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SpaceX CRS-1 mission
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NASA and SpaceX have announced October 7, 2012 as the target launch date for SpaceXs first resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The launch of the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft is scheduled for 8:34 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral, Florida. October 8 is the backup date. The...
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Coverage Set For Next Soyuz Space Station Crew Rotation Over the next several weeks, NASA Television will provide coverage of the departure of three crew members from the International Space Station and prelaunch, launch and arrival activities of three new residents. Coverage will begin Wedne...
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The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle has its maiden "flight" on February 18, 1977 atop a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) Read more
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KOUNOTORI 3 revealed to the media at TNSC On June 1 (Fri.), the H-II Transfer Vehicle "KOUNOTORI 3" (HTV3, a cargo transporter to the International Space Station) was revealed to the media at the Spacecraft and Fairing Assembly Building 2 at the Tanegashima Space Centre. [url=http://...
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Luna 16
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Luna 16 (Ye-8-5 series) was an unmanned space mission, part of the Soviet Luna program. Luna 16 was the first robotic probe to land on the Moon and return a sample of lunar soil to Earth. Read more
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STS-47
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STS-47 was the 50th Space Shuttle mission of the program, as well as the second mission of Space Shuttle Endeavour. The mission mainly involved conducting experiments in life and material sciences. Launch date: 12 September 1992 Read more
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STS-48 mission
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STS-48 was a Space Shuttle mission that launched on 12 September 1991, from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida. The orbiter was Space Shuttle Discovery. The primary payload was the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite. The mission landed on 18 September at 12:38 am at Edwards Air Force Base on runway 22...
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Viking 2 mission
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The Viking 2 mission was part of the American Viking program to Mars, and consisted of an orbiter and a lander essentially identical to that of the Viking 1 mission. The Viking 2 lander operated on the surface for 1,281 Mars days and was turned off on 11 April 1980 when its batteries failed. The orbiter w...
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Luna 18
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Luna 18 (Ye-8-5 series) was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 18. Luna 18 was placed in an earth parking orbit after it was launched on 2 September, 1971, and was then sent towards the Moon. On September 7, 1971, it entered lunar orbit. The spacecraft completed 85 communi...
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Luna 11 mission
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Luna 11 (E-6LF series) was an unmanned space mission of the Soviet Union's Luna program. It is also called Lunik 11. Luna 11 was launched towards the Moon from an earth-orbiting platform on the August 24, 1966, and entered lunar orbit on 27 August. Read more
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Gemini 5
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Gemini 5 (officially Gemini V) was a 1965 manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. Launch date August 21, 1965, 13:59:59 UTC Read more
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Sputnik 5
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50th Anniversary (1960), Sputnik 5 Launch (Carried Dogs Belka & Strelka) Korabl-Sputnik 2, also known as Sputnik 5 in the West, was a Soviet artificial satellite, and the third test flight of the Vostok spacecraft. Ot was the first spaceflight to send animals into orbit and return them safely b...
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Pioneer 7 mission
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Pioneer 7 was a space probe in the Pioneer program. August 17, 1966 Launched from Cape Canaveral into solar orbit with a mean distance of 1.1 AU. March 20, 1986 Flew within 12.3 million kilometres of Halley's Comet and monitored the interaction between the cometary hydrogen tail and the solar wind. I...
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Vostok 4
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Vostok 4 (Russian: BcT-4, Orient 4 or East 4) was a mission in the Soviet space program. It was launched on August 12, 1962, a day after Vostok 3 with cosmonaut Pavel Popovich on board - the first time that more than one manned spacecraft were in orbit at the same time. The two Vostok capsules came wit...
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Project Morpheus
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NASAs robotic Project Morpheus aims for the Moon Project Morpheus is constructing a lunar landing craft that uses an innovative fuel which combines liquid oxygen with methane, rather than the far more dangerous liquid hydrogen used in the past. The craft underwent a successful test firing of the l...
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