langs: 13 апреля [ru] / april 13 [en] / 13. april [de] / 13 avril [fr] / 13 aprile [it] / 13 de abril [es]
days: april 10 / april 11 / april 12 / april 13 / april 14 / april 15 / april 16
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
#2 Jessica Meir
Jessica Ulrika Meir ( IPA : / m ɪər / ; meer ; born ( 1977-07-01 ) July 1, 1977 ) is an American-Swedish NASA astronaut, marine biologist, and physiologist. She was previously an assistant professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School , Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston , following postdoc
William Alison Anders (born October 17, 1933) is a retired United States Air Force (USAF) major general , former electrical engineer , nuclear engineer , NASA astronaut , and businessman. In December 1968, he was a member of the crew of Apollo 8 , the first three people to leave low Earth orbit and
#4 Terry Hart
Terry Jonathan "T.J." Hart (born October 27, 1946) is an American mechanical and electrical engineer , a retired United States Air Force lieutenant colonel and pilot , and former NASA astronaut . American astronaut For other people named Terry Hart, see Terry Hart (disambiguation) . This article has
Jean-Jacques Favier (Born April 13, 1949) is a French engineer and a former CNES astronaut who flew aboard the STS-78 NASA Space Shuttle mission. Favier was due to fly aboard the destroyed Columbia mission in 2003, but later signed out of the mission. Jean-Jacques Favier has been Deputy Director for
Robert Laurel Crippen (born September 11, 1937) is an American retired naval officer and aviator , test pilot , aerospace engineer , and retired astronaut . He traveled into space four times: as Pilot of STS-1 in April 1981, the first Space Shuttle mission; and as Commander of STS-7 in June 1983, ST
Major general Georgi Ivanov Kakalov ( Bulgarian : Георги Иванов Какалов ; born July 2, 1940) is a Bulgarian former military officer who was the first Bulgarian cosmonaut . He was a member of the National Assembly of Bulgaria in 1990. Bulgarian cosmonaut This biography of a living person needs additi
Charles Simonyi ( / s ɪ ˈ m oʊ n i / ; Hungarian : Simonyi Károly , pronounced [ˈʃimoɲi ˈkaːroj] ; born September 10, 1948) is a Hungarian-American software architect . He started and led Microsoft 's applications group, where he built the first versions of Microsoft Office . [1] Hungarian-America
#9 Gus Grissom
Virgil Ivan " Gus " Grissom (April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967) was an American engineer, pilot in the United States Air Force , and member of the Mercury Seven selected by National Aeronautics and Space Administration 's (NASA) as Project Mercury astronauts to be the first Americans in outer space .
#1 National Naval Aviation Museum
The National Naval Aviation Museum , formerly known as the National Museum of Naval Aviation and the Naval Aviation Museum , is a military and aerospace museum located at Naval Air Station Pensacola , Florida . Military and aerospace museum in Pensacola, FL, USA National Naval Aviation Museum F-14A
East Midlands Airport ( IATA : EMA , ICAO : EGNX ) is an international airport in the East Midlands of England , close to Castle Donington in northwestern Leicestershire , between Loughborough ( 10 miles (16 km) ), Derby ( 12.5 miles (20 km) ) and Nottingham ( 14 miles (23 km) ); Leicester is
#3 Norwegian Armed Forces Aircraft Collection
Norwegian Armed Forces Aircraft Collection ( Forsvarets flysamling Gardermoen ) is a military aviation museum located at Gardermoen , north of Oslo in Viken county , Norway . The founding of the Norwegian Aviation Historical Society in 1967, gave the first boost to the idea of preserving aircraft in
The Nour satellite (also spelled Noor, Persian: ماهواره نور, lit. 'Light') callsign "NOUR 02" or "NOOR 02", is an Iranian military satellite , which was launched to orbit on 8 March 2022. [1] The Nour 2 satellite was lifted into space by the three-stage launcher Qased, or "Messenger" . The satellite
#2 Kosmos 14
Kosmos 14 ( Russian : Космос 14 meaning Cosmos 14 ), also known as Omega No.1 , was a satellite which was launched by the Soviet Union in 1963. It was an Omega satellite, derived from the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik series. Kosmos 14 A model of the Kosmos 14 satellite. Mission type Technology (Weather) O
#3 SOLRAD 3
SOLRAD (SOLar RADiation) 3 was a solar X-ray satellite, the third in the SOLRAD program. Developed by the United States Navy 's Naval Research Laboratory (USNRL), it shared satellite space with and provided cover for the Navy's GRAB 2 (Galactic Radiation And Background), a secret electronic surveill
#4 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
#5 SOLRAD 2
SOLRAD (SOLar RADiation) 2 was the public designation for a combination surveillance and solar X-rays and ultraviolet scientific satellite, the second in the SOLRAD program developed by the United States Navy 's Naval Research Laboratory . The SOLRAD scientific package aboard the satellite provided
Mars Global Surveyor ( MGS ) was an American robotic space probe developed by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and launched November 1996. MGS was a global mapping mission that examined the entire planet, from the ionosphere down through the atmosphere to the surface. [2] As part of the larger Mars
#7 Kosmos 47
Kosmos 47 ( Russian : Космос 47 meaning Cosmos 47 ) is the designation of an uncrewed test flight of a prototype Soviet Voskhod spacecraft , the first multiple-occupant spacecraft. Launched on 6 October 1964, the successful flight paved the way for the first crewed mission, Voskhod 1 , which occurre
#8 GOES 8
GOES-8 , known as GOES-I before becoming operational, was an American weather satellite , which formed part of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system. It was launched in 1994, and operated until 2004 when it was retired and b
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
#10 Kosmos 638
Kosmos 638 ( Russian : Космос 638 ) was an uncrewed test of the 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project Soyuz. It carried an APAS-75 androgynous docking system . A crewed Soyuz 7K-TM as seen from Apollo module during the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project. This was followed by another uncrewed test of this spacecraft
#11 USA-96
USA-96 , also known as GPS IIA-14 , GPS II-23 and GPS SVN-34 , is an American navigation satellite which is part of the Global Positioning System . It was 14 of 19 Block IIA GPS satellites to be launched, and the last one to be retired. American navigation satellite USA-96 Names Navstar 2A-14 GPS II
#12 Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2
Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 ( Korean : 광명성 2호 , meaning Bright Star-2 [1] or Lode Star-2 [2] ) was a satellite launched by North Korea on April 5, 2009. North Korean satellite Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 Kwangmyongsong-2 as it would have looked in orbit in a 2009 computer graphic video Mission type Communication /Technol
#13 Westar 1
Westar 1 was America's first domestic and commercially launched geostationary communications satellite , launched by Western Union (WU) and NASA on April 13, 1974. It was built by Hughes for Western Union, using the HS-333 platform of spin-stabilized satellites. Westar 1 was the first of five Westar
#14 STS-132
STS-132 ( ISS assembly flight ULF4 ) [5] was a NASA Space Shuttle mission, during which Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the International Space Station on 16 May 2010. [6] STS-132 was launched from the Kennedy Space Center on 14 May 2010. [3] The primary payload was the Russian Rassvet Mini-Resea
#15 STS-56
STS-56 was a NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission to perform special experiments. The mission was launched from Kennedy Space Center , Florida , on 8 April 1993. 1993 American crewed spaceflight STS-56 Components of the ATLAS-2 laboratory in the payload bay of Discovery Names Space Transportation Sy
#16 Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory , previously called the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer , is a NASA three-telescope space observatory for studying gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and monitoring the afterglow in X-ray, and UV/Visible light at the location of a burst. [5] It was launched on 20 November 2004, ab
#17 Voskhod 1
Voskhod 1 ( Russian : Восход-1 , lit. ' Sunrise-1 ' ) was the seventh crewed Soviet space flight. Flown by cosmonauts Vladimir Komarov , Konstantin Feoktistov , and Boris Yegorov , it launched 12 October 1964, and returned on the 13th. Voskhod 1 was the first human spaceflight to carry more than o
#18 NERVA
The Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application ( NERVA ) was a nuclear thermal rocket engine development program that ran for roughly two decades. Its principal objective was to "establish a technology base for nuclear rocket engine systems to be utilized in the design and development of propulsi
#19 Discoverer 2
Discoverer 2 was an American optical reconnaissance satellite launched on 13 April 1959 at 21:18:39 GMT, the second of three test flights of the Corona KH-1 spy satellite series. Discoverer 2 was the first satellite to be stabilized in orbit in all three axes and to be maneuvered on command from the
#20 Soyuz T-10
Soyuz T-10 was the fifth expedition to the Salyut 7 space station . It entered a darkened and empty station because of the loss of Soyuz T-10a . It was visited by the sixth and seventh expeditions. During the course of the cosmonauts stay, three extravehicular activities took place to repair a fuel