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The flags indicate the astronaut's primary citizenship during his or her time as an astronaut. The symbol identifies female astronauts. The symbol indicates astronauts who have left low Earth orbit. The symbol indicates astronauts who have walked on the Moon. The symbol † indicates astronauts who have died in incidents related to a space program.
[1] [2] [3] The three astronauts—Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders—were the first humans to see and photograph the far side of the Moon and an Earthrise. Apollo 8 launched on December 21, 1968, and was the second crewed spaceflight mission flown in the United States Apollo space program (the first, Apollo 7, stayed
Skylab 4 (also SL-4 and SLM-3 [2]) was the third crewed Skylab mission and placed the third and final crew aboard the first American space station.. The mission began on November 16, 1973, with the launch of Gerald P. Carr, Edward Gibson, and William R. Pogue in an Apollo command and service module on a Saturn IB rocket from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, [3] and lasted 84 days, one hour ...
Firefly Aerospace, the Texas-based company operating the spacecraft, shared the incredible video and imagery days after the lander entered lunar orbit on its 45-day expedition to the surface. The ...
Astronauts in lunar orbit observed it during the Apollo 15 and Apollo 17 missions. Lunar horizon glow as observed by Surveyor 7 mission. The thin lunar atmosphere is visible on the Moon's surface at sunrise and sunset with the lunar horizon glow [ 1 ] and lunar twilight rays, like Earth's crepuscular rays .
He is the first astronaut from Sicily Samantha Cristoforetti, 541st person in space, who has performed the longest single spaceflight by a woman, as of 2015 Andreas Mogensen, joint 544th person and the first Dane in space Aidyn Aimbetov, joint 544th person and the first solely Kazakh cosmonaut Hazza Al Mansouri, joint 564th person and the first ...
He had executed a burn of the CSM's main engine, the Service Propulsion System, to send Endeavour from the lower orbit in which the two craft separated, to an orbit of 65.2 nautical miles (120.8 km; 75.0 mi) by 54.8 nautical miles (101.5 km; 63.1 mi) in preparation for his scientific work.
She was the first person to make a TikTok video on board the International Space Station and some of her onboard videos has been viewed millions of times. [41] On 13 May 2022 she became the first astronaut to operate the rHEALTH ONE, space's most powerful biomedical analyzer to date. [42]