langs: 20 июня [ru] / june 20 [en] / 20. juni [de] / 20 juin [fr] / 20 giugno [it] / 20 de junio [es]
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#1 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
Charles Eldon Brady Jr. (August 12, 1951 – July 23, 2006) was an American physician , a captain in the United States Navy and a NASA astronaut . [1] [2] [3] He spent 16 days in space on the Space Shuttle 's STS-78 flight in 1996. American astronaut Charles Eldon Brady Jr. Born ( 1951-08-12 ) August
Lloyd Blaine Hammond Jr. (born January 16, 1952) is a Gulfstream test pilot , a former United States Air Force officer, and a former NASA astronaut . He flew on two Space Shuttle missions. US Air Force pilot and NASA astronaut This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these
Colonel Gary Eugene Payton , USAF , (born June 20, 1948) is an American astronaut and USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer . American astronaut This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) Thi
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
#6 James Buchli
James Frederick Buchli (born June 20, 1945, in New Rockford, North Dakota ) is a retired United States Marine aviator and former NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions. NASA astronaut James F. Buchli Born ( 1945-06-20 ) June 20, 1945 (age 77) New Rockford, North Dakota , U.S. Statu
Brian Duffy (born June 20, 1953, Boston, Massachusetts ) is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and a former NASA astronaut . He flew aboard four Space Shuttle missions. Former American astronaut This article is about the American astronaut. For other uses, see Brian Duffy (disambiguation) . Brian Duff
Richard Michael Linnehan (born September 19, 1957) is a United States Army veterinarian and a NASA astronaut . Richard M. Linnehan Born Richard Michael Linnehan ( 1957-09-19 ) September 19, 1957 (age 64) Lowell, Massachusetts , U.S. Status Management Astronaut Nationality American Alma mater Uni
Jean-Jacques Favier (Born April 13, 1949) is a French engineer and a former CNES astronaut who flew aboard the STS-78 NASA Space Shuttle mission. Favier was due to fly aboard the destroyed Columbia mission in 2003, but later signed out of the mission. Jean-Jacques Favier has been Deputy Director for
#10 Robert Thirsk
Robert Brent " Bob " Thirsk , OC OBC (born August 17, 1953) is a Canadian engineer and physician, and a former Canadian Space Agency astronaut. He holds the Canadian records for the most time spent in space (204 days 18 hours). He became an officer of the Order of Canada (OC) in 2013 and was named t
#11 Oleg Blinov
Oleg Vladimirovich Blinov ( Russian : Олег Владимирович Блинов ; born 17 August 1978 in Tatary , Kirovo-Chepetsky District , Kirov Oblast , RSFSR , USSR) is a retired Russian cosmonaut . Russian cosmonaut Oleg Vladimirovich Blinov Born ( 1978-08-17 ) 17 August 1978 (age 43) Tatary , Kirovo-Chepets
#12 Ilan Ramon
Ilan Ramon ( Hebrew : אילן רמון ; pronounced [(ʔ)iˈlan ʁaˈmon] , born Ilan Wolfferman אילן וולפרמן ; June 20, 1954 – February 1, 2003) [1] was an Israeli fighter pilot and later the first Israeli astronaut . Ramon was a Space Shuttle payload specialist of STS-107 , the fatal mission of Columbia ,
#13 Andy Thomas
Andrew "Andy" Sydney Withiel Thomas , AO (born 18 December 1951) is an Australian and American aerospace engineer and a former NASA astronaut . He has dual nationality; [1] he became a U.S. citizen in December 1986, hoping to gain entry to NASA's astronaut program. [2] He is married to fellow NASA a
#14 Kevin R. Kregel
Kevin Richard Kregel (born September 16, 1956) is an American former astronaut, and former member of the Space Launch Initiative Project at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . Kevin R. Kregel Born Kevin Richard Kregel ( 1956-09-16 ) September 16, 1956 (age 65) Amityville, New York , U.S. Status R
Terence Thomas "Tom" Henricks (born July 5, 1952) is a retired colonel in the United States Air Force and a former NASA astronaut . He served on four Space Shuttle missions. Terence Thomas "Tom" Henricks Born ( 1952-07-05 ) July 5, 1952 (age 70) Bryan, Ohio , U.S. Status Retired Nationality Americ
#16 Ulf Merbold
Ulf Dietrich Merbold (born June 20, 1941) is a German physicist and astronaut who flew to space three times, becoming the first West-German citizen in space and the first non-American to fly on a NASA spacecraft. Merbold flew on two Space Shuttle missions and on a Russian mission to the space statio
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
Castle Air Museum is a military aviation museum located in Atwater, California , United States adjacent to Castle Airport , a former United States Air Force Strategic Air Command base which was closed in 1995, after the end of the Cold War . It is one of the largest aerospace museums displaying vint
#1 OSTM/Jason-2
OSTM/Jason-2 , or Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason-2 satellite, [1] was an international Earth observation satellite altimeter joint mission for sea surface height measurements between NASA and CNES . It was the third satellite in a series started in 1992 by the NASA/CNES TOPEX/Poseidon missio
#2 STS-78
STS-78 was the fifth dedicated Life and Microgravity Spacelab mission for the Space Shuttle program , flown partly in preparation for the International Space Station project. The mission used the Space Shuttle Columbia , which lifted off successfully from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39B on 20
SpaceX CRS-22 , also known as SpX-22 , was a Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) mission to the International Space Station (ISS) that launched at 17:29:15 UTC on 3 June 2021. [1] The mission is contracted by NASA and is flown by SpaceX using a Cargo Dragon 2 . This is the second flight for SpaceX un
#4 STS-8
STS-8 was the eighth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the third flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger . It launched on August 30, 1983, and landed on September 5, 1983, conducting the first night launch and night landing of the Space Shuttle program . It also carried the first African-American astron
#5 Explorer 49
Explorer 49 (also called Radio Astronomy Explorer-2 , RAE-B ) was a NASA 328 kg (723 lb) satellite launched on 10 June 1973, for long wave radio astronomy research. It had four 230 m (750 ft) X-shaped antenna elements, which made it one of the largest spacecraft ever built. [3] NASA satellit
#6 Kosmos 335
Kosmos 335 ( Russian : Космос 335 meaning Cosmos 335 ), also known as DS-U1-R No.1 , was a Soviet satellite which was launched in 1970 as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik programme. It was a 295-kilogram (650 lb) spacecraft, [1] which was built by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau , and was used to stu
#7 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
#8 Tiangong-1
Tiangong-1 ( Chinese : 天宫一号 ; pinyin : Tiāngōng yīhào ; lit. 'Heaven's Palace-1" or "Celestial Palace-1"' ) was China's first prototype space station . [9] It orbited Earth from September 2011 to April 2018, serving as both a crewed laboratory and an experimental testbed to demonstrate orbital rende
The Johannes Kepler ATV , or Automated Transfer Vehicle 002 ( ATV-002 ), was an uncrewed cargo spacecraft built to resupply the International Space Station (ISS). It was launched on February 16, 2011 by the European Space Agency (ESA). [3] Johannes Kepler carried propellant, air and dry cargo weighi
#10 Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite
Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite ( SWAS , also Explorer 74 and SMEX-3 ) is a NASA submillimetre astronomy satellite, and is the fourth spacecraft in the Small Explorer program (SMEX). It was launched on 6 December 1998, at 00:57:54 UTC , from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Pegasus XL launc
#11 Cygnus NG-17
Cygnus NG-17 , [2] previously known as Cygnus OA-17 , was the seventeenth flight of the Northrop Grumman robotic resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its sixteenth flight to the International Space Station (ISS) under the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract with NASA . The mission launched on 19 F
USA-1 , also known as Navstar 9 , GPS I-9 and GPS SVN-9 , was an American navigation satellite launched in 1984 as part of the Global Positioning System development programme. It was the ninth of eleven Block I GPS satellites to be launched, [2] and the first satellite to receive a USA designation .
#13 Foton-M No.2
Foton-M No.2 was an unmanned Foton-M spacecraft which carried a European payload for the European Space Agency (ESA). It was placed into orbit by a Russian Soyuz-U rocket launched at 12:00 UTC on 20 June 2005 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan by the Russian Space Agency (RKA). The Foton-M N
#14 STS-117
STS-117 ( ISS assembly flight 13A ) was a Space Shuttle mission flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis , launched from pad 39A of the Kennedy Space Center on 8 June 2007. Atlantis lifted off from the launch pad at 19:38 EDT. Damage from a hail storm on 26 February 2007 had previously caused the launch to b
#15 OSCAR 2
OSCAR II (a.k.a. OSCAR 2) is the second amateur radio satellite launched by Project OSCAR into Low Earth orbit . OSCAR II was launched June 2, 1962, by a Thor-DM21 Agena B launcher from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Lompoc, California. The satellite, a rectangular box ( 30 cm × 25 cm × 12 cm
#16 Shenzhou 10
Shenzhou 10 ( Chinese : 神舟十号 ; pinyin : Shénzhōu Shíhào ) was a crewed spaceflight of China 's Shenzhou program that was launched on 11 June 2013. It was China's fifth crewed space mission. [2] [3] The mission had a crew of three astronauts: Nie Haisheng , who was mission commander and previously fl
#17 MW 18014
MW 18014 was a German A-4/V-2 rocket [nb 1] test launch that took place on 20 June 1944, [1] [2] [3] at the Peenemünde Army Research Center in Peenemünde . It was the second man-made object to reach outer space , attaining an apogee of 176 kilometers (109.3 miles), which is well above the Kármán lin
The DC-X , short for Delta Clipper or Delta Clipper Experimental , was an uncrewed prototype of a reusable single-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle built by McDonnell Douglas in conjunction with the United States Department of Defense 's Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) from 1991 to 1993
#19 RemoveDEBRIS
RemoveDEBRIS was a satellite research project intending to demonstrate various space debris removal technologies. The mission was led by the Surrey Space Centre from the University of Surrey with the satellite's platform manufactured by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL). Partners on the project
#20 STS-121
STS-121 was a 2006 NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Discovery . The main purposes of the mission were to test new safety and repair techniques introduced following the Columbia disaster of February 2003 as well as to deliver supplies, equipme