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Explorer 35
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45th Anniversary of the Explorer 35 launch in 1967. Explorer 35 was a spin-stabilised spacecraft instrumented for interplanetary studies, at lunar distances, of the interplanetary plasma, magnetic field, energetic particles, and solar X rays. It was launched into an elliptical lunar orbi...
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Zond 3 spacecraft
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Today is the 45th Anniversary of the Zond 3 spacecraft launch. Zond 3, a member of the Soviet Zond program, was the first Zond spacecraft to successfully complete its mission (a Lunar flyby) and took a number of amazing photographs for its time. It is believed that Zond 3 was initially designed as a co...
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Mariner 4
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Mariner 4 (together with Mariner 3 known as Mariner-Mars 1964) was the fourth in a series of spacecraft, launched on November 28, 1964, intended for planetary exploration in a flyby mode and performed the first successful flyby of the planet Mars, returning the first pictures of the Martian surf...
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NASA'S Shuttle Atlantis At Launch Pad, Liftoff Practice Set After safely reaching its launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis awaits the next major milestone for its upcoming STS-135 mission to the International Space Station, the final flight of the Space S...
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Saturn IB AS-203
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Saturn IB AS-203 Launch Aerial View 1966 NASA colour 3min The launch of Saturn 1B AS-203 on July 5, 1966, from Cape Canaveral Kennedy Space Centre Launch Complex 37B. AS-203 (or SA-203) was an unmanned flight of the Saturn IB rocket on July 5...
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N-1 rocket explosion
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Soviet N-1 rocket explosion in 1969. Vehicle serial number 5L - Zond L1S-2 for Moon flyby - At liftoff a loose bolt was ingested into a fuel pump, which failed. After detecting the inoperative fuel pump, the automatic engine control shut...
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Progress M-34
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Progress M-34 collides with Mir, 1997 Progress M-34 was a Russian unmanned cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1997 to resupply the Mir space station, and which subsequently collided with Mir during a docking attempt, resulting in...
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RHESSI
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NASA Small Explorer Mission Celebrates Ten Years and Forty Thousand X-Ray Flares On February 5, 2002, NASA launched what was then called the High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI) into orbit. Renamed within months as the Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) after Reuv...
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Gemini 9A mission
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Gemini 9A (officially Gemini IX-A) was a 1966 manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. It was the 7th manned Gemini flight, the 13th manned American flight and the 23rd spaceflight of all time (includes X-15 flights over 100 kilometres). Read more Launch date June 3, 1966, 13:39:33 UTC
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Dragon C2, also known as COTS Demo Flight 2, is the second planned flight of the unmanned SpaceX Dragon spacecraft which is planned to orbit the Earth in 2011, and the third flight of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The flight is the second flight in the COTS ("Commercial Orbital Transportation Ser...
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STS-96 mission
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STS-96 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Discovery, and the first shuttle flight to dock with the International Space Station on 29 May 1999 at 04:23 UTC. Read more[video=http://...
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Soyuz TMA-04M
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Soyuz TMA-04M is a planned 2012 flight to the International Space Station (ISS). It will transport Expedition 31's three-member crew to the ISS. TMA-04M will be the Soyuz spacecraft's 113th flight since its initial launch in 1967. As per the mission plan, the spacecraft will remain docked to the sp...
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Liberty rocket
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ATK's Liberty rocket targets 2015 debut The industrial team that aims to make an astronaut launcher by marrying parts of the US space shuttle and Europe's Ariane rocket says it now has a complete system. Known as Liberty, the launcher would be sold to Nasa to take its crews to the International Space...
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STS-49 mission
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STS-49 was the maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The primary goal of its nine-day mission was to retrieve the Intelsat VI satellite. Read more
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Mercury-Redstone 3 mission
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Mercury-Redstone 3 was a U.S. Mercury program manned space mission launched on May 5, 1961 using a Redstone rocket, from Launch Complex 5 (LC-5) at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Read more
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