langs: 22 ноября [ru] / november 22 [en] / 22. november [de] / 22 novembre [fr] / 22 novembre [it] / 22 de noviembre [es]
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#1 Viktor Afanasyev (cosmonaut)
Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasyev ( Russian : Виктор Михайлович Афанасьев ; born 31 December 1948) is a colonel in the Russian Air Force and a test cosmonaut of the Yu. A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center . He was born 31 December 1948, in Bryansk , Russian SFSR , and is married to Yelena Ya. Afanasyev
Guy Laliberté , OC CQ (born 2 September 1959) is a Canadian billionaire businessman, and poker player. Along with Gilles Ste-Croix , he is the co-founder of Cirque du Soleil . In January 2018, Laliberté was ranked by Forbes as the 11th wealthiest Canadian. [1] Canadian businessman, investor, poker p
Franklin Story Musgrave (born August 19, 1935) is an American physician and a retired NASA astronaut . He is a public speaker [2] and consultant to both Disney 's Imagineering group and Applied Minds in California. In 1996, he became only the second astronaut to fly on six spaceflights, and he is th
John Elmer Blaha (born August 26, 1942, in San Antonio, Texas ) is a retired United States Air Force colonel and a former NASA astronaut . He is a veteran of five space missions aboard the Space Shuttle and Mir . American astronaut John E. Blaha Born John Elmer Blaha ( 1942-08-26 ) August 26, 1942 (
#5 Jeff Bezos
Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( / ˈ b eɪ z oʊ s / BAY -zohss ; [2] né Jorgensen ; born January 12, 1964) is an American entrepreneur, media proprietor , investor, computer engineer, and commercial astronaut . [3] [4] He is the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon . With a net
Owen Kay Garriott (November 22, 1930 – April 15, 2019) was an American electrical engineer and NASA astronaut , who spent 60 days aboard the Skylab space station in 1973 during the Skylab 3 mission, and 10 days aboard Spacelab-1 on a Space Shuttle mission in 1983. American electrical engineer and
Michael Edward Fossum (born December 19, 1957, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota ) is a former American astronaut , engineer , and the Chief Operating Officer of Texas A&M University at Galveston . He flew into space on board the NASA Space Shuttle missions STS-121 and STS-124 and served as a mission spe
Satoshi Furukawa ( 古川 聡 , Furukawa Satoshi , born April 4, 1964) is a Japanese surgeon and JAXA astronaut . Furukawa was assigned to the International Space Station as a flight engineer on long-duration missions Expedition 28 / 29 , lifting off 7 June 2011 and returning 22 November 2011. Japanese su
Kathryn Ryan Cordell Thornton (born August 17, 1952) is an American scientist and a former NASA astronaut with over 975 hours in space, including 21 hours of extravehicular activity. [1] She was the associate dean for graduate programs at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied
#10 William Shatner
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
#11 Sonny Carter
Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr. , M.D. (August 15, 1947 – April 5, 1991), ( Capt , USN ), was an American chemist , physician , professional soccer player, naval officer and aviator , test pilot , and NASA astronaut who flew on STS-33 . 20th-century American astronaut, chemist, and U.S. Navy office
#12 Tim Peake
Major Timothy Nigel “Tim” Peake CMG (born 7 April 1972) is a British Army Air Corps officer, European Space Agency astronaut [3] and a former International Space Station (ISS) crew member. British Army Air Corps officer and astronaut Tim Peake CMG HonFIET Official NASA portrait photograph, taken in
#13 Guion Bluford
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,
#14 Marc Garneau
Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau PC CC CD MP (born February 23, 1949) is a Canadian politician, retired Royal Canadian Navy officer and former astronaut who served as a Cabinet minister from 2015 to 2021. A member of the Liberal Party , Garneau was the minister of foreign affairs from January to Octo
#15 Mikhail Tyurin
Mikhail Vladislavovich Tyurin ( Russian : Михаил Владиславович Тюрин ; born March 2, 1960) is a former Russian cosmonaut who flew several missions to the International Space Station and completed four spacewalks during his career. He was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation for his work
Frederick Drew Gregory (born January 7, 1941) is a former United States Air Force pilot , military engineer , test pilot , and NASA astronaut as well as former NASA Deputy Administrator. He also served briefly as NASA Acting Administrator in early 2005, covering the period between the departure of S
#17 Sergey Avdeev
Sergei Vasilyevich Avdeyev (Сергей Васильевич Авдеев; born 1 January 1956) is a Russian engineer and cosmonaut . Russian engineer and cosmonaut This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification . ( March 2010 ) Sergei Avdeyev Born ( 1956-01-01 ) 1 January 1956 (age 66)
#18 Charles Simonyi
Charles Simonyi ( / s ɪ ˈ m oʊ n i / ; Hungarian : Simonyi Károly , pronounced [ˈʃimoɲi ˈkaːroj] ; born September 10, 1948) is a Hungarian-American software architect . He started and led Microsoft 's applications group, where he built the first versions of Microsoft Office . [1] Hungarian-America
#19 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
#1 National Museum of the United States Air Force
The National Museum of the United States Air Force (formerly the United States Air Force Museum ) is the official museum of the United States Air Force located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base , 6 miles (9.7 km) northeast of Dayton, Ohio . [3] The NMUSAF is the oldest and largest military aviati
The John F. Kennedy Space Center ( KSC , originally known as the NASA Launch Operations Center ), located on Merritt Island , Florida , is one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 's (NASA) ten field centers . Since December 1968, KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of human sp
#1 STS-129
STS-129 ( ISS assembly flight ULF3 ) [2] was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Atlantis was launched on November 16, 2009 at 14:28 EST , [3] [4] and landed at 09:44 EST on November 27, 2009 on runway 33 at the Kennedy Space Center 's Shuttle Landing Facility. It
#2 STS-126
STS-126 was the one hundred and twenty-fourth NASA Space Shuttle mission, and twenty-second orbital flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour (OV-105) to the International Space Station (ISS). [5] The purpose of the mission, referred to as ULF2 by the ISS program, was to deliver equipment and supplies t
Swarm is a European Space Agency (ESA) mission to study the Earth's magnetic field . High-precision and high-resolution measurements of the strength, direction and variations of the Earth's magnetic field, complemented by precise navigation, accelerometer and electric field measurements, will provid
#4 Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer ( AMS-02 ) is a particle physics experiment module that is mounted on the International Space Station (ISS). [4] The experiment is a recognized CERN experiment (RE1). [5] [6] The module is a detector that measures antimatter in cosmic rays ; this information is needed
#5 Samos 4
Samos 4 was an American reconnaissance satellite which was lost in a launch failure in 1961. [1] It was a film-return reconnaissance spacecraft, meaning that it returned images in a film capsule at the end of its mission. It was operated as part of the Samos programme. Samos 4 was the first of three
Poisk ( Russian : Поиск , lit. ' Search ' ), also known as the Mini-Research Module 2 ( MRM 2 ), Малый исследовательский модуль 2 , or МИМ 2 , is a docking module of the International Space Station . Its original name was Docking Module 2 ( Stykovochniy Otsek 2 , SO-2 ), as it is almost identical
Mars Global Surveyor ( MGS ) was an American robotic space probe developed by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and launched November 1996. MGS was a global mapping mission that examined the entire planet, from the ionosphere down through the atmosphere to the surface. [2] As part of the larger Mars
The Long March 4C , also known as the Chang Zheng 4C , CZ-4C and LM-4C , previously designated Long March 4B-II , is a Chinese orbital launch vehicle . It is launched from the Jiuquan , Taiyuan , and Xichang Satellite Launch Centers , and consists of 3 stages. Long March 4C vehicles have been used t
#9 STS-33
STS-33 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission, during which Space Shuttle Discovery deployed a payload for the United States Department of Defense (DoD). It was the 32nd shuttle mission overall, the ninth flight of Discovery , the fifth shuttle mission in support of the DoD, the seventh post- Space Shuttl
#10 Skylab 4
Skylab 4 (also SL-4 and SLM-3 [2] ) was the third crewed Skylab mission and placed the third and final crew aboard the first American space station . Third crewed mission to Skylab Skylab 4 The final view of Skylab, from the departing mission 4 crew, with Earth in the background Operator NASA COSPAR
#11 Kosmos 2413
Kosmos 2413 ( Russian : Космос 2413 meaning Cosmos 2413 ) is one of a set of three Russian military satellites launched in 2004 as part of the GLONASS satellite navigation system. It was launched with Kosmos 2411 and Kosmos 2412 . NORAD apparently call this satellite Kosmos 2411, and instead call Ko
#12 USA-85
USA-85 , also known as GPS IIA-7 , GPS II-16 and GPS SVN-32 , was an American navigation satellite which formed part of the Global Positioning System . It was the seventh of nineteen Block IIA GPS satellites to be launched. USA-85 Names Navstar 2A-07 GPS IIA-7 GPS II-16 GPS SVN-32 Mission type Navig
Prichal nodal module also known as Uzlovoy Module or UM ( Russian : Узловой Модуль "Причал" , Nodal Module Berth ) [1] is a Russian spacecraft which is part of the International Space Station (ISS). It was approved in 2011 and was launched on 24 November 2021, at 13:06:35 UTC , atop Progress M-UM ,
#14 Miniature Sensor Technology Integration-3
Miniature Sensor Technology Integration-3 ( MSTI-3 ) was a technology demonstration satellite operated by the United States Air Force . It was equipped with two infrared cameras and one visible light camera, designed to survey Earth's surface features and characterize their appearance in infrared wa
#15 Progress M-33
Progress M-33 ( Russian : Прогресс M-33 ) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in November 1996 to resupply the Mir space station. Russian cargo spacecraft Progress M-33 A Progress-M spacecraft Mission type Mir resupply COSPAR ID 1996-066A SATCAT no. 24633 [1] Spacecr
#16 STS-5
STS-5 was the fifth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the fifth flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia . It launched on November 11, 1982, and landed five days later on November 16, 1982. STS-5 was the first Space Shuttle mission to deploy communications satellites into orbit, and the first officially "o
#17 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
The Pioneer Venus Orbiter , also known as Pioneer Venus 1 or Pioneer 12 , was a mission to Venus conducted by the United States as part of the Pioneer Venus project . Launched in May 1978 atop an Atlas-Centaur rocket, the spacecraft was inserted into an elliptical orbit around Venus on December 4, 1
#19 Kosmos 605
Kosmos 605 ( Russian: Космос 605 ), or Bion 1 , was a Bion satellite . Kosmos 605 was the first of eleven Bion satellites. Soviet spacecraft aimed at biological experiments in space Kosmos 605 / Bion 1 Names Bion 1 Biocosmos 1 Biokosmos 1 Mission type Bioscience Operator Institute of Biomedical Prob
SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 1 was the first orbital spaceflight of the Dragon cargo spacecraft , and the second overall flight of the Falcon 9 rocket manufactured by SpaceX . It was also the first demonstration flight for NASA 's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. [4] The primary