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Cosmonaut / Cosmonaut


#1 Valentin Varlamov

Valentin Stepanovich Varlamov ( Russian : Валентин Степанович Варламов ; 15 August 1934 – 2 October 1980) was a Russian jet pilot who was selected for Air Force Group 1 , the first intake of 20 cosmonaut candidates in 1960. After his disqualification from the space program on medical grounds, he was

#2 Albert Scott Crossfield

Albert Scott Crossfield (October 2, 1921 – April 19, 2006) was an American naval officer and test pilot . In 1953, he became the first pilot to fly at twice the speed of sound . Crossfield was the first of twelve pilots who flew the North American X-15 , an experimental spaceplane jointly operated b

#3 Scott Altman

Scott Douglas "Scooter" Altman (born August 15, 1959) is a retired United States Navy Captain and naval aviator , engineer , test pilot and former NASA astronaut . He is a veteran of four Space Shuttle missions. His fourth mission on STS-125 was the last servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telesco

#4 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

#5 Ricardo Peralta y Fabi

Ricardo Peralta y Fabi (August 15, 1950 – December 31, 2017 [2] ) was a Mexican mechanical engineer and former astronaut trainee [3] who was a backup for astronaut Rodolfo Neri Vela on STS-61-B . [4] [5] Peralta was one of three people selected among 400 applicants to the Mexican space program . Ric

#6 Buzz Aldrin

Buzz Aldrin ( / ˈ ɔː l d r ɪ n / ; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. ; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut , engineer and fighter pilot . He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission. As the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, he and mission commander

#7 Neil Armstrong

Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930   – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer , and the first person to walk on the Moon . He was also a naval aviator , test pilot , and university professor. American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2012) For other uses, see Neil A

#8 Bruce McCandless II

Bruce McCandless II (born Byron Willis McCandless ; [1] June 8, 1937   – December 21, 2017) was a United States Navy officer and aviator , electrical engineer , and NASA astronaut . In 1984, during the first of his two Space Shuttle missions, he completed the first untethered spacewalk by using the

#9 Sergey Prokopyev (cosmonaut)

Sergey Valerievich Prokopyev ( Russian : Серге́й Вале́рьевич Проко́пьев ; born 19 February 1975) is a Russian cosmonaut. On 6 June 2018 he launched on his first flight into space aboard Soyuz MS-09 and spent 197 days in space as a flight engineer on Expedition 56 / 57 . He is currently in space, hav

#10 Donald R. McMonagle

Donald Ray McMonagle (born May 14, 1952) ( Col , USAF , Ret.) is a former astronaut and a veteran of three shuttle flights. He became the Manager, Launch Integration, at the Kennedy Space Center , Florida , on August 15, 1997. In this capacity he was responsible for final shuttle preparation, launch

#11 Bill Bridgeman

William Barton Bridgeman (June 25, 1916 – September 29, 1968) was an American test pilot who broke aviation records while working for the Douglas Aircraft Company , testing experimental aircraft. In July 1951, the United States Navy announced the D-558-II Skyrocket piloted by Bridgeman had "attained

#12 Sally Ride

Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951   – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist . Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space , after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982.

#13 Sonny Carter

Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr. , M.D. (August 15, 1947 – April 5, 1991), ( Capt , USN ), was an American chemist , physician , professional soccer player, naval officer and aviator , test pilot , and NASA astronaut who flew on STS-33 . 20th-century American astronaut, chemist, and U.S. Navy office

#14 Walter Cunningham

Ronnie Walter Cunningham (born March 16, 1932) is a retired American astronaut . In 1968, he was a lunar module pilot on the Apollo 7 mission. He was NASA's third civilian astronaut (after Neil Armstrong and Elliot See ), and has also been a fighter pilot , physicist , entrepreneur, venture capitali


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Museum / Museum


#1 Queensland Air Museum

The Queensland Air Museum is a not-for-profit community-owned aviation museum located at Caloundra Airport in Queensland , Australia . Its mission is to collect and preserve all aspects of aviation heritage with an emphasis on Australia and Queensland. The museum has the largest collection of histor


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Spacecraft / Spacecraft


#1 Progress M-14

Progress M-14 ( Russian : Прогресс M-14 ), was a Russian uncrewed Progress cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1992 to resupply the Mir space station. The spacecraft was modified to transport the first VDU propulsion unit to Mir. [3] Progress M-14 also carried the sixth VBK-Raduga capsule, [5] wh

#2 GOES-17

GOES-17 (designated pre-launch as GOES-S ) is an environmental satellite operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The satellite is second in the four-satellite GOES-R series ( GOES-16 , -17, - T , and - U ). GOES-17 supports the Geostationary Operational Environmental

#3 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

#4 USA-126

USA-126 , also known as GPS IIA-17 , GPS II-26 and GPS SVN-40 , is an American navigation satellite which forms part of the Global Positioning System . It was the seventeenth of nineteen Block IIA GPS satellites to be launched. USA-126 Names Navstar 2A-17 GPS IIA-17 GPS II-26 GPS SVN-40 Mission type

#5 Soyuz 32

Soyuz 32 ( Russian : Союз 32 , Union 32 ) was a 1979 Soviet crewed space flight to the Salyut 6 space station . [1] It was the eighth mission to and seventh successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 32 crew was the third long-duration crew to man the space station. Soyuz 32 COSPAR ID 19

#6 Progress M-8

Progress M-8 ( Russian : Прогресс М-8 ) was a Soviet uncrewed cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1991 to resupply the Mir space station. [2] The twenty-sixth of sixty four Progress spacecraft to visit Mir, it used the Progress-M 11F615A55 configuration, [3] and had the serial number 207. [4] It

#7 Mercury-Atlas 8

Mercury-Atlas 8 ( MA-8 ) was the fifth United States crewed space mission , part of NASA 's Mercury program . Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr. , orbited the Earth six times in the Sigma 7 spacecraft on October 3, 1962, in a nine-hour flight focused mainly on technical evaluation rather than on scient

#8 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

#9 Salyut 6

Salyut 6 ( Russian : Салют-6 ; lit. Salute 6 ), DOS-5 , was a Soviet orbital space station , the eighth station of the Salyut programme . It was launched on 29 September 1977 by a Proton rocket . Salyut 6 was the first space station to receive large numbers of crewed and uncrewed spacecraft for huma

#10 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

#11 Project Beacon

Beacon was one of America's first satellite programs. A balloon satellite , its objective was to study atmospheric density at its orbital altitude and to be the first United States satellite visible to the naked eye. Booster problems caused both orbital attempts to end in failure. Not to be confused

#12 BSAT-3a

BSAT-3a , is a geostationary communications satellite operated by Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT) which was designed and manufactured by Lockheed Martin on the A2100 platform. It is stationed on the 110,0° East orbital slot with its companion BSAT-3b and BSAT-3c from where they pro

#13 BSAT-4b

BSAT-4b , is a geostationary communications satellite ordered by Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation and designed and manufactured by SSL of Maxar Technologies on the SSL 1300 platform. It is expected to be stationed on the 110.0° East orbital latitude for direct television broadcasting of 4K

#14 Progress M-4

Progress M-4 ( Russian : Прогресс М-4 ) was a Soviet uncrewed cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1990 to resupply the Mir space station. [2] The twenty-second of sixty four Progress spacecraft to visit Mir, it used the Progress-M 11F615A55 configuration, and had the serial number 204. [3] It car

#15 Vostok 3 and 4

Vostok 3 ( Russian : Восток-3 , lit.   ' Orient 3' or 'East 3 ' ) and Vostok 4 ( Восток-4 , ' Orient 4' or 'East 4') were Soviet space program flights in August 1962, intended to determine the ability of the human body to function in conditions of weightlessness , test the ground control capability

#16 CONTOUR

The Comet Nucleus Tour ( CONTOUR ) was a NASA Discovery-class space probe that failed shortly after its July 2002 launch. It had as its primary objective close flybys of two comet nuclei with the possibility of a flyby of a third known comet or an as-yet-undiscovered comet. NASA space probe CONTOUR

#17 Kosmos 601

Kosmos 601 ( Russian : Космос 601 meaning Cosmos 601 ), known before launch as DS-P1-Yu No.60 , was a Soviet satellite which was launched in 1973 as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik programme. It was a 400-kilogram (880   lb) spacecraft, which was built by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau , and was used

#18 Mission Extension Vehicle

A Mission Extension Vehicle ( MEV ) [1] is a type of spacecraft designed to extend the functional lifetime of another spacecraft through on-orbit satellite servicing . They are 2010s-design small-scale in-space satellite-refueling spacecraft first launched in 2019. The MEV spacecraft grew out of a c

#19 Landsat 4

Landsat 4 is the fourth satellite of the Landsat program . It was launched on July 16, 1982, with the primary goal of providing a global archive of satellite imagery. Although the Landsat Program is managed by NASA , data from Landsat 4 was collected and distributed by the U.S. Geological Survey . L

#20 Hipparcos

Hipparcos was a scientific satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA), launched in 1989 and operated until 1993. It was the first space experiment devoted to precision astrometry , the accurate measurement of the positions of celestial objects on the sky. [3] This permitted the first high-precisio


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