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Guy Laliberté , OC CQ (born 2 September 1959) is a Canadian billionaire businessman, and poker player. Along with Gilles Ste-Croix , he is the co-founder of Cirque du Soleil . In January 2018, Laliberté was ranked by Forbes as the 11th wealthiest Canadian. [1] Canadian businessman, investor, poker p
Ronald Ellwin Evans Jr. (November 10, 1933 – April 7, 1990) was an American electrical engineer , aeronautical engineer , officer and aviator in the United States Navy , and NASA astronaut . As Command Module Pilot on Apollo 17 he was one of the 24 astronauts to have flown to the Moon, and one of
James Alton McDivitt (born June 10, 1929) is an American former test pilot , United States Air Force (USAF) pilot, aeronautical engineer , and NASA astronaut who flew in the Gemini and Apollo programs . He joined the USAF in 1951 and flew 145 combat missions in the Korean War . In 1959, after gradua
Chris Austin Hadfield OC OOnt MSC CD (born August 29, 1959) is a Canadian retired astronaut , engineer, fighter pilot , and musician. The first Canadian to perform extravehicular activity in outer space , he has flown two Space Shuttle missions and also served as commander of the International Space
#5 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
#6 Tim Peake
Major Timothy Nigel “Tim” Peake CMG (born 7 April 1972) is a British Army Air Corps officer, European Space Agency astronaut [3] and a former International Space Station (ISS) crew member. British Army Air Corps officer and astronaut Tim Peake CMG HonFIET Official NASA portrait photograph, taken in
#7 Mae Jemison
Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer , physician , and former NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour . Jemison joined NASA's astronaut corps in 1987 and was selected
Progress M-26 ( Russian : Прогресс M-26 ) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in February 1995 to resupply the Mir space station. Russian cargo spacecraft Progress M-26 A Progress-M spacecraft Mission type Mir resupply COSPAR ID 1995-005A SATCAT no. 23477 [1] Spacecr
Vanguard TV-5 , also called Vanguard Test Vehicle-Five , was a failed flight of the American Vanguard rocket following the successful launch of Vanguard 1 on Vanguard TV-4. Vanguard TV-5 launched on 29 April 1958 at 02:53:00 GMT , from Launch Complex 18A at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station . The
#3 STS-122
STS-122 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS), flown by the Space Shuttle Atlantis . STS-122 marked the 24th shuttle mission to the ISS, and the 121st Space Shuttle flight overall. [4] 2008 American crewed spaceflight to the ISS STS-122 Canadarm2 takes Columbus fr
#4 Kosmos 396
Kosmos 396 ( Russian : Космос 396 meaning Cosmos 396 ) was an test flight of the Zenit-4M military surveillance satellite. The Zenit satellite's purpose was high resolution photographic reconnaissance. This particular test flight returned a capsule containing exposed film. [1] Kosmos 396 Mission typ
#5 Salyut 4
Salyut 4 (DOS 4) ( Russian : Салют-4 ; English translation: Salute 4 ) was a Salyut space station launched on December 26, 1974 into an orbit with an apogee of 355 km, a perigee of 343 km and an orbital inclination of 51.6 degrees. It was essentially a copy of the DOS 3 (or Kosmos 557) , and unl
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
#7 International Space Station
The International Space Station ( ISS ) is the largest modular space station currently in low Earth orbit . It is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe), and CSA (Canada). [7] [8] The own
#8 IRVINE02
IRVINE02 [1] is an educational 1U CubeSat mission that gives high school students the experience of building, testing, and controlling a nano-satellite to develop interest and talent in the science and engineering fields. The mission features the second orbital ion electrospray thruster developed by
#9 STS-130
STS-130 ( ISS assembly flight 20A ) [7] was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Space Shuttle Endeavour 's primary payloads were the Tranquility module and the Cupola , a robotic control station with six windows around its sides and another in the center, providing
#10 STS-82
STS-82 was the 22nd flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery and the 82nd mission of the Space Shuttle program . It was NASA's second mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope , during which Discovery's crew repaired and upgraded the telescope's scientific instruments, increasing its research capab
Hitomi ( Japanese : ひとみ ) , also known as ASTRO-H and New X-ray Telescope ( NeXT ), was an X-ray astronomy satellite commissioned by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ( JAXA ) for studying extremely energetic processes in the Universe . The space observatory was designed to extend the research
#12 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
#13 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
Puli Space Technologies (named after the puli , a small Hungarian dog breed ) is a Hungarian company established by individuals in June 2010 in order to take part in Google Lunar X Prize Challenge and other competitions, and further to facilitate development of space industry in Hungary , to promote
#15 OV1-10
Orbiting Vehicle 1-10 (also known as OV1-10 ), launched 11 December 1966 along with OV1-9 , was the tenth (seventh successful) satellite in the OV1 series of the United States Air Force's Orbiting Vehicle program. Designed to observe atmospheric airglow , X-ray and cosmic radiation , OV1-10 returned
#16 Sentinel-3A
Sentinel-3A is a European Space Agency Earth observation satellite dedicated to oceanography which launched on 16 February 2016. [5] It was built as a part of the Copernicus Programme , and is the first of four planned Sentinel-3 satellites. Its sister satellite, Sentinel-3B , launched on 25 April 2
#17 Progress MS-19
Progress MS-19 ( Russian : Прогресс МC-19 ), Russian production No.449, identified by NASA as Progress 80P , is a Progress spaceflight launched by Roscosmos to resupply the International Space Station (ISS). This is the 172nd flight of a Progress spacecraft. 2022 Russian resupply spaceflight to the
#18 Soyuz T-10
Soyuz T-10 was the fifth expedition to the Salyut 7 space station . It entered a darkened and empty station because of the loss of Soyuz T-10a . It was visited by the sixth and seventh expeditions. During the course of the cosmonauts stay, three extravehicular activities took place to repair a fuel
#19 Cassini–Huygens
Cassini–Huygens ( / k ə ˈ s iː n i ˈ h ɔɪ ɡ ən z / kə- SEE -nee HOY -gənz ), commonly called Cassini , was a space-research mission by NASA , the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and n
#20 NEE-01 Pegaso
NEE-01 Pegaso is an Ecuadorian technology demonstration satellite, and Ecuador's first satellite launched to space. Built by the Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency (EXA), it is a nanosatellite of the single-unit CubeSat class. [5] The spacecraft's instruments include a dual visible and infrared camera