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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.
There is a separate list for all flights that occurred before 1951. ... 1977 in spaceflight; 1978 in spaceflight; 1979 in spaceflight; 1980-1989
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. ...
Space station: 8 August 1977: Successful Visited by three crews, one of which failed to dock 24 June 07:10 Soyuz-U Plesetsk Site 43/3 Kosmos 834 (Zenit-2M/Gektor 68) GRU Low Earth Reconnaissance: 6 July: Successful 26 June 03:00 Titan III(23)C Cape Canaveral SLC-40 DSP 6 (OPS 2112) USAF Geostationary Missile early warning: In orbit: Successful ...
Schematic of the Kosmos-954 on-board reactor. Kosmos 954 (Russian: Космос 954) was a reconnaissance satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1977. A malfunction prevented safe separation of its onboard nuclear reactor; when the satellite reentered the Earth's atmosphere the following year, it scattered radioactive debris over northern Canada, some of the debris landing in the Great ...
In the Pacific Time Zone (from December 1975 to March 1977), ABC's lineup had its game shows aired in the morning, while the 12 Noon to 3 PM block featured The Edge of Night, Ryan's Hope, All My Children, One Life to Live, and General Hospital in succession. After April 1977, ABC's Pacific Time Zone daytime schedule began matching that of its ...
The CBS game show Match Game is named the #1 rated game show on television for the fifth year in a row. March 4 Freddie Prinze makes his final appearance on the NBC sitcom Chico and the Man. Prinze had actually taped the episode in question a mere hours before he fatally shot himself on January 28, 1977. March 7
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 ...