicles. This is a list of NASA missions, both crewed and robotic, since the establishment of NASA in 1957. There are over 80 currently active science missions. [1]
Since the Wilson memorandum covered only weapons, not space vehicles, the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) saw this as a way to continue the development of their own large-rocket projects. In April 1957, von Braun directed Heinz-Hermann Koelle, chief of the Future Projects design branch, to study dedicated launch vehicle designs that could ...
Most consecutive launch successes of a single type of rocket: 365. USA 14 January 2017 – 8 July 2024 Earth: Falcon 9: Most consecutive landing successes of a single type of rocket stage: 267. USA 4 March 2021 – 20 August 2024 Earth: Falcon 9 Most vertical landings of a single orbital rocket stage: 24. USA 3 June 2021 – 4 December 2024 Earth
The Vanguard rocket [1] was intended to be the first launch vehicle the United States would use to place a satellite into orbit. Instead, the Sputnik crisis caused by the surprise launch of Sputnik 1 led the U.S., after the failure of Vanguard TV-3, to quickly orbit the Explorer 1 satellite using a Juno I rocket, making Vanguard 1 the second successful U.S. orbital launch.
Mission name Ref(s). March 1960: First solar probe. USA (NASA) Pioneer 5: 19 August 1960: First plants and animals to return alive from Earth orbit. USSR Sputnik 5: 25 September 1960 First rocket engine fired in space. USA (NASA) Pioneer P-30 [10] 31 January 1961: First hominidae in space (chimpanzee Ham). First tasks performed in space. USA ...
Engine fire in Block D booster rocket at liftoff, followed by premature separation 98 seconds after launch. [1] 16 May 02:14 R-2A: Kapustin Yar: OKB-1: OKB-1 / RAS: Suborbital Test flight: 16 May: Successful [13] 16 May 03:18 R-2A Kapustin Yar OKB-1 RAS Suborbital Biological: 16 May: Successful Apogee: 212 kilometres (132 mi), carried dogs [13 ...
The U.S. Air Force also participated in the program, but different requirements led to some divergence in the development of NASA and USAF Scouts. The basic NASA Scout configuration, from which all variants were derived, was known as Scout-X1. It was a four-stage rocket, which used the following motors: 1st stage: Aerojet General Algol