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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
Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev ( Russian : Павел Иванович Беляев ; 26 June 1925 – 10 January 1970) was a Soviet fighter pilot with extensive experience in piloting different types of aircraft. He was the first commander of the cosmonaut corps and the cosmonaut who commanded the historic Voskhod 2 mission
Richard Allen Garriott de Cayeux ( né Garriott ; born July 4, 1961) is an American video game developer , entrepreneur and private astronaut. Although both his parents were American, he maintains dual British and American citizenship by birth. [1] American video game developer and entrepreneur (born
#4 Jonny Kim
Jonathan Yong Kim (born 5 February 1984), also called Jonny Kim , is an American US Navy lieutenant commander (and former SEAL ), physician , and NASA astronaut . American sailor, physician, and astronaut This article is about the American sailor, physician, and astronaut. For the South Korean film
William Frederick Fisher (born April 1, 1946) is an American physician and a former NASA astronaut . Fisher went into space in 1985 on board the Space Shuttle. He retired from NASA in 1992 [1] and returned to the full-time practice of medicine. His time at NASA coincided with that of his former wife
#6 Loral O'Hara
Loral Ashley O'Hara (born May 3, 1983) is an American engineer and NASA astronaut. US astronaut candidate Loral O'Hara Born Loral Ashley O'Hara ( 1983-05-03 ) May 3, 1983 (age 39) Houston , Texas , U.S. Status Active Alma mater University of Kansas ( BS ) Purdue University ( MS ) Space career NA
#7 Yuri Usachov
Yury Vladimirovich Usachov ( Russian : Юрий Владимирович Усачёв ; born October 9, 1957) is a former cosmonaut who resides in Star City, Moscow . Usachov is a veteran of four spaceflights, including two long duration missions on board the Mir Space Station and another on board the International Space
USS Midway (CVB/CVA/CV-41) is an aircraft carrier , formerly of the United States Navy , the lead ship of her class . Commissioned 8 days after the end of World War II, Midway was the largest ship in the world until 1955, as well as the first U.S. aircraft carrier too big to transit the Panama Canal
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
The USS Midway Museum is a historical naval aircraft carrier museum located in downtown San Diego , California at Navy Pier. The museum consists of the aircraft carrier Midway . The ship houses an extensive collection of aircraft, many of which were built in Southern California . [1] [2] Maritime mu
#1 Sentinel-1B
Sentinel-1B is a European radar imaging satellite launched on 25 April 2016. It is the second of two original satellites in the Sentinel-1 constellation , part of the European Union 's Copernicus programme on Earth observation . The satellite carries a C - SAR sensor, capable of providing high-resol
#2 Ariel 4
Ariel 4 , known pre-launch as UK 4 , was a British ionospheric research satellite , which was operated by the Science and Engineering Research Council . It was launched 11 December 1971, aboard an American Scout rocket . Experiments were designed to meet one scientific objective, making it the first
#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 USA-207
USA-207 , [4] international COSPAR code 2009-047A , [5] also known as PAN , officially meaning Palladium At Night , [6] NEMESIS I, [7] or P360 [8] is a classified American SIGINT satellite, [7] which was launched in September 2009. The US government has not confirmed which of its intelligence agenci
#5 Explorer 45
Explorer 45 (also called as SSS-A and S-Cubed A ) was a NASA satellite launched as part of Explorer program . Explorer 45 was the only one to be released from the program Small Scientific Satellite . [3] [4] NASA satellite of the Explorer program Explorer 45 Explorer 45 (SSS-A) satellite Names SSS-A
#6 Apollo 10
Apollo 10 (May 18–26, 1969) was a human spaceflight , the fourth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program , and the second (after Apollo 8 ) to orbit the Moon. NASA described it as a "dress rehearsal" for the first Moon landing , [2] and designated it an "F" mission , intended to test
#7 JCSAT-2B
JCSAT-2B , known as JCSAT-14 before commissioning, is a geostationary communications satellite operated by SKY Perfect JSAT Group and designed and manufactured by SSL on the SSL 1300 platform. [4] [5] It had a launch weight of 4,696.2 kg (10,353 lb) , a power production capacity of 9 to 9.9 kW
#8 Soyuz 17
Soyuz 17 ( Russian : Союз 17 , Union 17 ) was the first of two long-duration missions to the Soviet Union 's Salyut 4 space station in 1975. The flight by cosmonauts Aleksei Gubarev and Georgy Grechko set a Soviet mission-duration record of 29 days, surpassing the 23-day record set by the ill-fated
#9 Türksat 2A
Türksat 2A , a.k.a. Eurasiasat 1 , was a Turkish communications satellite as part of a project to form an instant network with two geosynchronous satellites that is supervised by the companies Türksat A.Ş. in Turkey and Eurasiasat SAM in Monaco . [1] [3] [4] Türksat 2A Mission type Communication Ope
#10 WRESAT
WRESAT or Weapons Research Establishment Satellite was the first Australian satellite, named after its designer . WRESAT was launched on 29 November 1967 using a modified American Redstone rocket with two upper stages known as a Sparta from the Woomera Test Range in South Australia. The Sparta (left
#11 NEAR Shoemaker
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
#12 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
#13 CoRoT
CoRoT (French: Co nvection, Ro tation et T ransits planétaires ; English: Co nvection, Ro tation and planetary T ransits) was a space telescope mission which operated from 2006 to 2013. The mission's two objectives were to search for extrasolar planets with short orbital periods, particularly those
#14 Soyuz 27
Soyuz 27 ( Russian : Союз 27 , Union 27 ) was a 1978 Soviet crewed spacecraft which flew to the orbiting Salyut 6 space station, during the mission EP-1 . [2] It was the third crewed flight to the station, the second successful docking and the first visitation mission. Once docked, it marked the fir
#15 MaSat-1
MaSat-1 (from the words Ma gyar and Sat ellite , the first meaning " Hungarian " in Hungarian, maszat , pronounced IPA [ˈmɒsɒt], meaning "smudge") is the first indigenous Hungarian satellite , developed and built by students at the Technical University of Budapest . The 1U CubeSat -type satellite wa
#16 Intelsat 704
Intelsat 704 (also known as IS-704 and Intelsat 7-F4 ) is a geostationary communication satellite that was built by Space Systems/Loral (SSL). It is located in the orbital position of 29.5 degrees east longitude and it is currently in an inclined orbit . The same is owned by Intelsat and after sold
#17 Space Capsule Recovery Experiment
The Space Capsule Recovery Experiment ( SCRE or more commonly SRE or SRE-1 ) is an Indian experimental spacecraft which was launched at 03:53 UTC on January 10, 2007, from Sriharikota by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The launch was conducted using the C7 launch of the PSLV rocket, a
#18 Cartosat-2
Cartosat-2 is an Earth observation satellite in a Sun-synchronous orbit and the second of the Cartosat series of satellites. The satellite was built, launched and maintained by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Weighing around 680 kg at launch, its applications will mainly be towards
#19 STS-61-C
STS-61-C was the 24th mission of NASA 's Space Shuttle program , and the seventh mission of Space Shuttle Columbia . It was the first time that Columbia , the first space-rated Space Shuttle orbiter to be constructed, had flown since STS-9 . The mission launched from Florida 's Kennedy Space Center
Helios-A and Helios-B (after launch renamed Helios 1 and Helios 2 ) are a pair of probes that were launched into heliocentric orbit to study solar processes. As a joint venture between German Aerospace Center (DLR) and NASA , the probes were launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station , Florida ,