langs: 5 декабря [ru] / december 5 [en] / 5. dezember [de] / 5 décembre [fr] / 5 dicembre [it] / 5 de diciembre [es]
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Linda Maxine Godwin Ph.D. (born July 2, 1952) is an American scientist and retired NASA astronaut . [1] Godwin joined NASA in 1980 and became an astronaut in July 1986. She retired in 2010. During her career, Godwin completed four space flights and logged over 38 days in space. Godwin also served as
#2 Leroy Chiao
Leroy Chiao (born August 28, 1960) is an American chemical engineer , retired NASA astronaut , entrepreneur, motivational speaker , and engineering consultant. [1] [3] Chiao flew on three Space Shuttle flights, and was the commander of Expedition 10 , where he lived on board the International Space
#3 Alan Shepard
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut , naval aviator , test pilot , and businessman. In 1961, he became the second person and the first American to travel into space, and in 1971, he walked on the Moon . American astronaut (1923–1998), first Ameri
Daniel M. Tani (born February 1, 1961) is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut . He was born in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania , but considers Lombard, Illinois , to be his hometown. [1] American engineer and NASA astronaut Daniel M. Tani Tani in 2001 Born ( 1961-02-01 ) February 1, 1961 (age
Vanessa Audi Rhys O'Brien (born 2 December 1964) is a British and American mountaineer, sub-orbital spaceflight participant, explorer, author and former business executive. [2] On 4 August 2022, Vanessa became the first woman to complete the Explorers’ Extreme Trifecta – reaching extremes on land, s
#6 Mark Kelly
Mark Edward Kelly (born February 21, 1964) is an American politician, businessman, retired astronaut , and U.S. Navy captain serving as the junior United States senator from Arizona since December 2020. [3] A member of the Democratic Party , he was elected in the special election triggered by the de
Winston Elliott Scott (born August 6, 1950) is a retired United States Navy Captain and former NASA astronaut . He served as a mission specialist on STS-72 in 1996 and STS-87 in 1997 logged a total of 24 days, 14 hours and 34 minutes in space, including three spacewalks totaling 19 hours and 26 minu
Sultan bin Salman Al Saud ( Arabic : سلطان بن سلمان آل سعود ; Sulṭān bin Salmān Āl Suʿūd ; born 27 June 1956) is a Saudi prince and former Royal Saudi Air Force pilot who flew aboard the American STS-51-G Space Shuttle mission as a payload specialist . He is the first member of a royal family to fly
#9 Carl E. Walz
Carl Erwin Walz (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) (born 6 September 1955) is a retired NASA astronaut currently working for Orbital Sciences Corporation's Advanced Programs Group as vice president for Human Space Flight Operations. Walz was formerly assigned to the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NAS
#10 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
Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa ( Mongolian : Жүгдэрдэмидийн Гүррагчаа ; Russian : Жугдэрдэмидийн Гуррагча , [ˈʐuɡdʲɪrdʲɪmʲɪdʲɪjn ˈɡurəktɕə] , born 5 December 1947) is a Mongolian cosmonaut and military leader. He was the first Mongolian and second Asian to go into space. [1] [2] He also was Mongolia's De
#12 Norishige Kanai
Norishige Kanai ( 金井 宣茂 , Kanai Norishige , born 5 December 1976) is a Japanese doctor and JAXA astronaut. [1] Japanese doctor and JAXA astronaut Norishige Kanai Born ( 1976-12-05 ) December 5, 1976 (age 45) Tokyo , Japan Status Active Nationality Japanese Occupation Physician Space career JAXA As
#13 Bruce E. Melnick
Bruce Edward Melnick (born December 5, 1949) is a retired American astronaut and United States Coast Guard officer. Following retirement from NASA and the Coast Guard, he entered the aerospace industry. He served as a vice president with the Boeing Co.'s Integrated Defense Systems group, in charge o
#14 Steven Lindsey
Steven Wayne Lindsey (born August 24, 1960) is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and NASA astronaut . Lindsey served as Chief of the NASA Astronaut Office from September 2006 until October 2009. [2] American astronaut This article is about the American astronaut. For the Maine politician, see Stephen
#15 Daniel W. Bursch
Daniel Wheeler Bursch (born July 25, 1957 [2] ) is a former NASA astronaut , and Captain of the United States Navy . He had four spaceflights , the first three of which were Space Shuttle missions lasting 10 to 11 days each. His fourth and final spaceflight was a long-duration stay aboard the Intern
#16 Kevin R. Kregel
Kevin Richard Kregel (born September 16, 1956) is an American former astronaut, and former member of the Space Launch Initiative Project at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . Kevin R. Kregel Born Kevin Richard Kregel ( 1956-09-16 ) September 16, 1956 (age 65) Amityville, New York , U.S. Status R
#17 Yury Onufriyenko
Col. Yuri Ivanovich Onufrienko ( Russian : Юрий Иванович Онуфриенко , Ukrainian : Юрій Іванович Онуфрієнко ; born 6 February 1961) is a retired Russian cosmonaut . He is a veteran of two extended spaceflights, aboard the space station Mir in 1996 and aboard the International Space Station in 2001–20
#18 Leonid Kadeniuk
Leonid Kostyantynovych Kadenyuk ( Ukrainian : Леонід Костянтинович Каденюк , 28 January 1951 – 31 January 2018) [1] was the first astronaut of independent Ukraine who flew into outer space. He flew on NASA 's Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as part of the international mission STS-87 . [2] Kadenyuk
#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
#2 Museum of Transport and Technology
The Museum of Transport and Technology ( MOTAT ) is a science and technology museum located in Western Springs , Auckland , New Zealand. It is located close to the Western Springs Stadium , Auckland Zoo and the Western Springs Park . The museum has large collections of civilian and military aircraft
#3 National Museum of the United States Air Force
The National Museum of the United States Air Force (formerly the United States Air Force Museum ) is the official museum of the United States Air Force located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base , 6 miles (9.7 km) northeast of Dayton, Ohio . [3] The NMUSAF is the oldest and largest military aviati
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
SpaceX CRS-19 , also known as SpX-19 , was a Commercial Resupply Service mission to the International Space Station . [6] The mission is contracted by NASA and was flown by SpaceX on a Falcon 9 rocket. 2019 American resupply spaceflight to the ISS SpaceX CRS-19 Dragon C106.3 approaches the ISS Missi
UNITE ( Undergraduate Nano Ionospheric Temperature Explorer ) was a CubeSat nanosatellite developed by the University of Southern Indiana . The project was funded by NASA 's Undergraduate Student Instrument Project and primarily designed and built by students. It was launched into space on 5 Decembe
#3 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
#4 STS-87
STS-87 was a Space Shuttle mission launched from Launch Complex 39B of the Kennedy Space Center on 19 November 1997. It was the 88th flight of the Space Shuttle and the 24th flight of Columbia . The mission goals were to conduct experiments using the United States Microgravity Payload (USMP-4), cond
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
#6 TDRS-10
TDRS-10 , known before launch as TDRS-J , is an American communications satellite which is operated by NASA as part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System . It was constructed by the Boeing Satellite Development Center , formerly Hughes Space and Communications , and is based on the BSS-601
The Raffaello MPLM , also known as MPLM-2 , was one of three Multi-Purpose Logistics Modules which were operated by NASA to transfer supplies and equipment to and from the International Space Station . Raffaello was used for four of twelve MPLM flights to the space station, with Leonardo being used
#8 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
#9 Alouette 2
Alouette 2 was a Canadian research satellite launched at 04:48 UTC on November 29, 1965, by a Thor Agena rocket with Explorer 31 from the Western test range at Vandenberg AFB in California . It was (like its predecessor Alouette 1 , and Explorer 31 ) designed to explore the ionosphere . Defunct Cana
#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 TechEdSat
Technology Education Satellite ( TechEdSat ) is a successful nano-sat flight series conducted from the NASA Ames Research Center in collaboration with numerous universities (San Jose State University, University of Idaho, University of California, University of Minnesota, Smith College). While one o
#12 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
#13 EROS A
The Earth Remote Observation System-A ( EROS-A or EROS-A1 ) was part of the EROS family of Israeli commercial Earth observation satellites , designed and manufactured by Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI). [6] This was the first satellite in the series. The satellite was owned and operated by ImageSat
#14 Göktürk-1
Göktürk-1 (also Göktürk-1A ) is a high resolution earth observation satellite (greater than 50 cm) designed and developed for the Turkish Ministry of National Defence by the Italian space service company Telespazio with technological input from Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAŞ) and ASELSAN of T
#15 Göktürk-1
Göktürk-1 (also Göktürk-1A ) is a high resolution earth observation satellite (greater than 50 cm) designed and developed for the Turkish Ministry of National Defence by the Italian space service company Telespazio with technological input from Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAŞ) and ASELSAN of T
Exploration Flight Test-1 or EFT-1 (previously known as Orion Flight Test 1 or OFT-1 ) was the first test flight of the crew module portion of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle . Without a crew, it was launched on December 5, 2014, at 12:05 UTC (7:05 am EST ), by a Delta IV Heavy rocket from Sp
#17 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,
#18 Cygnus OA-8E
OA-8E was the ninth flight of the Orbital ATK uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its eighth flight to the International Space Station (ISS) under the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-1) contract with NASA . The mission launched on 12 November 2017 at 12:19:51 UTC . Orbital and NASA jointly dev
#19 Voyager 1
Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System and interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere . Launched 16 days after its twin Voyager 2 , Voyager 1 has been operating for 45 years and 1 month as of October 5
The Unity connecting module, also known as Node 1 , is the first U.S. -built component of the International Space Station (ISS). It connects the Russian and United States segments of the station, and is where crew eat meals together. American module of the International Space Station Unity Unity as