langs: 8 сентября [ru] / september 8 [en] / 8. september [de] / 8 septembre [fr] / 8 settembre [it] / 8 de septiembre [es]
days: september 5 / september 6 / september 7 / september 8 / september 9 / september 10 / september 11
#1 Scott Altman
Scott Douglas "Scooter" Altman (born August 15, 1959) is a retired United States Navy Captain and naval aviator , engineer , test pilot and former NASA astronaut . He is a veteran of four Space Shuttle missions. His fourth mission on STS-125 was the last servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telesco
Michael T. Strahan ( / ˈ s t r eɪ h æ n / STRAY -han ; born November 21, 1971) [1] is an American television personality, journalist, and former professional American football player. He played his entire 15-year professional career as a defensive end for the New York Giants of the National Football
Terrence Wade Wilcutt (born October 31, 1949) is a United States Marine Corps officer and a former NASA astronaut . He is a veteran of four Space Shuttle missions. Wilcutt was NASA's Chief of Safety and Mission Assurance, until his retirement from NASA in December 2020. [1] American astronaut Terren
#4 Oleg Grigoriyevich Kononenko
Oleg Grigoriyevich Kononenko (August 16, 1938 – September 8, 1980) was a member of Soviet cosmonaut group LII-1. He was born in the village of Samarskoye, in Rostov , Russia , then part of the Soviet Union. [1] He graduated from Zhukovsky Air Force Institute in 1975. [2] [3] On July 12, 1977, he was
Sergey Aleksandrovich Zhukov ( Russian : Сергей Александрович Жуков ; born 9 September 1956 in Dzhezkazgan , Kazakh SSR , USSR, now Jezkazgan, Kazakhstan ) is a retired Russian cosmonaut first selected in 2003 . He retired from the cosmonaut corps before completing any spaceflights. Russian cosmonau
Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko ( Russian : Юрий Иванович Маленченко ; born December 22, 1961) is a retired Russian cosmonaut . Malenchenko became the first person to marry in space, on 10 August 2003, when he married Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who was in Texas , while he was 240 miles (390 km) over New Zeal
#7 Nie Haisheng
Nie Haisheng (born 13 October 1964 [2] ) is a major general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force (PLASSF) in active service as an taikonaut and the third commander (unit chief) of the PLA Astronaut Corps (PLAAC). He was a PLA Air Force fighter pilot and director of navigat
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova ( Russian : Валентина Владимировна Терешкова , IPA: [vɐlʲɪnʲˈtʲinə vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvnə tʲɪrʲɪʂˈkovə] ( listen ) ; born 6 March 1937) is an engineer , member of the Russian State Duma , and former Soviet cosmonaut . She is known for being the first and youngest woman i
Daniel Christopher Burbank (born July 27, 1961) is a retired American astronaut and a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions. Burbank, a Captain in the United States Coast Guard , is the second Coast Guard astronaut after Bruce Melnick . American astronaut and a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions
#10 Robert Crippen
Robert Laurel Crippen (born September 11, 1937) is an American retired naval officer and aviator , test pilot , aerospace engineer , and retired astronaut . He traveled into space four times: as Pilot of STS-1 in April 1981, the first Space Shuttle mission; and as Commander of STS-7 in June 1983, ST
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dzhanibekov ( Russian : Владимир Александрович Джанибеков , born 13 May 1942) is a former cosmonaut who made five flights. Soviet general, pilot and cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov Владимир Джанибеков Vladimir Dzhanibekov in 1993 Born ( 1942-05-13 ) 13 May 1942 (age 80) Iska
Richard Alan "Rick" Mastracchio (born February 11, 1960) is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut . He has flown on three NASA Space Shuttle missions as a mission specialist in addition to serving as a Flight Engineer on the Soyuz TMA-11M ( Expedition 38 / Expedition 39 ) long duration miss
#13 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
#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
Kjeller Airport ( Norwegian : Kjeller flyplass ; ICAO : ENKJ ) is a military and general aviation airport located in Kjeller in Skedsmo in Viken county , Norway. Situated in the outskirts of Lillestrøm , it is 9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi) east northeast of Oslo , making it the airport located
#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
#3 NOAA-6
NOAA-6 , known as NOAA-A before launch, was an American operational weather satellite for use in the National Operational Environmental Satellite System (NOESS) and for the support of the Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP) during 1978-1984. The satellite design provided an economical and sta
#4 USA-207
USA-207 , [4] international COSPAR code 2009-047A , [5] also known as PAN , officially meaning Palladium At Night , [6] NEMESIS I, [7] or P360 [8] is a classified American SIGINT satellite, [7] which was launched in September 2009. The US government has not confirmed which of its intelligence agenci
#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 STS-133
STS-133 ( ISS assembly flight ULF5 ) [6] was the 133rd mission in NASA 's Space Shuttle program ; during the mission, Space Shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station . It was Discovery ' s 39th and final mission. The mission launched on 24 February 2011, and landed on 9 March 201
Progress M-64 ( Russian : Прогресс М-64 ), identified by NASA as Progress 29P , was a Progress spacecraft used to resupply the International Space Station . It was a Progress-M 11F615A55 spacecraft, with the serial number 364. Progress M-64 Progress M-64 after undocking from Zarya . Mission type ISS
The Mars Climate Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter ) was a 638-kilogram ( 1 407 lb ) [1] robotic space probe launched by NASA on December 11, 1998, to study the Martian climate , Martian atmosphere , and surface changes and to act as the communications relay in the Mars Surveyor '98
#10 SDS-1
The Small Demonstration Satellite ( SDS ) is a spacecraft or satellite which is built as part of a JAXA programme to develop and demonstrate technology for and through small satellites. One of the mid-term goals is also to demonstrate formation flying. SDS-1 launched aboard an H-IIA rocket on 23 Jan
#11 Kosmos 2468
Kosmos 2468 ( Russian : Космос 2468 meaning Cosmos 2468 ) is a Russian military communications satellite which was launched in 2010 by the Russian Space Forces . It was launched with Kosmos 2467 and a Gonets-M civilian communication satellite. Russian military communications satellite Kosmos 2468 Mi
#12 CoRoT
CoRoT (French: Co nvection, Ro tation et T ransits planétaires ; English: Co nvection, Ro tation and planetary T ransits) was a space telescope mission which operated from 2006 to 2013. The mission's two objectives were to search for extrasolar planets with short orbital periods, particularly those
#13 UBAKUSAT
UBAKUSAT was a Turkish nanosatellite that was developed by Istanbul Technical University . It was launched into space on board a Falcon-9 rocket in April 2018 and was deployed into its orbit from the International Space Station in May 2018. It was built as a technology demonstration and earth observ
#14 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
#15 AMC-1
AMC-1 was a geosynchronous communications satellite operated by SES S.A. , as part of the AMC fleet acquired from GE AMERICOM in 2001. It was a hybrid C-Band / Ku-band spacecraft currently located at 131° West, serving the Canada , United States , Mexico , and Caribbean . For the coastal minesweeper
#16 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
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
#18 Soyuz TMA-21
Soyuz TMA-21 ( "Gagarin" ) was a Soyuz flight to the International Space Station (ISS). It transported three members of the Expedition 27 crew to the ISS, and docked at the station on April 6, 2011. TMA-21 is the 109th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft, the first of which launched in 1967. The Soyuz rema
#19 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
#20 Apollo 12
Apollo 12 (November 14 – 24, 1969) was the sixth crewed flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon . It was launched on November 14, 1969, by NASA from the Kennedy Space Center , Florida . Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean perfor