langs: 12 сентября [ru] / september 12 [en] / 12. september [de] / 12 septembre [fr] / 12 settembre [it] / 12 de septiembre [es]
days: september 9 / september 10 / september 11 / september 12 / september 13 / september 14 / september 15
#1 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
Kalpana Chawla (17 March 1962 – 1 February 2003) was an Indian-born American astronaut and mechanical engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to go to space. [3] [4] She first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator. American astronau
James Hansen Newman , Ph.D. (born October 16, 1956) is an American physicist and a former NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions. American astronaut This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification . ( May 2022 ) James Hansen Newman Born ( 1956-10-16 ) Oc
Gennady Ivanovich Padalka ( Russian : Гeннадий Иванович Падалка ; born 21 June 1958 in Krasnodar , Soviet Union ) is a Russian Air Force officer and a Roscosmos cosmonaut . Padalka currently holds the world record for the most time spent in space , at 879 days. [1] [2] [3] He worked on both Mir and
Frank Lee Culbertson Jr. (born May 15, 1949) ( Capt , USN , Ret.) is an American former naval officer and aviator , test pilot , aerospace engineer , NASA astronaut , graduate of the US Naval Academy , and member of the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame . He served as the Commander of the Interna
Boris Borisovich Yegorov ( Russian : Борис Борисович Егоров ; 26 November 1937 – 12 September 1994) was a Soviet physician - cosmonaut who became the first physician to make a space flight. This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . ( Learn ho
Alexander Alexanderovich Misurkin ( Russian : Aлександр Aлександрович Мисуркин ) (born 23 September 1977), a major in the Russian Air Force , is a Russian cosmonaut , selected in 2006. He flew aboard Soyuz TMA-08M on 28 March 2013 as his first space mission, and launched on Soyuz MS-06 as his second
#8 Curtis Brown
Curtis Lee "Curt" Brown Jr. (born March 11, 1956) is a former NASA astronaut and retired United States Air Force colonel . [1] American astronaut For other people named Curtis Brown, see Curtis Brown (disambiguation) . Curtis L. Brown Jr. Born ( 1956-03-11 ) March 11, 1956 (age 66) Elizabethtown,
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer , and the first person to walk on the Moon . He was also a naval aviator , test pilot , and university professor. American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2012) For other uses, see Neil A
Mark Thomas Vande Hei (born November 10, 1966) is a retired United States Army officer and current NASA astronaut [2] who has served as a flight Engineer for Expedition 53 , 54 , 64 , 65 , and 66 on the International Space Station . [3] [4] American engineer and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei Born (
#11 Roger K. Crouch
Roger Keith Crouch (born September 12, 1940) is an American scientist and astronaut who flew as a payload specialist on two NASA Space Shuttle missions in 1997. American scientist and astronaut Roger Keith Crouch Born ( 1940-09-12 ) September 12, 1940 (age 81) Jamestown, Tennessee Nationality Amer
#12 Mark C. Lee
Mark Charles Lee USAF Colonel, (born August 14, 1952) is a former NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions. He retired from the Air Force and NASA on July 1, 2001. American astronaut This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification . ( November 2020 ) Mark
Sultan bin Salman Al Saud ( Arabic : سلطان بن سلمان آل سعود ; Sulṭān bin Salmān Āl Suʿūd ; born 27 June 1956) is a Saudi prince and former Royal Saudi Air Force pilot who flew aboard the American STS-51-G Space Shuttle mission as a payload specialist . He is the first member of a royal family to fly
#14 James Buchli
James Frederick Buchli (born June 20, 1945, in New Rockford, North Dakota ) is a retired United States Marine aviator and former NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions. NASA astronaut James F. Buchli Born ( 1945-06-20 ) June 20, 1945 (age 77) New Rockford, North Dakota , U.S. Statu
#15 Anousheh Ansari
Anousheh Ansari ( Persian : انوشه انصاری ; née Raissyan ; [2] born September 12, 1966) is an Iranian American engineer and co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems. Her previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI). The Ansari family i
Kenneth Stanley Reightler Jr. (born March 24, 1951) is a former NASA astronaut . [1] This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) This biography of a living person needs additional citatio
Richard Francis Gordon Jr. (October 5, 1929 – November 6, 2017) was an American naval officer and aviator , test pilot , and NASA astronaut , and an American football executive. He was one of 24 people to have flown to the Moon , as the command module pilot of the 1969 Apollo 12 mission, which orb
William Francis Readdy is a former Associate Administrator of the Office of Space Flight, at NASA Headquarters . [1] This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) This biography of a living
#19 Robert L. Gibson
Robert Lee "Hoot" Gibson (born October 30, 1946), ( Capt , USN , Ret.), is a former American naval officer and aviator , test pilot , and aeronautical engineer . A retired NASA astronaut , he also served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1992 to 1994. Today Gibson is active as a professional pil
#20 Andreas Mogensen
Andreas Enevold Mogensen (born 2 November 1976) is a Danish engineer and ESA astronaut . He was the first Dane to fly in space as part of the iriss programme. [2] Danish engineer and ESA astronaut Andreas E. Mogensen Mogensen in 2020 Born ( 1976-11-02 ) 2 November 1976 (age 45) [1] Copenhagen , De
Space Center Houston is a science museum that serves as the official visitor center of NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston. It has earned a place as a Smithsonian Affiliate museum in 2014. The organization is owned by NASA, and operated under a contract by the nonprofit Manned Spaceflight Education
The Comox Air Force Museum collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits artifacts relating to CFB Comox , its squadrons and its units. [1] The museum is located at the main gate of CFB Comox, located in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island , British Columbia . The museum opened its doors in the curr
#3 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
The Reynolds-Alberta Museum is an agricultural , industrial, and transportation museum in Wetaskiwin , Alberta , Canada. The museum is situated on an 89-hectare (220-acre) property containing the main museum building, an aviation display hangar, and its storage facility. Museum of transportation, av
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
The Jet Aircraft Museum is a charitable foundation aviation museum specializing in Canadian Forces jet aircraft. The museum is located at the London International Airport , Ontario , Canada . [1] [2] Aviation Museum in Ontario, Canada Jet Aircraft Museum Established 12 September 2009 Location London
#1 Luna 2
Luna 2 ( Russian : Луна 2 ), originally named the Second Soviet Cosmic Rocket and nicknamed Lunik 2 in contemporaneous media, was the sixth of the Soviet Union 's Luna programme spacecraft launched to the Moon , E-1 No.7 . It was the first spacecraft to reach the surface of the Moon , and the first
#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
Zvezda ( Russian : Звезда , meaning "star"), Salyut DOS-8 , also known as the Zvezda Service Module , is a module of the International Space Station (ISS). It was the third module launched to the station, and provided all of the station's life support systems , some of which are supplemented in the
#4 STS-108
STS-108 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour . Its primary objective was to deliver supplies to and help maintain the ISS. 2001 American crewed spaceflight to the ISS STS-108 Godwin on Endeavour ' s Canadarm during an EVA Names Space T
#5 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
#6 TIROS-N
TIROS-N satellite is the first of the TIROS-N series. It is a weather satellite launched on 13 October 1978. [2] It was designed to become operational during 2 years. Its mass is 734 kilograms. [2] Its perigee to Earth is 829 kilometers. Its apogee is 845 kilometers away from Earth. Its inclination
#7 Luna 16
Luna 16 was an uncrewed space mission , part of the Soviet Luna program . It was the first robotic probe to land on the Moon and return a sample of lunar soil to Earth. [3] [4] The 101 grams (3.56 ounces) sample was returned from Mare Fecunditatis . It represented the first successful lunar sample r
#8 PSLV-C4
PSLV-C4 was the fourth operational launch and overall seventh mission of the PSLV program. This launch was also the forty-eight launch by Indian Space Research Organisation since its first mission on 1 January 1962. The vehicle carried and injected India's first dedicated Meteorological satellite ,
#9 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
#10 USA-128
USA-128 , also known as GPS IIA-18 , GPS II-27 and GPS SVN-30 , is an American navigation satellite which forms part of the Global Positioning System . It was the eighteenth of nineteen Block IIA GPS satellites to be launched. USA-128 Names Navstar 2A-18 GPS IIA-18 GPS II-27 GPS SVN-30 Mission type
#11 Nilesat 102
Nilesat 102 is an Egyptian owned geosynchronous communications satellite that was launched by an Ariane 44LP rocket from Kourou , French Guiana on August 17, 2000, at 23:16 UTC by the European Space Agency . It was manufactured by the European company Matra Marconi Space ( Astrium ), and started off
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
#13 Progress 38
Progress 38 ( Russian : Прогресс 38 ) was a Soviet uncrewed Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in September 1988 to resupply the Mir space station. Progress 38 A Progress 7K-TG spacecraft Mission type Mir resupply COSPAR ID 1988-083A SATCAT no. 19486 [1] Spacecraft properties Spacecraft P
#14 Soyuz MS-06
Soyuz MS-06 was a Soyuz spaceflight which launched on 13 September 2017. [1] It transported three members of the Expedition 53 crew to the International Space Station . Soyuz MS-06 was the 135th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. The crew consisted of a Russian commander, and two American flight engineer
#15 XMM-Newton
XMM-Newton , also known as the High Throughput X-ray Spectroscopy Mission and the X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission , is an X-ray space observatory launched by the European Space Agency in December 1999 on an Ariane 5 rocket. It is the second cornerstone mission of ESA's Horizon 2000 programme. Named after
#16 Voyager 1
Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System and interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere . Launched 16 days after its twin Voyager 2 , Voyager 1 has been operating for 45 years and 1 month as of October 5
#17 SES-17
SES-17 , is a high throughput all electric geostationary communications satellite owned and operated by SES S.A. , and designed and manufactured by Thales Alenia Space . Launched on 24 October 2021 from Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG), in Kourou , French Guiana by an Ariane 5ECA launch vehicle , SES-1
#18 SOLRAD 8
The SOLRAD 8 , Explorer 30 or SE-A satellite was one of the NASA SOLRAD (Solar Radiation) program that began in 1960 to provide continuous coverage of solar radiation with a set of standard photometers . SOLRAD 8 was a spin-stabilized satellite oriented with its spin axis perpendicular to the sun-sa
#19 N-STAR c
N-STAR c , is a geostationary communications satellite originally ordered by NTT DoCoMo and later fully acquired by SKY Perfect JSAT Group . [5] [6] It was designed and manufactured by Lockheed Martin , which acted as prime, developed the payload and did the final integration and testing, and Orbita
#20 Kounotori 3
Kounotori 3 ( Japanese : こうのとり3号機 ; English: "white stork" [1] ), also known as HTV-3 , was the third flight of the Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle . It was launched on 21 July 2012 to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the H-IIB Launch Vehicle No. 3 (H-IIB F3) manufactured by Mits