langs: 4 декабря [ru] / december 4 [en] / 4. dezember [de] / 4 décembre [fr] / 4 dicembre [it] / 4 de diciembre [es]
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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov ( Russian : Владимир Александрович Шаталов ; December 8, 1927 – June 15, 2021) [2] was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut who flew three space missions of the Soyuz programme : Soyuz 4 , Soyuz 8 , and Soyuz 10 . [1] Soviet cosmonaut (1927–2021) Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sh
Ronald "Ron" Michael Sega (also Ronald Šega ) (Ph.D.) (born December 4, 1952) is professor of systems engineering and Vice President for Energy and the Environment at the Colorado State University Research Foundation, a non-profit advocacy organization supporting CSU. [1] He is also the Vice Preside
James Hansen Newman , Ph.D. (born October 16, 1956) is an American physicist and a former NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions. American astronaut This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification . ( May 2022 ) James Hansen Newman Born ( 1956-10-16 ) Oc
#4 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
Thomas Patten Stafford (born September 17, 1930) is an American former Air Force officer , test pilot , and NASA astronaut , and one of 24 people who flew to the Moon . He also served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1969 to 1971. United States astronaut (born 1930) Thomas P. Stafford Stafford
Roberta Lynn Bondar CC OOnt FRCPC FRSC ( / ˈ b ɒ n d ər / ; born December 4, 1945) is a Canadian astronaut, neurologist and consultant. She is Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space. After more than a decade as head of an international space medicine research team collabo
Hayley Arceneaux (born December 4, 1991) is a St. Jude Children's Research Hospital physician assistant and commercial astronaut . She joined billionaire Jared Isaacman on SpaceX's first private spaceflight Inspiration4 , which launched on September 16, 2021, 00:02:56 UTC, and successfully water-lan
Walter Marty Schirra Jr. ( / ʃ ɜːr ˈ ɑː / , March 12, 1923 – May 3, 2007) was an American naval aviator , test pilot , and NASA astronaut . In 1959, he became one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury , which was the United States ' first effort to put human beings into space
Jerry Lynn Ross (born January 20, 1948, Crown Point, Indiana ) is a retired United States Air Force officer, engineer and a former NASA astronaut . He is a veteran of seven Space Shuttle missions, making him the joint record holder for most spaceflights (a record he shares with Franklin Chang-Diaz )
#10 Robert D. Cabana
Robert Donald Cabana (born January 23, 1949) is the Associate Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a NASA astronaut (currently as a non-flight eligible management astronaut ), and a veteran of four Space Shuttle flights. [1] [2] He served as Chief of the Astrona
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova ( Russian : Валентина Владимировна Терешкова , IPA: [vɐlʲɪnʲˈtʲinə vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvnə tʲɪrʲɪʂˈkovə] ( listen ) ; born 6 March 1937) is an engineer , member of the Russian State Duma , and former Soviet cosmonaut . She is known for being the first and youngest woman i
Nancy Jane Currie-Gregg (née Decker ; former married names Sherlock and Currie ; [1] [2] born December 29, 1958) is an American engineer , United States Army officer and a NASA astronaut . [3] Currie-Gregg has served in the United States Army for over 22 years and holds the rank of colonel. With NAS
#13 Jim Lovell
James Arthur Lovell Jr. ( / ˈ l ʌ v əl / ; born March 25, 1928) is an American retired astronaut , naval aviator , test pilot and mechanical engineer. In 1968, as command module pilot of Apollo 8 , he became, with Frank Borman and William Anders , one of the first three astronauts to fly to and orbi
#14 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
The USS Hornet Museum is a museum ship , located on the southernmost pier of the former Naval Air Station Alameda in Alameda, California , US. United States historic place USS Hornet (CVS-12) (Aircraft Carrier) U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. National Historic Landmark California Hist
The Finnish Aviation Museum ( Finnish : Suomen ilmailumuseo ) is a museum specialising in aircraft, located near Helsinki Airport in Veromies , Vantaa , Finland . Aviation museum in Vantaa, Finland Finnish Aviation Museum Suomen Ilmailumuseo Main building of the Finnish Aviation Museum Location with
The Quonset Air Museum was an aerospace museum located at Quonset Point Air National Guard Station in North Kingstown, Rhode Island . Aviation museum in North Kingstown, Rhode Island Quonset Air Museum Location within Rhode Island Established 1992 Dissolved 2016 Location North Kingstown, Rhode Islan
#4 Colonel Jaime Meregalli Aeronautical Museum
The Colonel Jaime Meregalli Aeronautical Museum in an aviation museum located in Ciudad de la Costa, Canelones . Aviation museum in Ciudad de la Costa, Canelones Colonel Jaime Meregalli Aeronautical Museum Museo Aeronáutico Cnel. (Av.) Jaime Meregalli Location within Uruguay Former name National Avi
#5 Wright Brothers National Memorial
Wright Brothers National Memorial , located in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina , commemorates the first successful, sustained, powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine . From 1900 to 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright came here from Dayton, Ohio , based on information from the U.S. Weather Bureau
#1 Luna 2
Luna 2 ( Russian : Луна 2 ), originally named the Second Soviet Cosmic Rocket and nicknamed Lunik 2 in contemporaneous media, was the sixth of the Soviet Union 's Luna programme spacecraft launched to the Moon , E-1 No.7 . It was the first spacecraft to reach the surface of the Moon , and the first
#2 Mariner 5
Mariner 5 ( Mariner Venus 1967 ) was a spacecraft of the Mariner program that carried a complement of experiments to probe Venus ' atmosphere by radio occultation, measure the hydrogen Lyman-alpha (hard ultraviolet) spectrum, and sample the solar particles and magnetic field fluctuations above the p
#3 STS-44
STS-44 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission using Atlantis that launched on 24 November 1991. It was a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) space mission. 1991 American crewed spaceflight to deploy DSP-16 STS-44 Atlantis deploys a Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite. Names Space Transportation System -4
#4 STS-108
STS-108 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour . Its primary objective was to deliver supplies to and help maintain the ISS. 2001 American crewed spaceflight to the ISS STS-108 Godwin on Endeavour ' s Canadarm during an EVA Names Space T
SpaceX CRS-13 , also known as SpX-13 , was a Commercial Resupply Service mission to the International Space Station launched on 15 December 2017. [2] The mission was contracted by NASA and is flown by SpaceX . It was the second mission to successfully reuse a Dragon capsule, previously flown on CRS-
AMSAT-OSCAR 51 or AO-51 is the in-orbit name designation of a now defunct (following battery failure) LEO amateur radio satellite of the OSCAR series; formerly known as ECHO , built by AMSAT . It was launched on June 29, 2004 from Baikonur Cosmodrome , Kazakhstan on a Dnepr launch vehicle. It is in
#7 Voyager 2
Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, to study the outer planets and interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere . As a part of the Voyager program , it was launched 16 days before its twin, Voyager 1 , on a trajectory that took longer to reach gas giants Jupiter and Sa
Luna E-1 No.3 , [1] sometimes identified by NASA as Luna 1958C , [2] was a Soviet spacecraft which was lost in a launch failure in 1958. It was a 361-kilogram (796 lb) Luna E-1 spacecraft, the third of four to be launched, [3] all of which were involved in launch failures. [4] It was intended to i
AGILE ( Astro‐Rivelatore Gamma a Immagini Leggero ) is an X-ray and gamma ray astronomical satellite of the Italian Space Agency (ASI). X-ray and gamma ray astronomical satellite AGILE A model of the satellite Mission type Gamma-ray astronomy Operator ASI COSPAR ID 2007-013A SATCAT no. 31135 Website
Sojourner is a robotic Mars rover that landed in the Ares Vallis channel in the Chryse Planitia region of the Oxia Palus quadrangle on July 4, 1997. Sojourner was operational on Mars for 92 sols (95 Earth days). It was the first wheeled vehicle to rove on a planet other than Earth and formed part of
#11 OV3-2
Orbiting Vehicle 3-2 (also known as OV3-2 [3] ), launched 28 October 1966, was the fourth satellite to be launched in the OV3 series of the United States Air Force's Orbiting Vehicle program. The satellite measured charged particles in orbit, mapping irregularities in the ionosphere , particularly t
#12 Soyuz T-3
Soyuz T-3 was a Soviet spaceflight, launched on 27 November 1980 to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the first Soyuz spacecraft to carry three cosmonauts following the fatal Soyuz 11 disaster in 1971. [1] 1980 Soviet crewed spaceflight to Salyut 6 Soyuz T-3 COSPAR ID 1980-094A SATCAT no. 12077 Mis
#13 OV3-1
Orbiting Vehicle 3-1 (also known as OV3-1 and OPS 1527 [3] ), launched 22 April 1966, was the first satellite in the OV3 series of the United States Air Force's Orbiting Vehicle program. The satellite measured radiation above the Earth, returning useful data for over a year. It is still in orbit as
#14 OV3-4
Orbiting Vehicle 3-4 (also known as OV3-4 , PHASR , [1] and OPS 1427 [3] ), launched 10 June 1966, was the second satellite to be launched in the OV3 series of the United States Air Force's Orbiting Vehicle program. The satellite measured radiation above the Earth, helping to determine the hazard po
#15 Multi-Functional Transport Satellite
Multifunctional Transport Satellites ( MTSAT ) were a series of weather and aviation control satellites. They are replaced by Himawari 8 on 7 July 2015. They were geostationary satellites owned and operated by the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) and the Japan
#16 STS-88
STS-88 was the first Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). It was flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour , and took the first American module, the Unity node , to the station. [2] First Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station STS-88 Endeavour ' s Canadarm positio
#17 Gemini 7
Gemini 7 (officially Gemini VII ) [5] was a 1965 crewed spaceflight in NASA 's Gemini program . It was the fourth crewed Gemini flight, the twelfth crewed American spaceflight, and the twenty-first crewed spaceflight including Soviet flights and X-15 flights above the Kármán line . The crew of Frank
#18 Mariner 4
Mariner 4 (together with Mariner 3 known as Mariner-Mars 1964 ) was the fourth in a series of spacecraft intended for planetary exploration in a flyby mode. It was designed to conduct closeup scientific observations of Mars and to transmit these observations to Earth . Launched on November 28, 1964,
The Pioneer Venus project was part of the Pioneer program consisting of two spacecraft, the Pioneer Venus Orbiter and the Pioneer Venus Multiprobe , launched to Venus in 1978. The program was managed by NASA 's Ames Research Center . Two spacecraft send to Venus in 1978 This article needs additional
The Pioneer Venus Orbiter , also known as Pioneer Venus 1 or Pioneer 12 , was a mission to Venus conducted by the United States as part of the Pioneer Venus project . Launched in May 1978 atop an Atlas-Centaur rocket, the spacecraft was inserted into an elliptical orbit around Venus on December 4, 1