langs: 25 июля [ru] / july 25 [en] / 25. juli [de] / 25 juillet [fr] / 25 luglio [it] / 25 de julio [es]
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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
Vance DeVoe Brand (born May 9, 1931) is an American naval officer , aviator , aeronautical engineer , test pilot , and NASA astronaut . He served as command module pilot during the first U.S.-Soviet joint spaceflight in 1975, and as commander of three Space Shuttle missions . American former naval o
Paul Joseph Weitz (July 25, 1932 – October 22, 2017) was an American naval officer and aviator , aeronautical engineer , test pilot , and NASA astronaut , who flew into space twice. He was a member of the three-man crew who flew on Skylab 2 , the first crewed Skylab mission. He was also Commander
Edgar Dean Mitchell (September 17, 1930 – February 4, 2016) was a United States Navy officer and aviator , test pilot , aeronautical engineer , ufologist and NASA astronaut . As the Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 14 in 1971 he spent nine hours working on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands
Leonid Grigoriyevich Ivanov (June 25, 1950 – October 24, 1980) was a member of Soviet Air Force Cosmonaut Training Group 6. He graduated from Higher Air Force School, Kachinsk, in 1971. [1] [2] This article is about the Soviet cosmonaut. For the Soviet World War II pilot with a similar name, see Leo
Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya ( Russian : Светла́на Евге́ньевна Сави́цкая ; born 8 August 1948) is a Russian former aviator and Soviet cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space. On her 1984 Soyuz T-12 mission she became the first woman to fly to space twice, a
Guion Stewart Bluford Jr. (born November 22, 1942) is an American aerospace engineer , retired U.S. Air Force officer and fighter pilot , and former NASA astronaut in which capacity he became the second person of African descent to go to space . [1] [2] [lower-alpha 1] Before becoming an astronaut,
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
John Shoffner (born 25 July 1955 in Fairbanks, Alaska ) is an American racing driver , investor , and pilot . In May 2021, he was selected by Axiom Space to pilot the SpaceX Dragon 2 on Axiom Mission 2 . [1] [2] American racing driver, investor, and pilot A major contributor to this article appears
The March Field Air Museum is an aviation museum near Moreno Valley and Riverside, California , adjacent to March Air Reserve Base . Aviation museum in near Moreno Valley, California March Field Air Museum Location within California Established 1979 ( 1979 ) Location Riverside County , near Moreno
The National Museum of Flight is Scotland's national aviation museum , at East Fortune Airfield, just south of the village of East Fortune , Scotland . It is one of the museums within National Museums Scotland . The museum is housed in the original wartime buildings of RAF East Fortune which is a we
SpaceX CRS-18 , also known as SpX-18 , was SpaceX 's 18th flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services program for NASA . It was launched on 25 July 2019 aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. [6] [7] 2019 American resupply spaceflight to the ISS SpaceX CRS-18 Dragon C108.3 ap
#2 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
#3 Voyager 2
Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, to study the outer planets and interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere . As a part of the Voyager program , it was launched 16 days before its twin, Voyager 1 , on a trajectory that took longer to reach gas giants Jupiter and Sa
The Viking program consisted of a pair of identical American space probes , Viking 1 and Viking 2 , which landed on Mars in 1976. [1] Each spacecraft was composed of two main parts: an orbiter designed to photograph the surface of Mars from orbit , and a lander designed to study the planet from the
#5 Vostok 2
Vostok 2 ( Russian : Восток-2 , Orient 2 or East 2 ) was a Soviet space mission which carried cosmonaut Gherman Titov into orbit for a full day on August 6, 1961, to study the effects of a more prolonged period of weightlessness on the human body. [1] Titov orbited the Earth over 17 times, exceeding
#6 Viking 2
The Viking 2 mission was part of the American Viking program to Mars , and consisted of an orbiter and a lander essentially identical to that of the Viking 1 mission. [1] Viking 2 was operational on Mars for 1281 sols ( 1316 days ; 3 years, 221 days ). The Viking 2 lander operated on the surface
#7 Shenzhou 14
Shenzhou 14 ( Chinese : 神舟十四号 ; pinyin : Shénzhōu Shísì-hào ; lit. ' Divine Boat Number 14' ) is a Chinese spaceflight that launched on 5 June 2022 at 02:44 UTC. The flight marks the ninth crewed Chinese spaceflight and the fourteenth flight of the Shenzhou program . The spacecraft carries three Peo
#8 Mars 5
Mars 5 ( Russian : Марс-5 ), also known as 3MS No.53S was a Soviet spacecraft launched to explore Mars. A 3MS spacecraft launched as part of the Mars programme , it successfully entered orbit around Mars in 1974. However, it failed a few weeks later. [4] Mars 5 Mission type Mars orbiter [1] Operator
#9 Kosmos 348
Kosmos 348 ( Russian : Космос 348 meaning Cosmos 348 ), also known as DS-U2-GK No.2 , was a Soviet satellite which was launched in 1970 as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik programme. It was a 357-kilogram (787 lb) spacecraft, [1] which was built by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau , and was used to st
#10 SSOT (satellite)
The Satellite System for Terrestrial Observation, Sistema Satelital para Observación de la Tierra (SSOT) , also known as FASat-Charlie , [1] is a Chilean satellite which was launched on December 16, 2011. [2] The objective of the SSOT is to have a satellite system for the observation of Earth based
#11 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
Nauka ( Russian : Наука , IPA: [nɐˈukə] , litt. Science ), also known as the Multipurpose Laboratory Module-Upgrade ( MLM-U ; Russian : Многоцелевой лабораторный модуль, усоверше́нствованный, or МЛМ-У ) or simply Multipurpose Laboratory Module ( MLM ), is a module of the International Space Statio
#13 Kosmos 668
Kosmos 668 ( Russian : Космос 668 meaning Cosmos 668 ), also known as DS-P1-Yu No.74 , was a Soviet satellite which was launched in 1974 as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik programme. It was a 400-kilogram (880 lb) spacecraft, which was built by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau , and was used as a rad
#14 SpaceX CRS-9
SpaceX CRS-9 , also known as SpX-9 , is a Commercial Resupply Service mission to the International Space Station which launched on 18 July 2016. [7] [8] The mission was contracted by NASA and is operated by SpaceX using a Dragon capsule. 2016 American resupply spaceflight to the ISS "CRS-9" redirect
#15 Salyut 7
Salyut 7 ( Russian : Салют-7 ; English: Salute 7 ) (a.k.a. DOS-6 , short for Durable Orbital Station [1] ) was a space station in low Earth orbit from April 1982 to February 1991. [1] It was first crewed in May 1982 with two crew via Soyuz T-5 , and last visited in June 1986, by Soyuz T-15 . [1] Var
#16 STS-38
STS-38 was a Space Shuttle mission by NASA using the Space Shuttle Atlantis . It was the 37th shuttle mission, and carried a classified payload for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). It was the seventh flight for Atlantis and the seventh flight dedicated to the Department of Defense. The mission
#17 Apollo 12
Apollo 12 (November 14 – 24, 1969) was the sixth crewed flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon . It was launched on November 14, 1969, by NASA from the Kennedy Space Center , Florida . Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean perfor
#18 STS-127
STS-127 ( ISS assembly flight 2J/A ) was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). [1] It was the twenty-third flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour . The primary purpose of the STS-127 mission was to deliver and install the final two components of the Japanese Experiment Mo
#19 Kosmos 2087
Kosmos 2087 ( Russian : Космос 2087 meaning Cosmos 2087 ) is a Russian US-K missile early warning satellite which was launched in 1990 as part of the Russian Space Forces ' Oko programme. The satellite is designed to identify missile launches using optical telescopes and infrared sensors . [2] Kosmo
#20 NOAA-15
NOAA-15 , also known as NOAA-K before launch, is an operational, polar-orbiting of the NASA -provided Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS) series of weather forecasting satellite operated by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA-15 was the latest in the Advanced T