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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.
Replica of the Vostok space capsule, which carried the first human into orbit, at Technik Museum Speyer Mercury space capsule, which carried the first Americans into orbit, on display at the Astronaut Hall of Fame, Titusville, Florida North American X-15, hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft, which reached the edge of space Neil Armstrong, one of the first two people to land on the Moon and the ...
All 9 planets in the pre-IAU redefinition version of the Solar System: All United States spacecraft including New Horizons: With the New Horizons flyby of Pluto, the United States is the first nation to have its space probes explore all nine planets in the pre-2006 IAU redefinition version of the Solar System. USA 14 July 2015 Earth: Falcon 9
Pioneer 6 was the first satellite to orbit the Sun, launched on 16 December 1965. The other planets were first flown by in 1965 for Mars by Mariner 4, 1973 for Jupiter by Pioneer 10, 1974 for Mercury by Mariner 10, 1979 for Saturn by Pioneer 11, 1986 for Uranus by Voyager 2, 1989 for Neptune by Voyager 2.
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 ...
Aditya-L1 (Sanskrit: Āditya IPA: [aːd̪it̪jɐ] 'Sun', L1 'Lagrange Point 1') [a] is a coronagraphy spacecraft for studying the solar atmosphere, designed and developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and various other Indian Space Research Institutes. [1]
This is a list of crew to the International Space Station, in alphabetical order.Current ISS crew names are in bold.The suffix (twice, thrice, ...) refers to the individual's number of spaceflights to the ISS, not the total number of spaceflights.
Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) was the first crewed American orbital spaceflight, which took place on February 20, 1962. [4] Piloted by astronaut John Glenn and operated by NASA as part of Project Mercury, it was the fifth human spaceflight, preceded by Soviet orbital flights Vostok 1 and 2 and American sub-orbital flights Mercury-Redstone 3 and 4.