the far side of the Moon. Timeline of spaceflight Bergin, Chris. "NASASpaceFlight.com". Clark, Stephen. "Spaceflight Now". Kelso, T.S. "Satellite Catalog...

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In the year 2024, for the fourth year in a row, new world records in spaceflight were set for both orbital launch attempts and successful orbital launches...

or without humans on board. Most spaceflight is uncrewed and conducted mainly with spacecraft such as satellites in orbit around Earth, but also includes...

(58 m/s²). Payload 1,134 kilograms (2,500 lb). Little Joe Boilerplate (spaceflight) "Historical Snapshot. Little Joe Launch Vehicle". Boeing. Retrieved...

human spaceflight programs of the 20th century – Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and the Space Shuttle. Shepard became the first American to enter space in 1961...

The following is an outline of 1985 in spaceflight. Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle designation: OV‑104) is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle...

boilerplate Mercury capsule from Cape Canaveral, Florida on 9 September 1959. The purposes of the Big Joe 1 were to test the Mercury spacecraft ablative...

Afterwards, there was only one more failure in the Jupiter program, AM-23 on 15 September 1959, which developed a leak in a nitrogen bottle that led to depressurization...

adverse effects of space on humans. The flight was launched December 4, 1959, at 11:15 a.m. ET from Wallops Island, Virginia, United States. Little Joe...

orbital launch. Vanguard rockets were used by Project Vanguard from 1957 to 1959. Of the eleven Vanguard rockets which the project attempted to launch, three...

1959 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1959. 1959 (MCMLIX) was...

Spaceflight in 2025 promises to follow the 2020s trend of record breaking orbital launches (with at least 300 expected) and increased developments in...

Rocket Lag. Atlas Firing Keynotes U.S. Missile Build-Up, 1959/01/29 (1959). Universal Newsreel. 1959. Retrieved February 22, 2012. "Transit 1B - NSSDC ID:...

an altitude record for crewed spaceflight that held until Apollo 8, the first crewed mission to the Moon, exceeded it. In the early 1970s Lockheed studied...

13 April 1959. While Soviet agents may have recovered the vehicle, it is more likely that the capsule landed in water and sank. Spaceflight portal Cold...

Grand Central 1KS52000 rocket motor, weighed 460 kg (1,010 lb). On 21 August 1959, LJ-1 was being prepared for launch from the Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops...

uncrewed rocket launched as part of NASA's Mercury program on November 4, 1959. This flight, a repeat of the Little Joe 1 (LJ-1) launch, was to test a launch...

Joe was a solid-fueled booster rocket used by NASA for eight launches from 1959 to 1961 from Wallops Island, Virginia to test the launch escape system and...

memo explaining that the cloud was the result of a military operation. Spaceflight portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to Thor Agena. Krebs, Gunter...

in 1960. A model of the Beacon package installed in the final stage of a Juno rocket can be found at the National Air and Space Museum. Spaceflight portal...

1959, which was intended as a lunar impactor mission. Luna 1 instead passed within 5,995 kilometres (3,725 mi) of the Moon's surface 4 January 1959,...

Several significant events in spaceflight occurred in 2009, including Iran conducting its first indigenous orbital launch, the first Swiss satellite being...

This article outlines notable events occurring in 2006 in spaceflight, including major launches and EVAs. 2006 saw Brazil, Iran, and Sweden all get a national...

The following is an outline of 1993 in spaceflight. STS-61 was NASA's first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, and the fifth flight of the Space...

orbital and suborbital spaceflight launches and events. For an overview of spaceflight in the near future, see 2020s in spaceflight. The United Kingdom,...

Human spaceflight programs have been conducted, started, or planned by multiple countries and companies. Until the 21st century, human spaceflight programs...

This article outlines notable events occurring in 1996 in spaceflight, including major launches and EVAs. Bergin, Chris (16 July 2008). "Sea Launch lofts...

This article outlines notable events occurring in 1994 in spaceflight, including major launches and EVAs. On January 25, 1994, Clementine was launched...

The year 2008 contained several significant events in spaceflight, including the first flyby of Mercury by a spacecraft since 1975, the discovery of water...