langs: 4 октября [ru] / october 4 [en] / 4. oktober [de] / 4 octobre [fr] / 4 ottobre [it] / 4 de octubre [es]
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Leroy Gordon " Gordo " Cooper Jr. (March 6, 1927 – October 4, 2004) was an American aerospace engineer , test pilot , United States Air Force pilot , and the youngest of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury , the first human space program of the United States. Cooper learned to fly as
Roger Bruce Chaffee ( / ˈ tʃ æ f iː / ; February 15, 1935 – January 27, 1967) was an American naval officer , aviator and aeronautical engineer who was a NASA astronaut in the Apollo program . American astronaut, naval aviator and aeronautical engineer Roger B. Chaffee Chaffee in 1964 Born Roger Bru
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
#4 John Glenn
John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American Marine Corps aviator , engineer , astronaut , businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space, and the first American to orbit the Earth , circling it three times in 1962. Following his retirement from NASA
#5 James Irwin
James Benson Irwin (March 17, 1930 – August 8, 1991) was an American astronaut , aeronautical engineer , test pilot , and a United States Air Force pilot . He served as Apollo Lunar Module pilot for Apollo 15 , the fourth human lunar landing. He was the eighth person to walk on the Moon and the fi
#6 Alan Shepard
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut , naval aviator , test pilot , and businessman. In 1961, he became the second person and the first American to travel into space, and in 1971, he walked on the Moon . American astronaut (1923–1998), first Ameri
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
#8 Brian Binnie
William Brian Binnie (April 26, 1953 – September 15, 2022) was a United States Navy officer and one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne , the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites and flown from 2003 to 2004. US Navy officer and test pilot (1953–2022) For the curler, see Brian Binni
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov ( Russian : Влади́мир Миха́йлович Комаро́в , IPA: [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ kəmɐˈrof] ; 16 March 1927 – 24 April 1967) was a Soviet test pilot , aerospace engineer, and cosmonaut. In October 1964, he commanded Voskhod 1 , the first spaceflight to carry more than one
#10 Vanessa O'Brien
Vanessa Audi Rhys O'Brien (born 2 December 1964) is a British and American mountaineer, sub-orbital spaceflight participant, explorer, author and former business executive. [2] On 4 August 2022, Vanessa became the first woman to complete the Explorers’ Extreme Trifecta – reaching extremes on land, s
Gregory Thomas Linteris , Ph.D. (born October 4, 1957 in Englewood, New Jersey ) is an American scientist who flew as a payload specialist on two NASA Space Shuttle missions in 1997. Gregory Thomas Linteris Born ( 1957-10-04 ) October 4, 1957 (age 64) Demarest, New Jersey Nationality American Occu
#12 Fred Haise
Fred Wallace Haise Jr. ( / h eɪ z / HAYZ ; [1] born November 14, 1933) is an American former NASA astronaut , engineer , fighter pilot with the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force , and a test pilot . He is one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon , having flown as Lunar Module Pilot on Apol
#13 Scott Carpenter
Malcolm Scott Carpenter (May 1, 1925 – October 10, 2013) was an American naval officer and aviator , test pilot , aeronautical engineer , astronaut , and aquanaut . He was one of the Mercury Seven astronauts selected for NASA 's Project Mercury in April 1959. Carpenter was the second American (after
Richard Alan Searfoss (June 5, 1956 – September 29, 2018) was an American aviator who was United States Air Force colonel , NASA astronaut and test pilot . [2] Richard A. Searfoss Born ( 1956-06-05 ) June 5, 1956 Mount Clemens , Michigan , U.S. Died September 29, 2018 (2018-09-29) (aged 62) Tehach
#15 Sergey Prokopyev (cosmonaut)
Sergey Valerievich Prokopyev ( Russian : Серге́й Вале́рьевич Проко́пьев ; born 19 February 1975) is a Russian cosmonaut. On 6 June 2018 he launched on his first flight into space aboard Soyuz MS-09 and spent 197 days in space as a flight engineer on Expedition 56 / 57 . He is currently in space, hav
Donald L. Mallick (born October 4, 1930) is an American former pilot at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center from 1963 to 1981. He later became the deputy chief for the Dryden Aircraft Operations Division . [1] Donald L. Mallick Born October 4, 1930 ( 1930-10-04 ) (age 91) Sewickley, Pennsylva
#17 Sunita Williams
Sunita Lyn Williams (born September 19, 1965) is an American astronaut and United States Navy officer who formerly held the records for most spacewalks by a woman (seven) and most spacewalk time for a woman (50 hours, 40 minutes). [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Williams was assigned to the International Sp
#18 Mike Massimino
Michael James Massimino [3] / ˌ m æ s ɪ ˈ m iː n oʊ / (born August 19, 1962) [4] is an American professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University and a former NASA astronaut . He is the senior advisor of space programs at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum . American astronaut and enginee
Karl Gordon Henize ( / ˈ h ɛ n aɪ z / ; [1] October 17, 1926 – October 5, 1993) was an American astronomer , space scientist , NASA astronaut , and professor at Northwestern University . He was stationed at several observatories around the world, including McCormick Observatory , Lamont-Hussey Obser
Andrew Jay "Drew" Feustel ( / ˈ f ɔɪ s t əl / ; born August 25, 1965) is an American/Canadian NASA astronaut and geophysicist . Following several years working as a geophysicist, Feustel was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in July 2000. He is the veteran of 3 space flights with NASA. [3]
#1 Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park
Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in Dayton, Ohio that commemorates three important historical figures — Wilbur Wright , Orville Wright , and poet Paul Laurence Dunbar — and their work in the Miami Valley . National Historical Park of the U
#2 Imperial War Museum Duxford
Imperial War Museum Duxford is a branch of the Imperial War Museum near Duxford in Cambridgeshire , England. Britain's largest aviation museum , [2] Duxford houses the museum's large exhibits, including nearly 200 aircraft , military vehicles, artillery and minor naval vessels in seven main exhibiti
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
#1 Clementine 2
Clementine 2 was a proposed asteroid -interception mission that was intended to fly by two near-Earth asteroids , 433 Eros and 4179 Toutatis planned by NASA . [1] The probe impact at Toutatis was needed to obtain the dynamic strength of surface material and data on the properties of the regolith and
Progress M-24 ( Russian : Прогресс М-24 ) was a Russian uncrewed cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1994 to resupply the Mir space station; [1] causing minor damage to the station as the result of a collision during a failed attempt to dock. Progress M-24 A Progress-M spacecraft Mission type Mir
#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
Progress MS-09 ( Russian : Прогресс МC-09 ), identified by NASA as Progress 70P , was a Progress spaceflight operated by Roscosmos to resupply the International Space Station (ISS). This was the 161st flight of a Progress spacecraft. 2018 Russian resupply spaceflight to the ISS Progress MS-09 Progre
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
Vanguard TV-1 , also called Vanguard Test Vehicle-One , was the second sub-orbital test flight of a Vanguard rocket as part of the Project Vanguard . Vanguard TV-1 followed the successful launch of Vanguard TV-0 a one-stage rocket launched in December 1956. Vanguard TV-1 The launch of the Vanguard T
#7 STS-68
STS-68 was a human spaceflight mission using Space Shuttle Endeavour that launched from Kennedy Space Center , Florida on 30 September 1994. 1994 American crewed spaceflight STS-68 SIR-C in Endeavour ' s payload bay Names Space Transportation System -65 Mission type Radar imaging Operator NASA COSPA
#8 Soyuz TM-13
Soyuz TM-13 was the 13th expedition to Mir space station. [1] Lasting from October 1991 to March 1992, the mission included cosmonauts from Austria and the soon-to-be independent region of Kazakhstan , as the Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991. The launch ceremony at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in
#9 Mariner 1
Mariner 1 , built to conduct the first American planetary flyby of Venus , was the first spacecraft of NASA 's interplanetary Mariner program . Developed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory , and originally planned to be a purpose-built probe launched summer 1962, Mariner 1's design was changed when the Ce
#10 Explorer 1
Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States in 1958 and was part of the U.S. participation in the International Geophysical Year (IGY). The mission followed the first two satellites the previous year; the Soviet Union 's Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2 , beginning the Cold War Space Rac
#11 Long March 4C
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
#12 Apollo 8
Apollo 8 (December 21–27, 1968) was the first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon . The crew orbited the Moon ten times without landing, and then departed safely back to Earth . [1] [2] [3] These three astronauts — Frank Borman , James Lovell
#13 TechEdSat
Technology Education Satellite ( TechEdSat ) is a successful nano-sat flight series conducted from the NASA Ames Research Center in collaboration with numerous universities (San Jose State University, University of Idaho, University of California, University of Minnesota, Smith College). While one o
#14 Shenzhou 6
Shenzhou 6 ( Chinese : 神舟六号 ; pinyin : Shénzhōu lìuhào ) was the second human spaceflight of the Chinese space program , launched on October 12, 2005 on a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center . The Shenzhou spacecraft carried a crew of Fèi Jùnlóng (费俊龙) and Niè Hǎishèng (聂海胜
#15 F-1 (satellite)
F-1 is a CubeSat built by FSpace laboratory at FPT University , in Hanoi , Vietnam , in partnership with Angstrom Space Technology Center (ASTC), Uppsala University , Sweden and Nanoracks LLC, United States. Its mission is to train young engineers and students about aerospace engineering and evaluat
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 ,
#17 Mariner 2
Mariner 2 ( Mariner-Venus 1962 ), an American space probe to Venus , was the first robotic space probe to conduct a successful planetary encounter. The first successful spacecraft in the NASA Mariner program , it was a simplified version of the Block I spacecraft of the Ranger program and an exact c
#18 Apollo 4
Apollo 4 (November 9, 1967), also known as SA-501 , was the uncrewed first test flight of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the rocket that eventually took astronauts to the Moon . The space vehicle was assembled in the Vehicle Assembly Building , and was the first to be launched from Kennedy Space Cente
#19 Mercury-Atlas 8
Mercury-Atlas 8 ( MA-8 ) was the fifth United States crewed space mission , part of NASA 's Mercury program . Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr. , orbited the Earth six times in the Sigma 7 spacecraft on October 3, 1962, in a nine-hour flight focused mainly on technical evaluation rather than on scient
RAIKO ( Japanese : 雷鼓 , literally thunder drum ) is a Japanese satellite which was built and operated by Tohoku and Wakayama Universities. A two-unit CubeSat , RAIKO was deployed from the International Space Station (ISS) on 4 October 2012, having been launched on 21 July 2012. Japanese satellite Th