langs: 20 декабря [ru] / december 20 [en] / 20. dezember [de] / 20 décembre [fr] / 20 dicembre [it] / 20 de diciembre [es]
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Lodewijk van den Berg ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈloːdəʋɛik fɑn dəm ˈbɛr(ə)x] ; [lower-alpha 1] born March 24, 1932) is a Dutch-American chemical engineer , specializing in crystal growth , who flew on a 1985 Space Shuttle Challenger mission as a Payload Specialist . Chemical engineer and astronaut (bo
#2 Lance Bass
James Lance Bass [3] ( / b æ s / ; born May 4, 1979) [4] is an American singer, dancer, actor, film, and television producer. He grew up in Mississippi and rose to fame as the bass singer for the American pop boy band NSYNC . NSYNC's success led Bass to work in film and television. He starred in the
David Saint-Jacques OQ FRCGS ( in Quebec : [davɪd sẽɪ̯̃nʒã(ŋ)k̚] , French pronunciation: [david sɛ̃ʒak] ; born January 6, 1970) [2] is a Canadian astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). He is also an astrophysicist , engineer , and a physician . Canadian engineer, astrophysicist, physici
Frank, Viscount De Winne (born 25 April 1961, in Ledeberg , Belgium) is a Belgian Air Component officer and an ESA astronaut . He is Belgium's second person in space (after Dirk Frimout ). He was the first ESA astronaut to command a space mission when he served as commander of ISS Expedition 21 . ES
#5 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
#6 Frank Borman
Frank Frederick Borman II (born March 14, 1928) is a retired United States Air Force (USAF) colonel , aeronautical engineer , test pilot , businessman, and NASA astronaut . He was the commander of Apollo 8 , the first mission to fly around the Moon, and together with crewmates Jim Lovell and William
Alexander Alexanderovich Misurkin ( Russian : Aлександр Aлександрович Мисуркин ) (born 23 September 1977), a major in the Russian Air Force , is a Russian cosmonaut , selected in 2006. He flew aboard Soyuz TMA-08M on 28 March 2013 as his first space mission, and launched on Soyuz MS-06 as his second
#8 Curtis Brown
Curtis Lee "Curt" Brown Jr. (born March 11, 1956) is a former NASA astronaut and retired United States Air Force colonel . [1] American astronaut For other people named Curtis Brown, see Curtis Brown (disambiguation) . Curtis L. Brown Jr. Born ( 1956-03-11 ) March 11, 1956 (age 66) Elizabethtown,
Viktor Petrovich Savinykh was born in Berezkiny , Kirov Oblast, Russian SFSR on 7 March 1940. Married with one child. Selected as a cosmonaut on 1 December 1978. Retired on 9 February 1989. This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification . ( February 2009 ) Viktor Petro
#10 Space tourism
Space tourism is human space travel for recreational purposes. [1] There are several different types of space tourism, including orbital, suborbital and lunar space tourism. Space travel for recreational purposes This article is about paying space travellers. For other commercial spacefarers, see Co
#11 Timothy Creamer
Timothy "TJ" Creamer (born November 15, 1959) is a NASA flight director, retired astronaut and a colonel in the United States Army . Creamer was born in Fort Huachuca , Arizona , but considers Upper Marlboro, Maryland , to be his hometown. He is married to the former Margaret E. Hammer. They have tw
#12 Gennady Manakov
Gennady Mikhailovich Manakov ( Russian : Геннадий Михайлович Манаков ; 1 June 1950 – 26 September 2019) [3] was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut who commanded two Soyuz flights to the Mir space station. Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (1950–2019) In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming convention
#13 Georgy Grechko
Georgy Mikhaylovich Grechko ( Russian : Георгий Михайлович Гречко ; 25 May 1931 – 8 April 2017) was a Soviet cosmonaut . He flew to space on three missions, each bound for rendezvous with a different Salyut space station. [1] Soyuz 17 was the first crewed vehicle to visit Salyut 4 , Soyuz 26 was the
#14 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
#15 Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin [lower-alpha 1] (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space . Travelling in the Vostok 1 capsule, Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. By achieving this major milestone in the Space
#16 Anousheh Ansari
Anousheh Ansari ( Persian : انوشه انصاری ; née Raissyan ; [2] born September 12, 1966) is an Iranian American engineer and co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems. Her previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI). The Ansari family i
Patrick Graham Forrester (born March 31, 1957) is a NASA astronaut , engineer, and former Chief of the Astronaut Office . He is a retired United States Army officer and Army aviator. At the time of his retirement from the U.S. Army, Forrester had achieved the rank of colonel . He is married and has
#18 Anne McClain
Anne Charlotte McClain (born June 7, 1979) is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army , engineer and a NASA astronaut. [2] Her call sign , "Annimal", dates back to her bruising rugby days; [3] she also uses the call sign in her Twitter handle, AstroAnnimal. She was a Flight Engineer for Expedition 58
#19 Yuri Gidzenko
Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko ( Russian: Юрий Павлович Гидзенко ; born March 26, 1962) is a Russian cosmonaut . [1] He was a test cosmonaut of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (TsPK). Gidzenko has flown into space three times and has lived on board the Mir and the International Space Station. He
#20 Oleg Kononenko
Oleg Dmitriyevich Kononenko ( Russian : Олег Дмитриевич Кононенко ; Turkmen : Oleg Dmitriýewiç Kononenko ; born 21 June 1964 in Turkmenistan ) is a Russian cosmonaut from the Turkmen SSR. [1] He has flown to the International Space Station four times, as a flight engineer for Expedition 17 aboard So
Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keāhole [3] ( IATA : KOA , ICAO : PHKO , FAA LID : KOA ) is the busiest airport on the Island of Hawai ʻ i . It is located in Kalaoa CDP , Hawai ʻ i County , Hawai ʻ i , United States, [4] near the town of Kailua-Kona . The airport serves leeward (wester
#1 ACRIMSAT
The Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor Satellite , or ACRIMSAT was a satellite carrying the ACRIM-3 ( Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor 3 ) instrument. It was one of the 21 observational components of NASA 's Earth Observing System program. The instrument followed upon the ACRIM-1
Progress MS-13 ( Russian : Прогресс МC-13 ), Russian production No. 443, identified by NASA as Progress 74P , was a Progress spaceflight operated by Roscosmos to resupply the International Space Station . [2] This was the 165th flight of a Progress spacecraft. 2019 Russian resupply spaceflight to th
Poisk ( Russian : Поиск , lit. ' Search ' ), also known as the Mini-Research Module 2 ( MRM 2 ), Малый исследовательский модуль 2 , or МИМ 2 , is a docking module of the International Space Station . Its original name was Docking Module 2 ( Stykovochniy Otsek 2 , SO-2 ), as it is almost identical
The Boeing Starliner Orbital Flight Test (also known as Boe-OFT ) was the first orbital mission of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, conducted by Boeing as part of NASA 's Commercial Crew Program . The mission was planned to be an eight-day test flight of the spacecraft, involving a rendezvous and d
#5 Soyuz TMA-17
Soyuz TMA-17 was a human spaceflight mission to the International Space Station (ISS). TMA-17 crew members participated in ISS Expedition 22 and Expedition 23 . The mission ended when the Soyuz TMA-17 capsule landed on 2 June 2010. 2009 Russian crewed spaceflight to the ISS Soyuz TMA-17 Launch of TM
#6 Hot Bird 13C
Hot Bird 13C , formerly Hot Bird 9 , is a communications satellite operated by Eutelsat , launched 20 December 2008 aboard an Ariane 5ECA carrier rocket along with the Eutelsat W2M spacecraft. [1] It was built by EADS Astrium , based on a Eurostar E3000 satellite bus . It was positioned in geosynchr
#7 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
#8 USA-199
USA-199 , also known as GPS IIR-18(M) , GPS IIRM-5 and GPS SVN-57 , is an American navigation satellite which forms part of the Global Positioning System . It was the fifth of eight Block IIRM satellites to be launched, and the eighteenth of twenty one Block IIR satellites overall. It was built by L
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
#10 Apollo 8
Apollo 8 (December 21–27, 1968) was the first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon . The crew orbited the Moon ten times without landing, and then departed safely back to Earth . [1] [2] [3] These three astronauts — Frank Borman , James Lovell
#11 AMC-8
AMC-8 , also known as Aurora III , previously GE-8 , is a C-band satellite located at 139° West, covering the United States , Canada and the Caribbean . It is owned and operated by SES World Skies , [1] formerly SES Americom and before that GE Americom . The satellite provides critical telecommunica
#12 Cygnus Orb-1
Orbital-1 , [6] [7] also known as Orb-1 , [7] [8] [9] was the second flight of the Orbital Sciences Cygnus cargo spacecraft , its second flight to the International Space Station (ISS) and the third launch of the company's Antares launch vehicle . The mission launched on 9 January 2014 at 18:07:05 U
#13 Progress M-2
Progress M-2 ( Russian : Прогресс М-2 ), was a Soviet uncrewed cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1989 to resupply the Mir space station. [2] The nineteenth of sixty four Progress spacecraft to visit Mir, it used the Progress-M 11F615A55 configuration, and had the serial number 202. [3] It carri
#14 Astra 2D
Astra 2D is one of the Astra communications satellites owned and operated by Société Européenne des Satellites (SES), and located at 28.2° East in the geostationary orbit until June 2015. It is a Hughes Space and Communications HS-376HP satellite bus , and was launched from the Centre Spatial Guyana
#15 Discoverer 19
Discoverer 19 , also known as RM-1 , was an American satellite which was launched in 1960. It was a technology demonstration spacecraft, based on an Agena-B . [1] Reconnaissance satellite Discoverer 19 Mission type Technology Operator US Air Force / ARPA Harvard designation 1960 Tau 1 COSPAR ID 1960
#16 Progress M-37
Progress M-37 ( Russian : Прогресс M-37 ) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in December 1997 to resupply the Mir space station. Russian cargo spacecraft Progress M-37 A Progress-M spacecraft Mission type Mir resupply COSPAR ID 1997-081A SATCAT no. 25102 [1] Spacecr
#17 ETRSS-1
ETRSS-1 is the first satellite launched by Ethiopia. It is an Earth Observation Satellite. [1] After launch the Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Institute spent several months calibrating and testing it. Photos were released in February 2020. [2] Ethiopian satellite Ethiopian Remote Sensing Sa
#18 Túpac Katari 1
Túpac Katari 1 or TKSat-1 is a telecommunications satellite that the government of Bolivia outsourced to People's Republic of China (PRC) to serve telecommunications in Bolivia, such as mobile , television and Internet use. [1] Telecommunication satellite It was launched into orbit on 20 December 20
#19 Soyuz MS-20
Soyuz MS-20 was a Russian Soyuz spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS) launched on 8 December 2021. [1] Unlike previous Soyuz flights to the ISS, Soyuz MS-20 did not deliver any crew members for an ISS Expedition or serve as a lifeboat for any crew members on board the station. Instead
#20 Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite
Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite ( SWAS , also Explorer 74 and SMEX-3 ) is a NASA submillimetre astronomy satellite, and is the fourth spacecraft in the Small Explorer program (SMEX). It was launched on 6 December 1998, at 00:57:54 UTC , from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Pegasus XL launc