langs: 12 июля [ru] / july 12 [en] / 12. juli [de] / 12 juillet [fr] / 12 luglio [it] / 12 de julio [es]
days: july 9 / july 10 / july 11 / july 12 / july 13 / july 14 / july 15
#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
Charles Owen Hobaugh (born November 5, 1961 in Bar Harbor , Maine [2] ) is a former NASA astronaut and a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer. He has had three spaceflights , all of which were Space Shuttle missions to the International Space Station , lasting between 10 and 13 days. Former NASA astron
Douglas Harry "Wheels" Wheelock (born May 5, 1960) is an American engineer and astronaut . He has flown in space twice, logging 178 days on the Space Shuttle , International Space Station , and Russian Soyuz . On July 12, 2011, Wheelock announced that he would be returning to active duty with the Un
#4 Lance Bass
James Lance Bass [3] ( / b æ s / ; born May 4, 1979) [4] is an American singer, dancer, actor, film, and television producer. He grew up in Mississippi and rose to fame as the bass singer for the American pop boy band NSYNC . NSYNC's success led Bass to work in film and television. He starred in the
#5 Igor Volk
Igor Petrovich Volk ( Russian : Игорь Петрович Волк , Ukrainian : Ігор Петрович Волк ; 12 April 1937 – 3 January 2017) was a Soviet test pilot and cosmonaut in the Buran programme . This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in Russian . (January 2019) Click [
#6 Pedro Duque
Pedro Francisco Duque Duque , OF , OMSE ( Madrid , 14 March 1963) is a Spanish astronaut and aeronautics engineer who served as Minister of Science of the Government of Spain from 2018 to 2021. He was also Member of the Congress of Deputies from May 2019 until February 2020. Spanish astronaut and po
Shannon Wells Lucid (born January 14, 1943) is an American biochemist and retired NASA astronaut . At one time, she held the record for the longest duration stay in space by an American and by a woman. She has flown in space five times including a prolonged mission aboard the Russian Mir space stati
#8 Oleg Grigoriyevich Kononenko
Oleg Grigoriyevich Kononenko (August 16, 1938 – September 8, 1980) was a member of Soviet cosmonaut group LII-1. He was born in the village of Samarskoye, in Rostov , Russia , then part of the Soviet Union. [1] He graduated from Zhukovsky Air Force Institute in 1975. [2] [3] On July 12, 1977, he was
William Shatner [3] OC (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor. In a career spanning seven decades, he is best known for his portrayal of James T. Kirk in the Star Trek franchise, from his 1965 debut as the captain of the starship Enterprise in the second pilot of the first Star Trek television se
Anatoly Semyonovich Levchenko ( Russian : Анатолий Семёнович Левченко ; May 5, 1941 – August 6, 1988) was a Soviet cosmonaut in the Buran programme . Soviet cosmonaut Not to be confused with Anatoly Nikolayevich Levchenko . Anatoly Semyonovich Levchenko Born ( 1941-05-09 ) May 9, 1941 Krasnokutsk ,
Michael Landon Gernhardt (born May 4, 1956) is a NASA astronaut and manager of the Environmental Physiology Laboratory, and principal investigator of the Prebreathe Reduction Program (PRP) at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . [1] NASA astronaut and manager of Environmental Physiology Laboratory M
#12 Rick Husband
Richard Douglas Husband (July 12, 1957 – February 1, 2003) was an American astronaut and fighter pilot . He traveled into space twice: as Pilot of STS-96 and Commander of STS-107 . He and the rest of the crew of STS-107 were killed when Columbia disintegrated during reentry into the Earth's atmosp
Vladimir Nikolayevich Dezhurov ( Russian : Влади́мир Никола́евич Дежу́ров ; born July 30, 1962) is a Russian former cosmonaut who resides in Star City, Moscow . He is a veteran of two spaceflights, to the Mir and International Space Stations. During his career, Dezhurov also conducted nine spacewalk
#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 Janet L. Kavandi
Janet Lynn Kavandi , a native of Carthage, Missouri , (born July 17, 1959) is an American scientist and a NASA astronaut . She is a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions, served as NASA's Deputy Chief of the Astronaut Office , [1] and was the Center Director at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cl
#16 Gus Grissom
Virgil Ivan " Gus " Grissom (April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967) was an American engineer, pilot in the United States Air Force , and member of the Mercury Seven selected by National Aeronautics and Space Administration 's (NASA) as Project Mercury astronauts to be the first Americans in outer space .
Milton Orville Thompson (May 4, 1926 – August 6, 1993), ( Lt Cmdr , USNR ), better known as Milt Thompson , was an American naval officer , aviator , engineer , and NASA research pilot. He was one of twelve pilots who flew the North American X-15 , an experimental spaceplane jointly operated by the
#1 Imperial War Museum Duxford
Imperial War Museum Duxford is a branch of the Imperial War Museum near Duxford in Cambridgeshire , England. Britain's largest aviation museum , [2] Duxford houses the museum's large exhibits, including nearly 200 aircraft , military vehicles, artillery and minor naval vessels in seven main exhibiti
Kjeller Airport ( Norwegian : Kjeller flyplass ; ICAO : ENKJ ) is a military and general aviation airport located in Kjeller in Skedsmo in Viken county , Norway. Situated in the outskirts of Lillestrøm , it is 9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi) east northeast of Oslo , making it the airport located
#1 STS-104
STS-104 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis . Its primary objectives were to install the Quest Joint Airlock and help perform maintenance on the International Space Station . It launched on 12 July 2001 at 09:04 UTC, and returned to Ea
#2 Alsat-2A
Alsat-2A is an Algerian satellite operated by the Algerian Space Agency for cartography, management of agriculture, forestry, water, mineral and oil resources. [2] The satellite weighs 117 kilograms (258 lb) and carries an earth optical payload. Algerian satellite for cartography and management of
Zvezda ( Russian : Звезда , meaning "star"), Salyut DOS-8 , also known as the Zvezda Service Module , is a module of the International Space Station (ISS). It was the third module launched to the station, and provided all of the station's life support systems , some of which are supplemented in the
#4 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
#5 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
#6 Cartosat-2B
Cartosat-2B is an Earth observation satellite in a Sun-synchronous orbit and the fourth of the Cartosat series of satellites. The satellite is the seventeenth satellite in the Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellite series to be built by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). [5] Indian Earth
#7 Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer
Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer ( FUSE , Explorer 77 , and MIDEX-0 ) represented the next generation, high-orbit, ultraviolet space observatory covering the wavelength range of 90.5–119.5 nanometre (nm) of the NASA operated by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory . FUSE was
#8 Progress 14
Progress 14 ( Russian : Прогресс 14 ) was a Soviet uncrewed Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in July 1982 to resupply the Salyut 7 space station. Soviet unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft Progress 14 A Progress 7K-TG spacecraft Mission type Salyut 7 resupply COSPAR ID 1982-070A SATCAT n
#9 Waseda-SAT2
Waseda-SAT2 is a Japanese satellite which launched in May 2010. It is a student-built spacecraft, which will be operated by Waseda University , and is intended to be used for Earth observation [2] and technology demonstration. It will test the use of extendible paddles to provide attitude control .
#10 STS-114
STS-114 was the first "Return to Flight" Space Shuttle mission following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster . Discovery launched at 10:39 EDT (14:39 UTC ), 26 July 2005. The launch, 907 days (approx. 29 months) after the loss of Columbia , was approved despite unresolved fuel sensor anomalies in th
#11 Badr-1
Badr-A ( Urdu : بدر-۱ , meaning Full Moon-A ) was the first artificial and the first digital communications satellite launched by Pakistan's national space authority — the SUPARCO — in 1990. [1] The Badr-A was Pakistan 's first indigenously developed and manufactured digital communications and an ex
#12 Tianlian
Tianlian ( Simplified Chinese : 天链, Traditional Chinese : 天鏈, English: Sky Chain ) also known as CTDRS , is a Chinese data relay communication satellite constellation. The constellation serves to relay data from ground stations to spacecraft and rockets, most significantly China's crewed spaceflight
#13 Progress M-02M
Progress M-02M ( Russian : Прогресс М-02М ), identified by NASA as Progress 33P , was a Progress spacecraft which was used to resupply the International Space Station during 2009. It was the second Progress-M 11F615A60 spacecraft, and had the serial number 402. Cargo spacecraft Progress M-02M Progre
#14 Earth Radiation Budget Satellite
The Earth Radiation Budget Satellite ( ERBS ) was a NASA scientific research satellite within NASA's ERBE (Earth Radiation Budget Experiment) Research Program - a three-satellite mission, designed to investigate the Earth ' s radiation budget . It also carried an instrument that studied stratospheri
#15 STS-135
STS-135 ( ISS assembly flight ULF7 ) [4] was the 135th and final mission of the American Space Shuttle program . [5] [6] It used the orbiter Atlantis and hardware originally processed for the STS-335 contingency mission, which was not flown. STS-135 launched on 8 July 2011, and landed on 21 July 201
#16 Phobos 2
Phobos 2 was the last space probe designed by the Soviet Union . It was designed to explore the moons of Mars , Phobos and Deimos . It was launched on 12 July 1988, and entered orbit on 29 January 1989. Soviet mars probe Phobos 2 Illustration of the Phobos spacecraft Mission type Orbiter Operator So
#17 Discoverer 25
Discoverer 25 , also known as Corona 9017 , was an American optical reconnaissance satellite which was launched in 1961. It was the fifth of ten Corona KH-2 satellites, based on the Agena-B . [1] Reconnaissance satellite Discoverer 25 Mission type Optical reconnaissance Operator US Air Force / NRO H
The Albert Einstein ATV , or Automated Transfer Vehicle 004 ( ATV-004 ), was a European uncrewed cargo resupply spacecraft , named after the German-born physicist Albert Einstein . [3] It was built to supply the International Space Station (ISS) with propellant, water, air, and dry cargo, and also t
#19 Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 ( / ˈ s p ʌ t n ɪ k , ˈ s p ʊ t n ɪ k / ; see § Etymology ) was the first artificial Earth satellite . [5] It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program . It sent a radio signal back to Earth for three weeks bef
#20 Soyuz TMA-05M
Soyuz TMA-05M was the 114th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft . It was launched on 15 July 2012, transporting three members of the Expedition 32 crew to the International Space Station (ISS). [1] [3] The Soyuz remained docked to the ISS throughout the mission to serve as an emergency escape vehicle. The