langs: 12 августа [ru] / august 12 [en] / 12. august [de] / 12 août [fr] / 12 agosto [it] / 12 de agosto [es]
days: august 9 / august 10 / august 11 / august 12 / august 13 / august 14 / august 15
#1 Deke Slayton
Donald Kent " Deke " Slayton (March 1, 1924 – June 13, 1993) was a United States Air Force pilot , aeronautical engineer , and test pilot who was selected as one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts . He went on to become NASA's first Chief of the Astronaut Office and Director of Flight Cre
#2 Michael Collins (astronaut)
Michael Collins (October 31, 1930 – April 28, 2021) was an American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 command module Columbia around the Moon in 1969 while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin , made the first crewed landing on the surface . He was also a test pilot and major general in the
#3 Ed Lu
Edward Tsang " Ed " Lu ( simplified Chinese : 卢杰 ; traditional Chinese : 盧傑 ; pinyin : Lú Jié ; born July 1, 1963) is an American physicist and former NASA astronaut . He flew on two Space Shuttle flights, and made an extended stay aboard the International Space Station . [1] American physicist and
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
Charles Eldon Brady Jr. (August 12, 1951 – July 23, 2006) was an American physician , a captain in the United States Navy and a NASA astronaut . [1] [2] [3] He spent 16 days in space on the Space Shuttle 's STS-78 flight in 1996. American astronaut Charles Eldon Brady Jr. Born ( 1951-08-12 ) August
Frank Lee Culbertson Jr. (born May 15, 1949) ( Capt , USN , Ret.) is an American former naval officer and aviator , test pilot , aerospace engineer , NASA astronaut , graduate of the US Naval Academy , and member of the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame . He served as the Commander of the Interna
William Shatner [3] OC (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor. In a career spanning seven decades, he is best known for his portrayal of James T. Kirk in the Star Trek franchise, from his 1965 debut as the captain of the starship Enterprise in the second pilot of the first Star Trek television se
#8 Lisa Nowak
Lisa Marie Nowak (née Caputo , born May 10, 1963) is an American aeronautical engineer , and former NASA astronaut and United States Navy captain . Nowak served as naval flight officer and test pilot in the Navy, and was selected by NASA for NASA Astronaut Group 16 in 1996, qualifying as a mission s
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
Vladimir Nikolayevich Dezhurov ( Russian : Влади́мир Никола́евич Дежу́ров ; born July 30, 1962) is a Russian former cosmonaut who resides in Star City, Moscow . He is a veteran of two spaceflights, to the Mir and International Space Stations. During his career, Dezhurov also conducted nine spacewalk
#11 Mikhail Tyurin
Mikhail Vladislavovich Tyurin ( Russian : Михаил Владиславович Тюрин ; born March 2, 1960) is a former Russian cosmonaut who flew several missions to the International Space Station and completed four spacewalks during his career. He was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation for his work
Frederick Drew Gregory (born January 7, 1941) is a former United States Air Force pilot , military engineer , test pilot , and NASA astronaut as well as former NASA Deputy Administrator. He also served briefly as NASA Acting Administrator in early 2005, covering the period between the departure of S
#13 Ellison Onizuka
Ellison Shoji Onizuka ( エリソン・ショージ・オニヅカ, 鬼塚 承次 , Onizuka Shōji , June 24, 1946 – January 28, 1986) was an American astronaut , engineer , and USAF test pilot from Kealakekua, Hawaii , who successfully flew into space with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-C . He died in the destruction of the S
#1 National Air and Space Museum
The National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution , also called the Air and Space Museum , is a museum in Washington, D.C. , US. It was established in 1946 as the National Air Museum and opened its main building on the National Mall near L'Enfant Plaza in 1976. In 2018, the museum saw
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
The Japan Airlines Safety Promotion Center ( 日本航空安全啓発センター , Nihon Kōkū Anzai Keihatsu Sentā [1] ) is a museum and educational center operated by Japan Airlines to promote airline safety. It is located on the second floor of the Daini Sogo Building ( 第二綜合ビル , Daini Sōgō Biru ) on the grounds of Tokyo
Shannon Airport ( ICAO : KEZF , FAA LID : EZF ) is a public use airport located two miles south of the City of Fredericksburg, Virginia , United States . [1] It was opened in October 1950 by Sidney L. Shannon Jr in honor of his father, Sidney Shannon Sr, an early investor in Eastern Airlines . [2] [
Floyd Bennett Field is an airfield in the Marine Park neighborhood of southeast Brooklyn in New York City , along the shore of Jamaica Bay . The airport originally hosted commercial and general aviation traffic before being used as a naval air station . Bennett Field is currently part of the Gateway
#1 MABES
Magnetic Bearing Flywheel Experimental System ( MABES ), also known as Jindai ( じんだい ) is a National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) satellite mission. It conducted experiments on the levitation of the magnetic bearing flywheel in a zero-G environment, and tested the function of the launch
#2 Kosmos 1675
Kosmos 1675 ( Russian : Космос 1675 meaning Cosmos 1675 ) is a Soviet US-K missile early warning satellite which was launched in 1985 as part of the Soviet military's Oko programme. The satellite is designed to identify missile launches using optical telescopes and infrared sensors . [2] Kosmos 1675
#3 USA-262
USA-262 , also known as GPS IIF-10 , GPS SVN-72 and NAVSTAR 74 , is an American navigation satellite which forms part of the Global Positioning System . It was the tenth of twelve Block IIF satellites to be launched. [2] USA-262 A Block IIF GPS satellite Mission type Navigation Operator US Air Force
#4 STS-105
STS-105 was a mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station , launched from Kennedy Space Center , Florida, 10 August 2001. This mission was Discovery ' s final mission until STS-114 , because Discovery was grounded for a refit, and then all Shuttles were grounded in the
#5 NuSTAR
NuSTAR ( Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array , also named Explorer 93 and SMEX-11 ) is a NASA space-based X-ray telescope that uses a conical approximation to a Wolter telescope to focus high energy X-rays from astrophysical sources, especially for nuclear spectroscopy , and operates in the range
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous – Shoemaker ( NEAR Shoemaker ), renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker , was a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros from close orbi
Lucy is a NASA space probe on a twelve-year journey to eight different asteroids, visiting a main belt asteroid as well as seven Jupiter trojans , [3] [4] asteroids which share Jupiter 's orbit around the Sun , orbiting either ahead of or behind the planet. All target encounters will be flyby encoun
#8 Kosmos 672
Kosmos 672 ( Russian : Космос 672 meaning Cosmos 672 ) was the second uncrewed test of the ASTP Soyuz spacecraft . Also had APAS-75 androgynous docking system . USSR second uncrewed test of the ASTP Soyuz spacecraft A crewed Soyuz 7K-TM as seen from Apollo module during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
#9 Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory ( SOHO ) is a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft built by a European industrial consortium led by Matra Marconi Space (now Airbus Defence and Space ) that was launched on a Lockheed Martin Atlas IIAS launch vehicle on 2 December 1995, to study the Sun . It
#10 Mercury-Atlas 5
Mercury-Atlas 5 was an American spaceflight of the Mercury program . It was launched on November 29, 1961, with Enos , a chimpanzee , aboard. The craft orbited the Earth twice and splashed down about 200 miles (320 km) south of Bermuda , and Enos became the first primate from the United States and
#11 Transit Research and Attitude Control
The Transit Research and Attitude Control ( TRAAC ) satellite was launched by the U. S. Navy from Cape Canaveral along with Transit 4B on November 15, 1961. Drawing of the transit 4B and TRAAC satellite in orbit. Satellite Transit Research and Attitude Control (TRAAC) Artist's impression of TRAAC in
#12 Cygnus NG-16
Cygnus NG-16 , [2] [3] previously known as Cygnus OA-16 , was the sixteenth flight of the Northrop Grumman robotic resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its fifteenth flight to the International Space Station (ISS) under the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-2) contract with NASA . The mission was launched
#13 Kosmos 53
Kosmos 53 ( Russian : Космос 53 meaning Cosmos 53 ), also known as DS-A1 No.5 was a technology demonstration satellite which was launched by the Soviet Union in 1965 as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik programme. Its primary mission was to demonstrate technologies for future Soviet military satell
#14 Soyuz 16
Soyuz 16 ( Russian : Союз 16 , Union 16 ) was a December, 1974, crewed test flight for a joint Soviet -United States space flight which culminated in the Apollo-Soyuz mission in July 1975. The two-man Soviet crew, Anatoly Filipchenko and Nikolai Rukavishnikov , tested a docking ring and other system
#15 Progress 37
Progress 37 ( Russian : Прогресс 37 ) was a Soviet uncrewed Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in July 1988 to resupply the Mir space station. Soviet spacecraft Progress 37 A Progress 7K-TG spacecraft Mission type Mir resupply COSPAR ID 1988-061A SATCAT no. 19322 [1] Spacecraft properties
The Johannes Kepler ATV , or Automated Transfer Vehicle 002 ( ATV-002 ), was an uncrewed cargo spacecraft built to resupply the International Space Station (ISS). It was launched on February 16, 2011 by the European Space Agency (ESA). [3] Johannes Kepler carried propellant, air and dry cargo weighi
#17 Project Echo
Project Echo was the first passive communications satellite experiment. Each of the two American spacecraft, launched in 1960 and 1964, were metalized balloon satellites acting as passive reflectors of microwave signals. Communication signals were transmitted from one location on Earth and bounced o
The Albert Einstein ATV , or Automated Transfer Vehicle 004 ( ATV-004 ), was a European uncrewed cargo resupply spacecraft , named after the German-born physicist Albert Einstein . [3] It was built to supply the International Space Station (ISS) with propellant, water, air, and dry cargo, and also t
#19 TUMnanoSAT
TUMnanoSAT is a nanosatellite and the first artificial satellite made by Moldova . It was built by the Technical University of Moldova (UTM) and was launched on 15 July 2022. Space X 's Falcon 9 rocket carried TUMnanoSAT to the International Space Station (ISS). This was through the SpaceX CRS-25 Co
#20 Kosmos 434
Kosmos 434 ( Russian : Космос 434 ; meaning Cosmos 434 ) was the final uncrewed test flight of the Soviet LK Lander . It performed the longest burn of the four uncrewed LK Lander tests, validating the backup rocket engine of the LK's Blok E propulsion system. It finished in a 186 km by 11,804 km