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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
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
#3 Mike Mullane
Richard Michael Mullane (born September 10, 1945; Col , USAF , Ret.) is an engineer and Weapon Systems Officer, a retired USAF officer, and a former NASA astronaut . During his career, he flew as a mission specialist on STS-41-D , STS-27 , and STS-36 . American aerospace and weapons engineer and ast
#4 Leonid Kizim
Leonid Denisovich Kizim ( Russian : Леонид Денисович Кизим ; 5 August 1941 – 14 June 2010) was a Soviet cosmonaut . Soviet cosmonaut This article needs additional citations for verification . ( January 2010 ) Leonid Denisovich Kizim Born ( 1941-08-05 ) August 5, 1941 Krasnyi Lyman , Donetsk Oblast ,
Yevgeny Vasilyevich Khrunov ( Russian : Евге́ний Васи́льевич Хруно́в ; 10 September 1933 – 20 May 2000) [1] was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 5 / Soyuz 4 mission. [2] Soviet cosmonaut Yevgeny Vasilyevich Khrunov Born ( 1933-09-10 ) 10 September 1933 Tula Oblast , USSR Died 20 May 2000 (20
#6 Don Lind
Don Leslie Lind [1] (May 18, 1930 – August 30, 2022) was an American scientist, naval officer , aviator , and NASA astronaut . He graduated from the University of Utah with an undergraduate degree in physics in 1953. Following his military service obligation, he earned a PhD in high-energy nuclear p
Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II (born March 17, 1936) is an American former aviator , aeronautical engineer , test pilot , rear admiral in the United States Navy and astronaut who flew on the Apollo 16 , STS-4 and STS-51-C missions. American astronaut (born 1936) Ken Mattingly Mattingly in 1971 Born Tho
#8 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
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
#10 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
Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keāhole [3] ( IATA : KOA , ICAO : PHKO , FAA LID : KOA ) is the busiest airport on the Island of Hawai ʻ i . It is located in Kalaoa CDP , Hawai ʻ i County , Hawai ʻ i , United States, [4] near the town of Kailua-Kona . The airport serves leeward (wester
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
#1 STS-106
STS-106 was a 2000 Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis . 2000 American crewed spaceflight to the ISS STS-106 Malenchenko outside Zarya during an EVA Names Space Transportation System -99 Mission type ISS assembly Operator NASA COSPAR ID 2000
#2 STS-115
STS-115 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis . It was the first assembly mission to the ISS after the Columbia disaster , following the two successful Return to Flight missions, STS-114 and STS-121 . STS-115 launched from LC-39B at the
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
#4 STS-128
STS-128 ( ISS assembly flight 17A ) was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) that launched on August 28, 2009. Space Shuttle Discovery carried the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Leonardo as its primary payload. Leonardo contained a collection of experiments for study
#5 Ekspress-MD1
Ekspress-MD1 ( Russian : Экспресс-МД1 ), was a Russian geostationary communications satellite operated by Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) and designed and manufactured by Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center on the Yakhta satellite bus for RSCC's Ekspress series . It
#6 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
#7 Telstar
Telstar is the name of various communications satellites . The first two Telstar satellites were experimental and nearly identical. Telstar 1 launched on top of a Thor-Delta rocket on July 10, 1962. It successfully relayed through space the first television pictures, telephone calls, and telegraph i
#8 JCSAT-16
JCSAT-16 is a geostationary communications satellite operated by SKY Perfect JSAT Group and designed and manufactured by SSL on the SSL 1300 platform. [1] [7] It has a launch weight of 4,600 kg (10,100 lb) , a power production capacity of 8.5 kW and a 15-year design life. [5] Its payload is co
Resurs-DK No.1 , [7] also called Resurs-DK1 , was a commercial Earth observation satellite capable of transmitting high-resolution imagery (up to 0.9 m) to the ground stations as it passed overhead. The spacecraft was operated by NTs OMZ , the Russian Research Center for Earth Operative Monitoring.
#10 Intelsat 603
Intelsat 603 or IS-603 , previously named Intelsat VI F-3 , is a communications satellite operated by Intelsat . Launched in 1990, it was the second of five Intelsat VI satellites to be launched. The Intelsat VI series was constructed by Hughes Aircraft , based on the HS-389 satellite bus . [2] Geos
#11 Compass-1
Compass-1 (also known as Compass One ) is a German amateur CubeSat picosatellite , built and operated in the late 2000s by Aachen University of Applied Science . It was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation , aboard a PSLV rocket as a secondary payload to the CartoSat-2A primary spacecr
#12 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
#13 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
#14 Kounotori 8
Kounotori 8 ( こうのとり8号機 ) , also known as HTV-8 was the 8th flight of the H-II Transfer Vehicle , a robotic cargo spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station . It was launched on 24 September 2019, 16:05:05 UTC. [8] 2019 Japanese resupply spaceflight to the ISS Kounotori 8 H-II Transfer Ve
#15 Surveyor 5
Surveyor 5 was the fifth lunar lander of the American uncrewed Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon . Surveyor 5 landed on Mare Tranquillitatis in 1967. A total of 19,118 images were transmitted to Earth. [2] Surveyor 5 Surveyor model on Earth Mission type Lunar lander Operator N
#16 Soyuz TMA-12M
Soyuz TMA-12M was a 2014 flight to the International Space Station . It transported three members of the Expedition 39 crew to the International Space Station. TMA-12M was the 121st flight of a Soyuz spacecraft since the first in 1967 and the 38th Soyuz mission to the ISS. 2014 Russian crewed spacef
#17 NEE-02 Krysaor
NEE-02 Krysaor is an Ecuadorian technology demonstration satellite, and Ecuador's second satellite launched to space. Built by the Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency (EXA), it is a single-unit CubeSat nanosatellite . [3] Krysaor is a Pegasus-class spacecraft, a "twin" of Ecuador's first satellite, NEE
#18 Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1
Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1 or Gwangmyeongseong-1 ( Korean : 광명성 1호 , Hanja : 光明星 1號 , meaning Bright Star 1 ) was a satellite allegedly launched by North Korea on 31 August 1998. While the North Korean government claimed that the launch was successful, no objects were ever tracked in orbit from the launch, [1
#19 Progress M-65
Progress M-65 ( Russian : Прогресс М-65 ), identified by NASA as Progress 30P , was a Progress spacecraft used to resupply the International Space Station . It was a Progress-M 11F615A55 spacecraft, with the serial number 365. Progress M-65 Progress M-65 approaching the ISS . Mission type ISS resupp
#20 ABS-3A
ABS-3A is a communications satellite operated by ABS (formerly known as Asia Broadcast Satellite ), providing coverage in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. [2] It is positioned in geostationary orbit at 3° West, and offers C and Ku-band payload capacity to support video, data, mobil