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The mission touched down safely, and the crew was reflown with the same mission plan on STS-94. Collision in space 25 June 1997: Mir: At Mir, during a re-docking test with the Progress M-34 cargo freighter, the Progress freighter collided with the Spektr module and solar arrays of the Mir space station. This damaged the solar arrays and the ...
The Kennedy Space Center served as the landing site for 78 missions, while 54 missions landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California and one mission landed at White Sands, New Mexico. [5] The first orbiter built, Enterprise, was used for atmospheric flight tests (ALT) but future plans to upgrade it to orbital capability were ultimately canceled.
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster (1 C, 13 P) Pages in category "Space missions that ended in failure" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
At present, safety standards for private space missions aren't regulated by U.S. law and private operators aren't required to disclose mishaps in orbit because of a moratorium approved by Congress ...
Rockets from the Falcon 9 family have a success rate of 99.33% and have been launched 448 times over 15 years, resulting in 445 full successes, two in-flight failures (SpaceX CRS-7 and Starlink Group 9–3), one pre-flight failure (AMOS-6 while being prepared for an on-pad static fire test), and one partial failure (SpaceX CRS-1, which delivered its cargo to the International Space Station ...
Apollo 13 stands as one of NASA's most monumental and near-fatal space missions decades after the event. Launched in 1970, what was meant to be the third moon landing became a desperate fight for ...
Gravity and Extreme Magnetism - 2012; International X-ray Observatory - 2011; Terrestrial Planet Finder - 2011; Laser Interferometer Space Antenna - 2011; Space Interferometry Mission - 2010
The problem was traced to a failed ... Musk said this was because the recently passed California AB1955 bill "and the many ... houses SpaceX's office space, mission ...