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Albert Scott Crossfield (October 2, 1921 – April 19, 2006) was an American naval officer and test pilot . In 1953, he became the first pilot to fly at twice the speed of sound . Crossfield was the first of twelve pilots who flew the North American X-15 , an experimental spaceplane jointly operated b
Koichi Wakata ( 若田 光一 , Wakata Kōichi , born 1 August 1963) is a Japanese engineer and a JAXA astronaut . Wakata is a veteran of four NASA Space Shuttle missions, a Russian Soyuz mission, and a long-duration stay on the International Space Station . [1] During a nearly two-decade career in spaceflig
Claudie (André-Deshays) Haigneré (born 13 May 1957) is a French doctor, politician and former astronaut with the Centre National d'Études Spatiales (1985–1999) and the European Space Agency (1999–2002). [1] French astronaut, politician and doctor Claudie Haigneré Born ( 1957-05-13 ) 13 May 1957 (age
Samantha Cristoforetti , OMRI ( Italian pronunciation: [saˈmanta kristofoˈretti] ; born in Milan on 26 April 1977) is an Italian European Space Agency astronaut, former Italian Air Force pilot and engineer. She holds the record for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight by a European astronaut (199
Space tourism is human space travel for recreational purposes. [1] There are several different types of space tourism, including orbital, suborbital and lunar space tourism. Space travel for recreational purposes This article is about paying space travellers. For other commercial spacefarers, see Co
Pavel Romanovich Popovich ( Russian : Па́вел Рома́нович Попо́вич , Ukrainian : Павло Романович Попович , Pavlo Romanovych Popovych) (5 October 1930 – 29 September 2009 [2] [3] ) was a Soviet cosmonaut . [1] Soviet pilot and cosmonaut Pavel Romanovich Popovich Born ( 1930-10-05 ) 5 October 1930 Uzyn
Chris Austin Hadfield OC OOnt MSC CD (born August 29, 1959) is a Canadian retired astronaut , engineer, fighter pilot , and musician. The first Canadian to perform extravehicular activity in outer space , he has flown two Space Shuttle missions and also served as commander of the International Space
Valentin Vitalyevich Lebedev ( Russian : Валентин Витальевич Лебедев ; born April 14, 1942 in Moscow ) is a Soviet cosmonaut who made two flights into space . His stay aboard the Space Station Salyut 7 with Anatoly Berezovoy in 1982, which lasted 211 days, [1] was recorded in the Guinness Book of Re
#9 Yozo Hirano
Yozo Hirano ( 平野 陽三 , Hirano Yozo , born October 12, 1985) is a Japanese space tourist . He flew on Soyuz MS-20 . [1] Japanese spaceflight participant Yozo Hirano 平野 陽三 Born ( 1985-10-12 ) October 12, 1985 (age 36) Imabari , Ehime Prefecture , Japan Occupation Film producer Organization Start Toda
#10 Kathryn P. Hire
Kathryn Patricia " Kay " Hire (born August 26, 1959) is a former NASA astronaut and Captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve who has flown aboard two Space Shuttle missions. NASA astronaut and Captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve Kathryn Hire Born ( 1959-08-26 ) August 26, 1959 (age 63) Mobile, Alabama , U.S.
Catherine Grace " Cady " Coleman (born December 14, 1960) is an American chemist , an engineer , a former United States Air Force colonel, and a retired NASA astronaut . [1] She is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions, and departed the International Space Station on May 23, 2011, as a crew member
#12 Aleksandr Kaleri
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
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dzhanibekov ( Russian : Владимир Александрович Джанибеков , born 13 May 1942) is a former cosmonaut who made five flights. Soviet general, pilot and cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov Владимир Джанибеков Vladimir Dzhanibekov in 1993 Born ( 1942-05-13 ) 13 May 1942 (age 80) Iska
Richard Alan "Rick" Mastracchio (born February 11, 1960) is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut . He has flown on three NASA Space Shuttle missions as a mission specialist in addition to serving as a Flight Engineer on the Soyuz TMA-11M ( Expedition 38 / Expedition 39 ) long duration miss
#15 Sarah Brightman
Sarah Brightman (born 14 August 1960) [1] is an English classical crossover soprano singer, actress and dancer. British soprano (born 1960) Sarah Brightman Brightman at the World Athletics Championships in Osaka in 2007 Born ( 1960-08-14 ) 14 August 1960 (age 62) Berkhamsted , Hertfordshire , Engl
#16 Yusaku Maezawa
Yusaku Maezawa ( 前澤 友作 , Maezawa Yūsaku , born 22 November 1975) is a Japanese billionaire entrepreneur and art collector. He founded Start Today in 1998 and launched the online fashion retail website Zozotown in 2004, now Japan's largest. Most recently, Maezawa introduced a custom-fit apparel brand
#17 Thomas Marshburn
Thomas Henry Marshburn (born August 29, 1960) is an American physician and a NASA astronaut . He is a veteran of three spaceflights to the International Space Station . [1] [2] American physician and NASA astronaut Thomas Marshburn Born Thomas Henry Marshburn ( 1960-08-29 ) August 29, 1960 (age 62
#18 Jack D. Fischer
Jack David Fischer (born January 23, 1974) is an American engineer , test pilot and a former NASA astronaut . [2] Fischer was selected in June 2009 as a member of the NASA Astronaut Group 20 and qualified as an astronaut in 2011. He made his first spaceflight in April 2017, as a flight engineer for
The Swedish Air Force Museum ( Swedish : Flygvapenmuseum ) is located at Malmen Airbase in Malmslätt, just outside Linköping , Sweden. Malmen is where Baron Carl Cederström , nicknamed the "Flyer Baron" founded his flying school in 1912. Malmen Airbase is home to the Royal Swedish Airschool operatin
Floyd Bennett Field is an airfield in the Marine Park neighborhood of southeast Brooklyn in New York City , along the shore of Jamaica Bay . The airport originally hosted commercial and general aviation traffic before being used as a naval air station . Bennett Field is currently part of the Gateway
Shuguang One ( Chinese : 曙光一号 ), meaning "dawn" in Mandarin , also known as Project 714 ( Chinese : 七一四工程 ), was the first crewed spacecraft proposed by the People's Republic of China during the late 1960s and early 1970s that was never built. The design was for a two-person capsule similar to the G
#2 Cygnus NG-13
NG-13 , previously known as OA-13 , was the fourteenth flight of the Northrop Grumman robotic resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its thirteenth flight to the International Space Station (ISS) under the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-1) contract with NASA . [4] [5] The mission launched on 15 February
The Midcourse Space Experiment ( MSX ) is a Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) satellite experiment ( unmanned space mission ) to map bright infrared sources in space. MSX offered the first system demonstration of technology in space to identify and track ballistic missiles during their m
#4 NigComSat-1
NigComSat-1 was a Nigerian communication satellite . The initial contract to build the satellite was signed in 2004. It was launched in China by Nasrda and became the third African geosynchronous communication satellite , when it was launched at 16:01 UTC on 13 May 2007, aboard a Chinese Long March
#5 OPS 5112
OPS 5112 , also known as Navstar 2 , NDS-2 , GPS I-2 and GPS SVN-2 , was an American navigation satellite launched in 1978 as part of the Global Positioning System development programme. It was the second of eleven Block I GPS satellites to be launched. [2] OPS 5112 Names Navstar 2 NDS-2 GPS I-2 GPS
#6 Progress 36
Progress 36 ( Russian : Прогресс 36 ) was a Soviet uncrewed Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in May 1988 to resupply the Mir space station. Progress 36 A Progress 7K-TG spacecraft Mission type Mir resupply COSPAR ID 1988-038A SATCAT no. 19117 [1] Spacecraft properties Spacecraft Progres
#7 Soyuz 32
Soyuz 32 ( Russian : Союз 32 , Union 32 ) was a 1979 Soviet crewed space flight to the Salyut 6 space station . [1] It was the eighth mission to and seventh successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 32 crew was the third long-duration crew to man the space station. Soyuz 32 COSPAR ID 19
T12 , formerly known as D12 , is a Boeing model 702 satellite built by the Boeing Satellite Development Center . It was launched on December 29, 2009 and became operational on May 19, 2010. It is used by DirecTV to provide additional high definition channels and Video on demand content, as well as 3
Soyuz TMA-07M ( Russian : Союз ТМА-07M ) was a spaceflight launched to the International Space Station in 2012 which transported three members of the Expedition 34 crew to the station. The Soyuz remained docked to the space station and served as an emergency escape vehicle for the Expedition 35 incr
#10 STS-49
STS-49 was the NASA maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour , which launched on 7 May 1992. The primary goal of its nine-day mission was to retrieve an Intelsat VI satellite, Intelsat 603 , which failed to leave Low Earth orbit two years before, attach it to a new upper stage, and relaunch it t
#11 Soyuz TMA-11M
Soyuz TMA-11M was a 2013 flight to the International Space Station . It transported three members of the Expedition 38 crew to the International Space Station. TMA-11M is the 120th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft , with the first flight launching in 1967. The successful docking of the Soyuz TMA-11M spa
#12 Soyuz MS-20
Soyuz MS-20 was a Russian Soyuz spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS) launched on 8 December 2021. [1] Unlike previous Soyuz flights to the ISS, Soyuz MS-20 did not deliver any crew members for an ISS Expedition or serve as a lifeboat for any crew members on board the station. Instead
#13 Nigeria EduSat-1
Nigeria EduSat-1 was a Nigerian nanosatellite built by the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), created in conjunction with the Japanese Birds-1 program. It was Nigeria's first satellite built by a university. It was launched from the Japanese Kibō module of the International Space Station
#14 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
#15 Project Echo
Project Echo was the first passive communications satellite experiment. Each of the two American spacecraft, launched in 1960 and 1964, were metalized balloon satellites acting as passive reflectors of microwave signals. Communication signals were transmitted from one location on Earth and bounced o
#16 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
#17 Soyuz TMA-18M
Soyuz TMA-18M was a 2015 Soyuz spaceflight to the International Space Station . It provided the two twelve-months occupants ( Scott Kelly and Mikhail Korniyenko ) at the International Space Station with a fresh Soyuz capsule. TMA-18M was the 127th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft; the first having occur
#18 Salyut 2
Salyut 2 ( OPS-1 ) ( Russian : Салют-2 meaning Salute 2 ) was a Soviet space station which was launched in 1973 as part of the Salyut programme . It was the first Almaz military space station to fly. Within two weeks of its launch, the station had lost attitude control and depressurized, leaving it
#19 NERVA
The Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application ( NERVA ) was a nuclear thermal rocket engine development program that ran for roughly two decades. Its principal objective was to "establish a technology base for nuclear rocket engine systems to be utilized in the design and development of propulsi
#20 Mercury-Atlas 7
Mercury-Atlas 7 , launched May 24, 1962, was the fourth crewed flight of Project Mercury . The spacecraft, named Aurora 7 , was piloted by astronaut Scott Carpenter . He was the sixth human to fly in space. The mission used Mercury spacecraft No. 18 and Atlas launch vehicle No. 107-D. 1962 crewed sp