langs: 26 февраля [ru] / february 26 [en] / 26. februar [de] / 26 février [fr] / 26 febbraio [it] / 26 de febrero [es]
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#1 John Glenn
John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American Marine Corps aviator , engineer , astronaut , businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space, and the first American to orbit the Earth , circling it three times in 1962. Following his retirement from NASA
#2 Susan Helms
Susan Jane Helms (born February 26, 1958) is a retired United States Air Force lieutenant general and NASA astronaut . She was the commander, 14th Air Force (Air Forces Strategic); and commander, Joint Functional Component Command for Space at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California . [1] Lieutenant
Major General Anatoly Vasilyevich Filipchenko [lower-alpha 1] (26 February 1928 – 7 August 2022) was a Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent. He flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 16 missions. Soviet cosmonaut (1928–2022) Anatoly Filipchenko Анатолій Філіпченко ( Ukrainian ) Анато́лий Фили́пченко ( R
Scott Joseph Kelly (born February 21, 1964) is an American engineer , retired astronaut , and naval aviator . A veteran of four space flights, Kelly commanded the International Space Station (ISS) on Expeditions 26 , 45 , and 46 . American engineer, retired astronaut, and retired U.S. Navy captain F
#5 Curt Michel
Frank Curtis "Curt" Michel (June 5, 1934 – February 26, 2015) was an American astrophysicist ; a professor of astrophysics at Rice University in Houston, Texas; a United States Air Force pilot ; and a NASA astronaut . American astronaut (1934–2015) Curt Michel Michel ( c. mid to late 1960s ) Born
Andrey Valerievich Fediaev ( Russian Cyrillic : Андрей Валерьевич Федяев; born February 26, 1981) is a Russian cosmonaut . Russian cosmonaut Andrey Valerievich Fediaev Born ( 1981-02-26 ) 26 February 1981 (age 41) Serov , Sverdlovsk Oblast , RSFSR Status Active Nationality Russian Occupation Test
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
Aleksandr "Sasha" Yuriyevich Kaleri ( Russian : Александр Юрьевич Калери ; born in Jūrmala , Latvia on 13 May 1956) is a Russian cosmonaut and veteran of extended stays on the Mir Space Station and the International Space Station (ISS). Kaleri has most recently been in space aboard the ISS serving a
#9 Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov
Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov ( Russian : Владимир Георгиевич Титов ; born 1 January 1947 in Sretensk , Zabaykalsky Krai , Russia) is a retired Russian Air Force Colonel and former cosmonaut . He has participated in four spaceflight missions. The catastrophic explosion of a Soyuz rocket in 1983 led to
#1 RAF Montrose
Royal Air Force Montrose or more simply RAF Montrose is a former Royal Air Force station in Forfarshire (now more commonly called Angus ) in Scotland . It became the first operational military aerodrome to be established in the United Kingdom on 26 February 1913. [2] Military museum in Angus, Scotla
The National Space Centre is a museum and educational resource covering the fields of space science and astronomy , along with a space research programme in partnership with the University of Leicester. It is located on the north side of the city in Belgrave, Leicester , England, next to the River S
#1 MDS-1
Mission Demonstration Satellite 1 ( MDS-1 ) or Tsubasa (COSPAR 2002-003A, SATCAT 27367) was a Japanese technology test mission . It was launched by the second H-2A on February 4, 2002 from the Tanegashima Space Center . After the launch, MDS-1 was renamed Tsubasa, meaning wings in Japanese . [1] Tsu
#2 Kosmos 1922
Kosmos 1922 ( Russian : Космос 1922 meaning Cosmos 1922 ) is a Soviet US-K missile early warning satellite which was launched in 1988 as part of the Soviet military's Oko programme. The satellite is designed to identify missile launches using optical telescopes and infrared sensors . [2] Kosmos 1922
#3 Kosmos 122
Kosmos 122 ( Russian : Космос 122 meaning Cosmos 122 ), launched on 25 June 1966, Meteor No.5L , and was one of eleven weather satellites put into orbit between 1964 and 1969. Kosmos 122 Mission type Weather COSPAR ID 1966-057A SATCAT no. 02254 Mission duration 4 months Spacecraft properties Spacecr
#4 Intelsat 15
Intelsat 15 , also known as IS-15 , is a communications satellite owned by Intelsat . Intelsat 15 was built by Orbital Sciences Corporation , on a Star-2.4 . [2] It is located at 85° E longitude on the geostationary orbit . It was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome to a geosynchronous transfer orbi
#5 STS-133
STS-133 ( ISS assembly flight ULF5 ) [6] was the 133rd mission in NASA 's Space Shuttle program ; during the mission, Space Shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station . It was Discovery ' s 39th and final mission. The mission launched on 24 February 2011, and landed on 9 March 201
#6 GOES 7
GOES-7 , known as GOES-H before becoming operational, is an American satellite . It was originally built as a weather satellite , and formed part of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system. Originally built as a ground spare ,
#7 Spektr-RG
Spektr-RG ( Russian : Спектр-РГ, Spectrum + Röntgen + Gamma ; also called Spectrum-X-Gamma , SRG , SXG ) is a Russian–German high-energy astrophysics space observatory which was launched on 13 July 2019. [4] It follows on from the Spektr-R satellite telescope launched in 2011. [5] Russian–German obs
#8 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
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
#10 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
#11 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
#12 Goliat
Goliat is the first artificial satellite developed in Romania . Not to be confused with Goliath or Goliath (disambiguation) . For the oil field, see Goliat field . Goliat Mission type Science, Experimental Operator Romanian Space Agency COSPAR ID 2012-006D SATCAT no. 38080 Spacecraft properties Manu
#13 Kosmos 398
Kosmos 398 ( Russian : Космос 398 ; meaning Cosmos 398 ) was the second unmanned test flight of the Soviet LK lander , using the T2K version. It followed the same program as Kosmos 379 , launching on February 26, 1971 into a 276 km by 196 km orbit. It main objective was to validate contingency a
#14 Telstar
Telstar is the name of various communications satellites . The first two Telstar satellites were experimental and nearly identical. Telstar 1 launched on top of a Thor-Delta rocket on July 10, 1962. It successfully relayed through space the first television pictures, telephone calls, and telegraph i
#15 Mars 2MV-4 No.1
Mars 2MV-4 No.1 [1] [2] also known as Sputnik 22 in the West, was a Soviet spacecraft, which was launched in 1962 as part of the Mars programme , and was intended to make a flyby of Mars , [3] and transmit images of the planet back to Earth. [4] Due to a problem with the rocket which launched it, it
#16 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
#17 Kosmos 108
Kosmos 108 ( Russian : Космос 108 meaning Cosmos 108 ), also known as DS-U1-G No.1 , was a Soviet satellite which was launched in 1966 as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik programme. It was a 355 kilograms (783 lb) spacecraft, which was built by the Yuzhnoye Design Office , and was used to study
#18 Starlink
Starlink is a satellite internet constellation operated by SpaceX , [3] providing satellite Internet access coverage to 40 countries. It also aims for global mobile phone service after 2023. [4] SpaceX started launching Starlink satellites in 2019. As of September 2022, Starlink consists of over 3,0
#19 Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2
Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 ( Korean : 광명성 2호 , meaning Bright Star-2 [1] or Lode Star-2 [2] ) was a satellite launched by North Korea on April 5, 2009. North Korean satellite Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 Kwangmyongsong-2 as it would have looked in orbit in a 2009 computer graphic video Mission type Communication /Technol
#20 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