langs: 20 октября [ru] / october 20 [en] / 20. oktober [de] / 20 octobre [fr] / 20 ottobre [it] / 20 de octubre [es]
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Randolph James "Komrade" [2] [3] Bresnik (born September 11, 1967) is a retired officer in the United States Marine Corps and an active NASA astronaut . [4] A Marine Aviator by trade, Bresnik was selected as a member of NASA Astronaut Group 19 in May 2004. [5] He first launched to space on STS-129 ,
David Saint-Jacques OQ FRCGS ( in Quebec : [davɪd sẽɪ̯̃nʒã(ŋ)k̚] , French pronunciation: [david sɛ̃ʒak] ; born January 6, 1970) [2] is a Canadian astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). He is also an astrophysicist , engineer , and a physician . Canadian engineer, astrophysicist, physici
Pavel Vladimirovich Vinogradov ( Russian : Павел Владимирович Виноградов ; born 31 August 1953 in Magadan , USSR ) is a cosmonaut and former commander of the International Space Station . As of May 2013, he has flown into space three times, aboard Mir and the International Space Station , and is one
Julie Payette CC CMM COM CQ CD ( French pronunciation: [ʒyli pajɛt] ; born October 20, 1963) is a Canadian engineer, scientist and former astronaut who served from 2017 to 2021 as Governor General of Canada , the 29th since Canadian Confederation . [1] [2] [3] 29th governor general of Canada, fo
#5 Yang Liwei
Yang Liwei ( simplified Chinese : 杨利伟 ; traditional Chinese : 楊利偉 ; pinyin : Yáng Lìwěi ; lit. ' Yang Benefit-Greatness' ) (born 21 June 1965) is a major general, military pilot, and People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonaut . In October 2003, he became the first person sent into sp
Kent Vernon "Rommel" Rominger (born August 7, 1956) is an American former astronaut , former NASA Chief of the Astronaut Office at Johnson Space Center , and a captain in the United States Navy . Rominger holds the Space Shuttle Orbiter flight time record with 1610 hours. [1] He joined ATK Launch Sy
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
Shannon Walker (born June 4, 1965) is an American physicist and a NASA astronaut selected in 2004. She launched on her first mission into space on June 25, 2010, onboard Soyuz TMA-19 and spent over 163 days in space. [1] American scientist and NASA astronaut For the rugby union and rugby league play
#9 Albert Sacco
Albert Sacco Jr. (born May 3, 1949) is an American chemical engineer who flew as a Payload Specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia on Shuttle mission STS-73 in 1995. American chemical engineer (born 1949) Albert Sacco Jr. Born ( 1949-05-03 ) 3 May 1949 (age 73) Boston , Massachusetts Nationality
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
#11 Takuya Onishi
Takuya Onishi ( 大西 卓哉 , Ōnishi Takuya , born 1975) is a Japanese astronaut selected for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ( JAXA ) in 2009. [1] He spent four months on board the International Space Station in 2016. Japanese engineer, commercial pilot and astronaut from JAXA Takuya Onishi Born (
Fred Weldon Leslie is an American scientist who flew on the NASA STS-73 Space Shuttle mission as a payload specialist . American astronaut Fred Weldon Leslie Born ( 1951-12-19 ) 19 December 1951 (age 70) Ancón , Panama Nationality American Occupation Scientist Space career NASA Payload Specialist
#13 Joseph M. Acaba
Joseph Michael "Joe" Acabá (born May 17, 1967) is a Puerto Rican educator , hydrogeologist , and NASA astronaut . [1] [2] In May 2004 he became the first person of Puerto Rican heritage to be named as a NASA astronaut candidate, when he was selected as a member of NASA Astronaut Training Group 19. [
#14 Charles Duke
Charles Moss Duke Jr. (born October 3, 1935) is an American former astronaut , United States Air Force (USAF) officer and test pilot . As lunar module pilot of Apollo 16 in 1972, he became the tenth and youngest person to walk on the Moon , at age 36 years and 201 days. [note 1] For the British Labo
#15 Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov
Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov ( Russian : Владимир Георгиевич Титов ; born 1 January 1947 in Sretensk , Zabaykalsky Krai , Russia) is a retired Russian Air Force Colonel and former cosmonaut . He has participated in four spaceflight missions. The catastrophic explosion of a Soyuz rocket in 1983 led to
#16 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)
#1 South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum
The South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum (SYAM) is a Volunteer led museum located at Lakeside in Doncaster , South Yorkshire , England . It occupies the former site of the Royal Air Force Station, RAF Doncaster . The museum occupies the last remaining original buildings from RAF Doncaster in the shape of
Silent Wings Museum , "The Legacy of The World War II Glider Pilots," is a museum in Lubbock, Texas . The museum is housed in the former tower and terminal building of Lubbock's airport during the 1950s, and 1960s. Historical museum in Lubbock County, Texas Silent Wings Museum Front entrance Silent
#1 Luna 19
Luna 19 (a.k.a. Lunik 19 ) (E-8-LS series), was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program . Luna 19 extended the systematic study of lunar gravitational fields and location of mascons (mass concentrations). It also studied the lunar radiation environment, the gamma-active lunar surface, and the
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
Progress MS-17 ( Russian : Прогресс МC-17 ), Russian production No. 446, identified by NASA as Progress 78P , was a Progress spaceflight operated by Roscosmos to resupply the International Space Station (ISS). This was the 169th flight of a Progress spacecraft. 2021 Russian resupply spaceflight to t
#4 Discoverer 6
Discoverer 6 , also known as Corona 9003 , [1] : 236 was an American optical reconnaissance satellite launched on 19 August 1959 at 19:24:44 GMT, the third of ten operational flights of the Corona KH-1 spy satellite series. Though the spacecraft was orbited successfully, the onboard camera cease
Progress M-43 ( Russian : Прогресс M-43 ) was a Russian unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in October 2000 to resupply the Mir space station. Russian cargo spacecraft Progress M-43 A Progress-M spacecraft Mission type Mir resupply COSPAR ID 2000-064A SATCAT no. 26570 [1] Spacecra
#6 Kosmos 31
Kosmos 31 ( Russian : Космос 31 meaning Cosmos 31 ), also known as DS-MT No.2 was a technology demonstration satellite which was launched by the Soviet Union in 1964 as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik programme. Its primary mission was to demonstrate an electric gyrodyne orientation system . [3]
#7 Kosmos 1247
Kosmos 1247 ( Russian : Космос 1247 meaning Cosmos 1247 ) was a Soviet US-K missile early warning satellite which was launched in 1981 as part of the Soviet military's Oko programme. The satellite was designed to identify missile launches using optical telescopes and infrared sensors . [2] Kosmos 12
#8 STS-120
STS-120 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) that launched on 23 October 2007 from the Kennedy Space Center , Florida. [5] The mission is also referred to as ISS-10A by the ISS program. STS-120 delivered the Harmony module and reconfigured a portion of the station in
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 ,
#10 STS-58
STS-58 was a NASA mission flown by Space Shuttle Columbia launched from Kennedy Space Center , Florida , on 18 October 1993. The missions was primarily devoted to experiments concerning the physiological effects in space . This was the first in-flight use of the "Portable In-flight Landing Operation
#11 Kosmos 48
Kosmos 48 ( Russian : Космос 48 meaning Cosmos 48 ) or Zenit-2 No.24 was a Soviet , first generation, low resolution, optical film-return reconnaissance satellite launched in 1964. A Zenit-2 spacecraft, Kosmos 48 was the twenty-third of eighty-one such satellites to be launched [3] and had a mass of
#12 Venera 9
Venera 9 ( Russian : Венера-9 , lit. ' Venus-9 ' ), manufacturer's designation: 4V-1 No. 660 , [3] was a Soviet uncrewed space mission to Venus . It consisted of an orbiter and a lander. It was launched on June 8, 1975, at 02:38:00 UTC and had a mass of 4,936 kilograms (10,882 lb) . [4] The or
#13 Soyuz 29
Soyuz 29 ( Russian : Союз 29 , Union 29 ) was a 1978 crewed Soviet space mission to the Salyut 6 space station. [2] It was the fifth mission, the fourth successful docking, and the second long-duration crew for the orbiting station. Commander Vladimir Kovalyonok and flight engineer Aleksandr Ivanche
#14 Kosmos 690
Kosmos 690 (in Russian : Бион 2 , Космос 690 ), or Bion 2 , was a Bion satellite launched by the Soviet Union . Soviet spacecraft aimed at biological experiments in space Kosmos 690 / Bion 2 Bion spacecraft Names Бион 2 Космос 690 Bion 2 Biocosmos 2 Biokosmos 2 Mission type Bioscience Operator Insti
#15 STS-73
STS-73 was a Space Shuttle program mission, during October–November 1995, on board the Space Shuttle Columbia . The mission was the second mission for the United States Microgravity Laboratory. The crew, who spent 16 days in space, were broken up into 2 teams, the red team and the blue team. The mis
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
#17 MetOp
Metop ( Met eorological Op erational satellite) is a series of three polar-orbiting meteorological satellites developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and operated by the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT). The satellites form the space segment com
#18 Progress 18
Progress 18 ( Russian : Прогресс 18 ) was a Soviet uncrewed Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in October 1983 to resupply the Salyut 7 space station. Soviet unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft Progress 18 A Progress 7K-TG spacecraft Mission type Salyut 7 resupply COSPAR ID 1983-106A SATCA
#19 Double Asteroid Redirection Test
Double Asteroid Redirection Test ( DART ) is a NASA space mission aimed at testing a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects (NEOs). Launched from Earth in November 2021, the mission will deliberately crash a space probe into the minor-planet moon Dimorphos of the double asteroid Didy
#20 Soyuz TM-22
Soyuz TM-22 was a Soyuz spaceflight to the Soviet space station Mir . [1] It launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome Launch Pad 1 on September 3, 1995. [1] After two days of free flight, the crew docked with Mir to become Mir Principal Expedition 20 and Euromir 95. [2] Mir 20 was a harbinger of the multin