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Cosmonaut / Cosmonaut
#1 Yuri Malyshev (cosmonaut)
Yuri Vasilyevich Malyshev ( Russian : Ю́рий Васи́льевич Ма́лышев ; 27 August 1941 – 8 November 1999) was a Soviet cosmonaut who served on the Soyuz T-2 (5–9 June 1980) and Soyuz T-11 (3–11 April 1984) missions. [1] [2] Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Vasilyevich Malyshev Born ( 1941-08-27 ) 27 August 1941 Nik
- Yuri Vasilyevich Malyshev ( Russian : Ю́рий Васи́льевич Ма́лышев ; 27 august 1941 – 8 November 1999) was a Soviet cosmonaut who served on the Soyuz T-2 (5–9 June 1980) and Soyu ...
- ... (3–11 April 1984) missions. [1] [2] Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Vasilyevich Malyshev Born ( 1941-08-27 ) 27 august 1941 Nikolayevsk , Volgograd Oblast , USSR Died 8 November 1999 (1999-11-08) (aged 58) Zvyozdny Gor ...
#2 Akihiko Hoshide
Akihiko Hoshide ( 星出 彰彦 , Hoshide Akihiko , born December 28, 1968) is a Japanese engineer , JAXA astronaut , and former Commander of the International Space Station . On August 30, 2012, Hoshide became the third Japanese astronaut to walk in space. [1] Japanese engineer and JAXA astronaut Akihiko H
- ... Gennady Padalka , Russian Flight Engineer Sergei Revin and NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba . [11] On 27 august 2012 Hoshide robotically captured and berthed JAXA's HTV-3 uncrewed cargo spacecraft, [12] on 30 Au ...
#3 James van Hoften
James Dougal Adrianus "Ox" van Hoften (born June 11, 1944 [2] ) is an American civil and hydraulic engineer , retired U.S. Navy officer and aviator , and a former astronaut for NASA . James D. A. van Hoften Born ( 1944-06-11 ) June 11, 1944 (age 78) Fresno , California , U.S. Status Retired Nation
- ... was accomplished in 107 Earth orbits in 167 hours, 40 minutes, 7 seconds. [2] STS-51-I : Discovery ( august 27 to September 3, 1985) launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and returned to land at Edwar ...
#4 Hamish Harding
Hamish Harding is a UAE-based British businessman , aviator , explorer , and space tourist . He is the founder of Action Group and chairman of Action Aviation, an international aircraft brokerage company with headquarters in Dubai , United Arab Emirates . [3] [4] [5] Hamish Harding currently holds t
- ... , founder of the CCF, carrying the flag on the flight to India. [26] [27] AWARDS AND RECOGNITION On august 27, 2022, Harding was inducted into the Living Legends of Aviation at the third Living Legends of Aviat ...
#5 John M. Lounge
John Michael "Mike" Lounge (June 28, 1946 – March 1, 2011) was an American engineer , a United States Navy officer, a Vietnam War veteran, and a NASA astronaut . A veteran of three Space Shuttle flights, Lounge logged over 482 hours in space. He was a mission specialist on STS-51-I (1985) and STS-
- ... . SPACEFLIGHTS STS-51-I Space Shuttle Discovery , launched from Kennedy Space Center , Florida , on august 27, 1985. During that mission Lounge's duties included deployment of the Australian AUSSAT communicatio ...
#6 Shannon Lucid
Shannon Wells Lucid (born January 14, 1943) is an American biochemist and retired NASA astronaut . At one time, she held the record for the longest duration stay in space by an American and by a woman. She has flown in space five times including a prolonged mission aboard the Russian Mir space stati
- ... rst of which, STS-40 /SLS-1, was flown in June 1991. [52] The rest of the crew were not named until august 27, 1992. John E. Blaha was designated the mission commander, with pilot Richard A. Searfoss and Willia ...
#7 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
- ... pyev is married to Ekaterina Prokopyeva (née Negreyeva), who gave birth to their daughter, Anna, on 27 august 1997 and son, Timofei, on 23 February 2010. [2] AWARDS AND HONORS Hero of the Russian Federation (1 ...
#8 Anna Kikina
Anna Yuryevna Kikina ( Russian : Анна Юрьевна Кикина , born 27 August 1984 in Novosibirsk ) is a Russian engineer and test cosmonaut, selected in 2012. [1] She is the only woman cosmonaut currently in active service at Roscosmos . [2] In June 2020, fellow cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko said that Kikina is
- Anna Yuryevna Kikina ( Russian : Анна Юрьевна Кикина , born 27 august 1984 in Novosibirsk ) is a Russian engineer and test cosmonaut, selected in 2012. [1] She is the on ...
- ... for a 188-day mission. [4] Russian engineer and cosmonaut Anna Yuryevna Kikina Born ( 1984-08-27 ) 27 august 1984 (age 38) Novosibirsk , Soviet Union (now Russia) Status Active Nationality Russian Occupation ...
#9 Svetlana Savitskaya
Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya ( Russian : Светла́на Евге́ньевна Сави́цкая ; born 8 August 1948) is a Russian former aviator and Soviet cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space. On her 1984 Soyuz T-12 mission she became the first woman to fly to space twice, a
- ... rbital module of Soyuz T-7 as a private area, but slept as well as the men in the space station. On august 27, 1982, Popov, Savitskaya, and Serebrov returned to Earth in Soyuz T-5. The total duration of the mis ...
#10 Richard O. Covey
Richard Oswalt Covey (born August 1, 1946) is a retired United States Air Force officer, former NASA astronaut , and a member of the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame . American astronaut This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . ( Learn h
- ... Covey was on the five-man crew of STS-51-I , which launched from Kennedy Space Center , Florida, on august 27, 1985. During this seven-day mission, crew members deployed three communications satellites: the Nav ...
#11 William Frederick Fisher
William Frederick Fisher (born April 1, 1946) is an American physician and a former NASA astronaut . Fisher went into space in 1985 on board the Space Shuttle. He retired from NASA in 1992 [1] and returned to the full-time practice of medicine. His time at NASA coincided with that of his former wife
- ... sher was a mission specialist on STS-51-I , which launched from Kennedy Space Center , Florida , on august 27, 1985. STS-51-I was acknowledged as the most successful Space Shuttle mission yet flown. The crew ab ...
#12 Sergei Krikalev
Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev ( Russian : Сергей Константинович Крикалёв , also transliterated as Sergei Krikalyov ; born 27 August 1958) is a Russian mechanical engineer and former cosmonaut . As a prominent rocket scientist , he is a veteran of six space flights and ranks third to Gennady Padalk
- ... rikalev ( Russian : Сергей Константинович Крикалёв , also transliterated as Sergei Krikalyov ; born 27 august 1958) is a Russian mechanical engineer and former cosmonaut . As a prominent rocket scientist , he ...
- ... stantinovich and the family name is Krikalev . Sergei Krikalev Krikalev in 2005 Born ( 1958-08-27 ) 27 august 1958 (age 64) Leningrad , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union Status Retired Nationality Soviet (1958-1991) ...
#13 Joseph A. Walker
Joseph Albert Walker (February 20, 1921 – June 8, 1966) ( Capt , USAF ) was an American World War II pilot , experimental physicist , NASA test pilot , and astronaut who was the first person to fly an airplane to space. He was one of twelve pilots who flew the North American X-15 , an experimental s
- ... ing research projects. He flew in three versions of the Bell X-1 : the X-1#2 (two flights, first on august 27, 1951), X-1A (one flight), X-1E (21 flights). When Walker attempted a second flight in the X-1A on A ...
Spacecraft / Spacecraft
#1 Progress MS-06
Progress MS-06 ( Russian : Прогресс МC-06 ), identified by NASA as Progress 67P , was a Progress spaceflight operated by Roscosmos to resupply the International Space Station (ISS). It was launched on 14 June 2017. 2017 Russian resupply spaceflight to the ISS Progress MS-06 Progress MS-06 approaches
- ... breakdown of cargo bound for the ISS: [3] Fuel: 705 kg Oxygen and air: 50 kg Water: 420 kg ORBIT On 27 august 2017, Progress MS-06's engines were used for a 177-second burn to raise the ISS by around 0.97 km ( ...
#2 SpaceX CRS-18
SpaceX CRS-18 , also known as SpX-18 , was SpaceX 's 18th flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services program for NASA . It was launched on 25 July 2019 aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. [6] [7] 2019 American resupply spaceflight to the ISS SpaceX CRS-18 Dragon C108.3 ap
- ... Launch site Cape Canaveral SLC-40 Contractor SpaceX End of mission Disposal Recovered Landing date 27 august 2019 20:20 ( 2019-08-27UTC20:21 ) UTC [2] Landing site Pacific Ocean, off Baja California Orbital p ...
- ... ny nadir RMS capture 27 July 13:11 UTC [3] Berthing date 27 July 2019 16:01 UTC [4] Unberthing date 27 august 2019 12:25 UTC [5] RMS release 27 August 2019 14:59 UTC [5] Time berthed 30 days, 20 hours, 24 minu ...
- ... ] Berthing date 27 July 2019 16:01 UTC [4] Unberthing date 27 August 2019 12:25 UTC [5] RMS release 27 august 2019 14:59 UTC [5] Time berthed 30 days, 20 hours, 24 minutes NASA SpX-18 mission patch Commercial ...
#3 BOR-5
The BOR-5 ( Russian : БОР-5, «Беспилотный Орбитальный Ракетоплан 5» , romanized : Bespilotnyi Orbital'nyi Raketoplan 5 , lit. ' Unpiloted Orbital Rocketplane 5 ' ) is a 1:8 sized test flight vehicle, used to study the main aerodynamic, thermal, acoustic and stability characteristics of the Buran
- ... [2] 4 July 1984 - aborted 5 June 1984 - No. 501 17 April 1985 - No. 502 27 December 1986 - No. 503 27 august 1984 - No. 504 22 June 1988 - No. 505 CURRENT LOCATIONS Two survivors of the BOR-5 tests are known ...
#4 Progress M-24
Progress M-24 ( Russian : Прогресс М-24 ) was a Russian uncrewed cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1994 to resupply the Mir space station; [1] causing minor damage to the station as the result of a collision during a failed attempt to dock. Progress M-24 A Progress-M spacecraft Mission type Mir
- ... ome . [3] Following two days of free flight, it approached the forward port of Mir's core module on 27 august , however an attempt to dock with the station failed. A second attempt was made on 30 August, howeve ...
#5 STS-115
STS-115 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis . It was the first assembly mission to the ISS after the Columbia disaster , following the two successful Return to Flight missions, STS-114 and STS-121 . STS-115 launched from LC-39B at the
- ... y scheduled to launch in April 2003. The Columbia accident in February 2003 pushed the date back to 27 august 2006, which was again moved back for various reasons, including a threat from Tropical Storm Ernest ...
- ... sion by STS-116 MISSION BACKGROUND NASA managers decided to move the STS-115 launch date forward to 27 august to obtain better lighting conditions to photograph the external tank. This occurred before with STS ...
- ... ems. [9] At the end of the two-day meeting, NASA managers had decided to proceed with the launch on 27 august 2006. However, on 18 August 2006, NASA decided to replace the antenna bolts with Atlantis still on ...
- ... ssion Management Team ordered the mission postponed for at least 24 hours to assess damage. [12] On 27 august , the decision was made to postpone the launch for another 24 hours, making the earliest possible la ...
#6 STS-128
STS-128 ( ISS assembly flight 17A ) was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) that launched on August 28, 2009. Space Shuttle Discovery carried the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Leonardo as its primary payload. Leonardo contained a collection of experiments for study
- ... me rest. [29] [30] [31] The launch team evaluated the issue, passing on a possible launch window on august 27, 2009, at 01:10 EDT. The launch was delayed until 23:59 EDT, August 28, 2009, to allow the engineers ...
#7 Mercury-Atlas 6
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
- ... in May 1960. It was chosen for the MA-6 mission in October 1960 and delivered to Cape Canaveral on august 27, 1961. Mercury spacecraft #13 and Atlas #109-D were stacked on the pad at Launch Complex 14 on Janua ...
#8 Explorer 4
Explorer 4 was an American satellite launched on 26 July 1958. It was instrumented by Dr. James van Allen 's group. The Department of Defense 's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) had initially planned two satellites for the purposes of studying the Van Allen radiation belts and the effects of
- ... s at high altitude. Explorer 4 was in orbit and operational during the three Project Argus launches 27 august 1958 to 6 September 1958, part of the mission objective was to observe the effects of these high-al ...
#9 Mariner 1
Mariner 1 , built to conduct the first American planetary flyby of Venus , was the first spacecraft of NASA 's interplanetary Mariner program . Developed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory , and originally planned to be a purpose-built probe launched summer 1962, Mariner 1's design was changed when the Ce
- ... ady on hand, and a second launch from the same pad was manageable before the end of August. [24] On 27 august 1962, Mariner 1's sister spacecraft was successfully launched, becoming on 14 December 1962 the fir ...
#10 Long March 4C
The Long March 4C , also known as the Chang Zheng 4C , CZ-4C and LM-4C , previously designated Long March 4B-II , is a Chinese orbital launch vehicle . It is launched from the Jiuquan , Taiyuan , and Xichang Satellite Launch Centers , and consists of 3 stages. Long March 4C vehicles have been used t
- ... cess 16 Y17 10 December 2014 19:33 JSLC , SLS-2 Yaogan 25A Yaogan 25B Yaogan 25C LEO Success 17 Y18 27 august 2015 02:31 TSLC , LA-9 Yaogan 27 SSO Success 18 Y8 26 November 2015 21:24 TSLC , LA-9 Yaogan 29 SSO ...
#11 USA-206
USA-206 , [1] also GPS SVN-50 , PRN-05 and NAVSTAR 64 and known before launch as GPS IIR-21 , GPS IIRM-8 or GPS IIR-21(M) , is an American navigation satellite which forms part of the Navstar Global Positioning System . It was the twenty-first and last Block IIR GPS satellite to be launched, and the
- ... lacing USA-126 , or GPS IIA-26, which was launched in July 1996. [4] It was declared operational on 27 august 2009. [7]
#12 Luna 11
Luna 11 (E-6LF series) was an uncrewed space mission of the Soviet Union 's Luna program . It was also called Lunik 11 . Luna 11 was launched towards the Moon from an Earth-orbiting platform and entered lunar orbit on 27 August 1966. Luna 11 stamp Mission type Lunar orbiter Operator GSMZ Lavochkin C
- ... . Luna 11 was launched towards the Moon from an Earth-orbiting platform and entered lunar orbit on 27 august 1966. Luna 11 stamp Mission type Lunar orbiter Operator GSMZ Lavochkin COSPAR ID 1966-078A SATCAT n ...
- ... 2931 km Inclination 27° Period 178 minutes Epoch 24 August 1966 [1] Lunar orbiter Orbital insertion 27 august 1966, 21:49 GMT Orbits 277 Instruments Imaging system for lunar photography Gamma-ray spectrometer ...
- ... Luna 11, launched only two weeks after the U.S. Lunar Orbiter , entered lunar orbit at 21:49 GMT on 27 august 1966. Parameters were 160 x 1193 kilometers. During the mission, the TV camera failed to return usa ...
#13 Gemini 5
Gemini 5 (officially Gemini V ) [3] was a 1965 crewed spaceflight in NASA 's Project Gemini . It was the third crewed Gemini flight, the eleventh crewed American spaceflight (including two X-15 flights above 100 kilometers (54 nmi) ), and the nineteenth human spaceflight of all time. It was also t
- ... lometers (87 nmi) Apogee 350.1 kilometers (189.0 nmi) Period 89.59 min Inclination 32.61° Reentered august 27, 1965 Conrad, who had a reputation for frequently having a punchline on hand, called the mission "Ei ...
#14 Mariner 2
Mariner 2 ( Mariner-Venus 1962 ), an American space probe to Venus , was the first robotic space probe to conduct a successful planetary encounter. The first successful spacecraft in the NASA Mariner program , it was a simplified version of the Block I spacecraft of the Ranger program and an exact c
- ... t capacity as the Soviet 8K78 booster. The Mariner 2 spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral on august 27, 1962, and passed as close as 34,773 kilometers (21,607 mi) to Venus on December 14, 1962. [3] 1962 ...
- ... nch mass 202.8 kilograms (447 lb) Power 220 watts (at Venus encounter) Start of mission Launch date august 27, 1962, 06:53:14 ( 1962-08-27UTC06:53:14Z ) UTC [1] Rocket Atlas LV-3 Agena-B Launch site Cape Canave ...
- ... suffered component damage due to shorted transistors. [31] LAUNCH Photo of launch of Mariner 2, on august 27, 1962. Mariner Atlas-Agena ignition Animation of Mariner 2 ' s trajectory from August 27, 1962, to D ...
- ... iner 2, on August 27, 1962. Mariner Atlas-Agena ignition Animation of Mariner 2 ' s trajectory from august 27, 1962, to December 31, 1962 Mariner 2 · Venus · Earth At 1:53 AM EST on August 27, Mariner 2 was lau ...
- ... s trajectory from August 27, 1962, to December 31, 1962 Mariner 2 · Venus · Earth At 1:53 AM EST on august 27, Mariner 2 was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 12 at 06:53:14 UTC. [15 ...
#15 Phobos 1
Phobos 1 was an uncrewed Soviet space probe of the Phobos Program launched from the Baikonour launch facility on 7 July 1988. [1] Its intended mission was to explore Mars and its moons Phobos and Deimos . The mission failed on 2 September 1988 when a computer malfunction caused the end-of-mission or
- ... S The probe observed the sun in both x-rays (0.5–2.5 nm) and Extreme ultraviolet (17–18 nm). [8] On 27 august a solar flare was observed. [8] LEGACY Phobos 1 failed before it could achieve its main scientific ...
#16 STS-51-I
STS-51-I was the 20th mission of NASA 's Space Shuttle program and the sixth flight of Space Shuttle Discovery . During the mission, Discovery deployed three communications satellites into orbit. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center , Florida , on August 27, 1985, and landed at Edwards Air
- ... communications satellites into orbit. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center , Florida , on august 27, 1985, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base , California , on September 3, 1985. 1985 American crewe ...
- ... urs, 46 minutes First: 7 hours, 20 minutes Second: 4 hours, 26 minutes Start of mission Launch date august 27, 1985, 10:58:01 UTC Rocket Space Shuttle Discovery Launch site Kennedy Space Center , LC-39A Contrac ...
- ... ather and ship in entering SRB recovery area MISSION SUMMARY Discovery launched at 6:58 a.m. EDT on august 27, 1985. Two earlier launch attempts, one on August 24 and another on August 25, were scrubbed – the f ...
- ... second because the backup orbiter computer failed and had to be replaced. The successful launch on august 27, 1985 took place just as an approaching storm front reached the launch pad area. The five-man STS-51 ...
- ... , Hughes Space and Communications . Both Aussat-1 and ASC-1 were deployed on the day of the launch, 27 august 1985. Syncom IV-4 (Leasat-4) was deployed two days later. All three achieved their planned geosynch ...
#17 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
- ... 9 rear 2 August 1978 07:57 23.66 Progress 3 10 August 1978 03:00 rear 21 August 1978 – ~11 Soyuz 31 27 august 1978 19:37 rear 7 September 1978 13:53 10.76 Soyuz 31 7 September 1978 14:21 front 2 November 1978 ...
#18 Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 ( / ˈ s p ʌ t n ɪ k , ˈ s p ʊ t n ɪ k / ; see § Etymology ) was the first artificial Earth satellite . [5] It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program . It sent a radio signal back to Earth for three weeks bef
- ... atmosphere, and broke apart at a height of 10 km (6.2 mi) after traveling 6,000 km (3,700 mi) . On 27 august , the TASS issued a statement on the successful launch of a long-distance multistage ICBM. The launc ...
#19 Salyut 7
Salyut 7 ( Russian : Салют-7 ; English: Salute 7 ) (a.k.a. DOS-6 , short for Durable Orbital Station [1] ) was a space station in low Earth orbit from April 1982 to February 1991. [1] It was first crewed in May 1982 with two crew via Soyuz T-5 , and last visited in June 1986, by Soyuz T-15 . [1] Var
- ... EP-2 Leonid Popov , Aleksandr Serebrov , Svetlana Savitskaya 19 August 1982 17:11:52 UTC Soyuz T-7 27 august 1982 15:04:16 UTC Soyuz T-5 7.91 Salyut 7 – EO-2 Vladimir Lyakhov , Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov ...
- ... ECRAFT AND CREWS (Launched crews. Spacecraft launch and landing dates listed.) Soyuz T-5 – 13 May – 27 august 1982 Anatoli Berezovoy Valentin Lebedev Soyuz T-6 – 24 June – 2 July 1982 – Intercosmos Flight Vlad ...
#20 Progress M-47
Progress M-47 ( Russian : Прогресс М-47 ), identified by NASA as Progress 10P , was a Progress spacecraft used to resupply the International Space Station . It was a Progress-M 11F615A55 spacecraft, with the serial number 247. [1] Progress M-47 Progress M-47 departing the ISS. Mission type ISS resup
- ... Docking with ISS Docking port Zvezda aft Docking date 4 February 2003, 14:49:04 UTC Undocking date 27 august 2003, 22:48:08 UTC Time docked 204 days Cargo Mass 2500 kg Progress ISS Resupply ← Progress M1-9 Pr ...
- ... 4 February 2003. [2] [3] It remained docked for almost 204 days before undocking at 22:48:08 UTC on 27 august 2003. [2] to make way for Progress M-48 [4] It was deorbited at 01:49 UTC the next day. [2] The spa ...