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Crewed flight with two cosmonauts, first Hungarian in space 28 May 12:00 Soyuz-U Plesetsk Site 41/1 Kosmos 1183 (Zenit-6) Low Earth Optical imaging: 11 June: Successful 29 May 10:53 Atlas E/F-Star-37S-ISS: Vandenberg SLC-3W NOAA-B: NOAA: Low Earth Weather: 3 May 1981: Launch failure First stage underperformed due to an engine leaking fuel and ...
Space Shuttle Discovery as it approaches the International Space Station during STS-114 on July 28, 2005. This was the Shuttle's "return to flight" mission after the Columbia disaster The Shuttle program operated accident-free for seventeen years and 88 missions after the Challenger disaster, until Columbia broke up on reentry , killing all ...
The Space Shuttle external tank (ET) carried the propellant for the Space Shuttle Main Engines, and connected the orbiter vehicle with the solid rocket boosters. The ET was 47 m (153.8 ft) tall and 8.4 m (27.6 ft) in diameter, and contained separate tanks for liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen.
Originally launched as Westar 6 by Space Shuttle Challenger in February 1984 on mission STS-41-B. Was stranded in an incorrect orbit and was recovered in November 1984 by Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-51-A. Westar 6 was refurbished and sold to AsiaSat who renamed it AsiaSat 1. 11 April 15:00 Atlas-E/Altair-3A: Vandenberg SLC-3W: Lockheed
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Leaf Space Primo Light rocket 2 LEO Proposed Unknown [79] [80] Lin Industrial Taymyr Light rocket 3 LEO Development Unknown [81] [82] Lockheed Martin: VentureStar: Reusable spaceplane: 1 LEO Cancelled — [83] Athena: Medium rocket 2 or 3 TLI: Retired (5/7) 1995 Mishaal Aerospace M-SV Sounding rocket 1 Suborbital Development Unknown [84] [85 ...
First space walk/extra-vehicular activity (Alexei Leonov). USSR Voskhod 2: March 1965: First crewed spacecraft to change orbit. USA (NASA) Gemini 3: 14 July 1965: First flyby of Mars (returned pictures). USA (NASA) Mariner 4 [18] 14 July 1965: First photographs of another planet from deep space . USA (NASA) Mariner 4 [18] 26 November 1965
The best alien movies out there include several entries in the 'Alien' series, to'Super 8,' 'Cloverfield,' and 'Nope,' among countless others.