langs: 12 апреля [ru] / april 12 [en] / 12. april [de] / 12 avril [fr] / 12 aprile [it] / 12 de abril [es]
days: april 9 / april 10 / april 11 / april 12 / april 13 / april 14 / april 15
#1 Viktor Afanasyev (cosmonaut)
Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasyev ( Russian : Виктор Михайлович Афанасьев ; born 31 December 1948) is a colonel in the Russian Air Force and a test cosmonaut of the Yu. A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center . He was born 31 December 1948, in Bryansk , Russian SFSR , and is married to Yelena Ya. Afanasyev
Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu ( Romanian pronunciation: [duˈmitru doˈrin pruˈnarju] ( listen ) ; born 27 September 1952) is a Romanian cosmonaut . He flew in space aboard Soyuz 40 spacecraft and Salyut 6 space laboratory. He teamed with the Soviet cosmonaut Leonid Popov . The backup crew was made of Roma
Helen Patricia Sharman, CMG , OBE , HonFRSC (born 30 May 1963) is a British chemist and cosmonaut who became the first British person, first Western European woman and first privately funded woman in space, as well as the first woman to visit the Mir space station, in May 1991. British cosmonaut and
Ronald Ellwin Evans Jr. (November 10, 1933 – April 7, 1990) was an American electrical engineer , aeronautical engineer , officer and aviator in the United States Navy , and NASA astronaut . As Command Module Pilot on Apollo 17 he was one of the 24 astronauts to have flown to the Moon, and one of
#5 Alan Shepard
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut , naval aviator , test pilot , and businessman. In 1961, he became the second person and the first American to travel into space, and in 1971, he walked on the Moon . American astronaut (1923–1998), first Ameri
#6 Pyotr Klimuk
Pyotr Ilyich Klimuk ( Belarusian : Пётр Ільіч Кліму́к ; Russian : Пётр Ильич Климу́к ; born 10 July 1942) is a former Soviet cosmonaut and the first Belarusian to perform space travel. Klimuk made three flights into space . Soviet cosmonaut Pyotr Ilyich Klimuk Born ( 1942-07-10 ) 10 July 1942 (age
John Watts Young (September 24, 1930 – January 5, 2018) was an American astronaut , naval officer and aviator , test pilot , and aeronautical engineer . He became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972. He is the only astronaut to fly on four different c
Thomas Arthur Reiter (born 23 May 1958 in Frankfurt , West Germany ) is a retired European astronaut and is a Brigadier General [1] in the German Air Force currently working as ESA Interagency Coordinator and Advisor to the Director General at the European Space Agency (ESA). He was one of the top 2
#9 Igor Volk
Igor Petrovich Volk ( Russian : Игорь Петрович Волк , Ukrainian : Ігор Петрович Волк ; 12 April 1937 – 3 January 2017) was a Soviet test pilot and cosmonaut in the Buran programme . This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in Russian . (January 2019) Click [
#10 Jake Garn
Edwin Jacob "Jake" Garn (born October 12, 1932) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party who served as a United States senator representing Utah from 1974 to 1993. Garn became the first sitting member of Congress to fly in space when he flew aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery as
#11 Gherman Titov
Gherman Stepanovich Titov ( Russian : Герман Степанович Титов ; 11 September 1935 – 20 September 2000) was a Soviet cosmonaut who, on 6 August 1961, [1] became the second human to orbit the Earth, aboard Vostok 2 , preceded by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1 . He was the fourth person in space, counting su
#12 Daniel M. Tani
Daniel M. Tani (born February 1, 1961) is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut . He was born in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania , but considers Lombard, Illinois , to be his hometown. [1] American engineer and NASA astronaut Daniel M. Tani Tani in 2001 Born ( 1961-02-01 ) February 1, 1961 (age
Captain Donald Edward Williams (February 13, 1942 – February 23, 2016) was an American naval officer and aviator , test pilot , mechanical engineer and NASA astronaut . He logged a total of 287 hours and 35 minutes in space . For other people named Donald Williams, see Donald Williams (disambiguatio
Vladimir Vasiliyevich Kovalyonok ( Belarusian : Уладзі́мір Васі́льевіч Кавалёнак ; Russian : Влади́мир Васи́льевич Ковалёнок ; born 3 March 1942 in Beloye , Minsk Oblast , Belorussian SSR ) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut . Soviet cosmonaut This biography of a living person needs additional citations
#15 Claudie Haigneré
Claudie (André-Deshays) Haigneré (born 13 May 1957) is a French doctor, politician and former astronaut with the Centre National d'Études Spatiales (1985–1999) and the European Space Agency (1999–2002). [1] French astronaut, politician and doctor Claudie Haigneré Born ( 1957-05-13 ) 13 May 1957 (age
#16 Karol J. Bobko
Karol Joseph "Bo" Bobko (born December 23, 1937), ( Col , USAF , Ret.), is an American aerospace engineer , retired U.S. Air Force officer , test pilot , and a former USAF and NASA astronaut . Bobko was the first graduate of the US Air Force Academy to travel in space. [1] Karol J. Bobko Bobko in Se
Thomas Patten Stafford (born September 17, 1930) is an American former Air Force officer , test pilot , and NASA astronaut , and one of 24 people who flew to the Moon . He also served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1969 to 1971. United States astronaut (born 1930) Thomas P. Stafford Stafford
Aleksandr Stepanovich Viktorenko ( Russian : Александр Степанович Викторенко ; born 29 March 1947) is a Soviet/Russian cosmonaut. Soviet cosmonaut This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification . ( November 2014 ) Aleksandr Stepanovich Viktorenko Born ( 1947-03-29 ) Ma
Aleksei Stanislavovich Yeliseyev ( Russian : Алексей Станиславович Елисеев ; born 13 July 1934) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew on three missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 5 , Soyuz 8 , and Soyuz 10 . He made the world's eighth spacewalk during Soyuz 5 in 1969. Soviet
Hazza Al Mansouri [1] [2] ( Arabic : هَزَّاع ٱلْمَنْصُوْرِي , romanized : Hazzāʿ Al-Manṣūrī , surname also spelled "Al Mansoori", full name Hazzaa Ali Abdan Khalfan Al Mansoori ( هَزَّاع عَلِي عَبْدان خَلْفَان ٱلْمَنْصُوْرِي ) is an Emirati astronaut and the first person from the United Arab Emira
#1 Columbia Memorial Space Center
The Columbia Memorial Space Center (CMSC) is a science museum owned and operated by the City of Downey, California . Located on 12400 Columbia Way in Downey, it is open to the general public as hands-on space museum and activity center in the Los Angeles area . [2] Science Museum in Downey, Californ
The John F. Kennedy Space Center ( KSC , originally known as the NASA Launch Operations Center ), located on Merritt Island , Florida , is one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 's (NASA) ten field centers . Since December 1968, KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of human sp
#3 Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is the visitor center at NASA 's Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida . It features exhibits and displays, historic spacecraft and memorabilia, shows, two IMAX theaters, and a range of bus tours of the spaceport. The "Space Shuttle Atlantis " exhib
Korabl-Sputnik 5 [2] ( Russian : Корабль-Спутник 5 meaning Ship-Satellite 5 ) or Vostok-3KA No.2 , also known as Sputnik 10 in the West, [3] was a Soviet spacecraft which was launched in 1961, as part of the Vostok programme . It was the last test flight of the Vostok spacecraft design prior the fir
#2 Ionospheric Connection Explorer
Ionospheric Connection Explorer ( ICON ) [6] is a satellite designed to investigate changes in the ionosphere of Earth , the dynamic region high in our atmosphere where terrestrial weather from below meets space weather from above. ICON studies the interaction between Earth's weather systems and spa
#3 STS-59
STS-59 was a Space Shuttle program mission that took place in 1994. The launch was chronicled by the 1994 Discovery Channel special about the Space Shuttle program . 1994 American crewed spaceflight to conduct Earth observations STS-59 Space Shuttle Endeavour in orbit with SIR-C in its payload bay N
#4 SpaceX CRS-8
SpaceX CRS-8 , also known as SpX-8 , [5] was a Commercial Resupply Service mission to the International Space Station (ISS) which was launched on April 8, 2016, at 20:43 UTC. It was the 23rd flight of a Falcon 9 rocket, the tenth flight of a Dragon cargo spacecraft and the eighth operational missi
The Viking program consisted of a pair of identical American space probes , Viking 1 and Viking 2 , which landed on Mars in 1976. [1] Each spacecraft was composed of two main parts: an orbiter designed to photograph the surface of Mars from orbit , and a lander designed to study the planet from the
#6 GOES 7
GOES-7 , known as GOES-H before becoming operational, is an American satellite . It was originally built as a weather satellite , and formed part of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system. Originally built as a ground spare ,
#7 Soyuz 33
Soyuz 33 ( Russian : Союз 33 , Union 33 ) was an April, 1979, Soviet crewed space flight to the Salyut 6 space station . [1] It was the ninth mission to the orbiting facility, but an engine failure forced the mission to be aborted, and the crew had to return to Earth before docking with the station.
#8 Viking 2
The Viking 2 mission was part of the American Viking program to Mars , and consisted of an orbiter and a lander essentially identical to that of the Viking 1 mission. [1] Viking 2 was operational on Mars for 1281 sols ( 1316 days ; 3 years, 221 days ). The Viking 2 lander operated on the surface
#9 Kosmos 28
Kosmos 28 ( Russian : Космос 28 meaning Cosmos 28 ) or Zenit-2 No.16 was a Soviet , a first generation, low resolution, optical film-return reconnaissance satellite which was launched in 1964. A Zenit-2 spacecraft, Kosmos 28 was the sixteenth of eighty-one such satellites to be launched [3] [4] and
Simulation-to-Flight 1 ( STF-1 ) is a microsatellite built by the Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility (IV&V) in Fairmont, West Virginia with the collaboration of the West Virginia Space Grants Consortium and West Virginia University . Microsatellite This article contai
Ulysses ( / j uː ˈ l ɪ s iː z / yoo- LISS -eez , UK also / ˈ j uː l ɪ s iː z / YOO -liss-eez ) was a robotic space probe whose primary mission was to orbit the Sun and study it at all latitudes. It was launched in 1990 and made three "fast latitude scans" of the Sun in 1994/1995, 2000/2001, and 2007
#12 International Space Station
The International Space Station ( ISS ) is the largest modular space station currently in low Earth orbit . It is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe), and CSA (Canada). [7] [8] The own
#13 Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3
Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 ( Korean : 광명성 3호 ; Hanja : 光明星3號 ; lit. Bright Star-3 [2] or Lode Star-3 [3] ) was a North Korean Earth observation satellite which, according to the DPRK , was for weather forecast purposes, and whose launch was widely portrayed in the West to be a veiled ballistic missile t
#14 Apstar 6
Apstar 6 is a communications satellite built by Alcatel Space , a subsidiary of Alcatel , and was boosted into orbit on April 12, 2005, by Long March 3B launcher from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China. It provides APT Satellite , a satellite operator in the Asia Pacific region, with broadband
#15 JCSAT-5A
JCSAT-5A or N-STAR d , known as JCSAT-9 before launch, is a geostationary communications satellite operated by SKY Perfect JSAT Group (JSAT) which was designed and manufactured by Lockheed Martin on the A2100 platform. [1] [2] JCSAT-5A Names JCSAT-5A N-STAR d JCSAT-9 Mission type Communications Oper
#16 Envisat
Envisat (" Environmental Satellite ") is a large inactive Earth-observing satellite which is still in orbit and now considered space debris. Operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), it was the world's largest civilian Earth observation satellite. [2] ESA Earth observation satellite (2002–2012) E
#17 Kosmos 1172
Kosmos 1172 ( Russian : Космос 1172 meaning Cosmos 1172 ) was a Soviet US-K missile early warning satellite which was launched in 1980 as part of the Soviet military's Oko programme. The satellite was designed to identify missile launches using optical telescopes and infrared sensors . [2] Kosmos 11
#18 Mir
Mir ( Russian : Мир , IPA: [ˈmʲir] ; lit. ' peace ' or ' world ' ) was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, operated by the Soviet Union and later by Russia . Mir was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996. It had a greater
#19 Soyuz TMA-21
Soyuz TMA-21 ( "Gagarin" ) was a Soyuz flight to the International Space Station (ISS). It transported three members of the Expedition 27 crew to the ISS, and docked at the station on April 6, 2011. TMA-21 is the 109th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft, the first of which launched in 1967. The Soyuz rema
#20 Soyuz 18
Soyuz 18 ( Russian : Союз 18 , Union 18 ) was a 1975 Soviet crewed mission to Salyut 4 , the second and final crew to man the space station . Pyotr Klimuk and Vitaly Sevastyanov set a new Soviet space endurance record of 63 days and the mark for most people in space simultaneously (seven) was tied d