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The top executive for Boeing’s rival Starliner program, John Mulholland, said on Wednesday that its own key test of an abort system was slated for Nov. 4, while its unpiloted orbital test flight was set for Dec. 17. Under that time frame, the first Starliner manned mission is all but ...
After years of decay, control center for first manned US orbital flight back in useMARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer
Future astronauts could spend up to six weeks at a time orbiting the moon and visiting its surface. This will be made possible by what NASA calls the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway. It will be a sort of mini space station. Gateway will be smaller than the Internationa...
BEIJING, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Chinese first astronaut Yang Liwei said he was looking forward to setting foot on the moon. He made the remarks at the 16th anniversary of his flying into space aboard the Shenzhou-5 spacecraft on Oct. 15, 2003, according to the China Manned Space Agency....
The journey to the orbital lab takes six hours, with docking expected at 1736 GMT. It was the first manned launch for the Soviet-era Soyuz since October 11, when a rocket carrying Russia's Aleksey Ovchinin and US astronaut Nick Hague failed just minutes after blast-off, forcing the pair...
As of 2016, the launch of the PPB module was expected during the Exploration Mission-3 (EM-3) of the Orion/SLS system in 2023. The flight would last around 16 days, including five days in the orbit around the Moon, where the Orion will undock from the module before returning back to...
The first manned moon landing, by Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, occurred on July 20, 1969. NASA got its first close-up pictures of Mars, thanks to Mariner 4, on July 14, 1965, and the robotic Pathfinder landed on Mars on July 4, 1997. ...
The Proton launch vehicle, developed in 1965, allowed the Soviet scientists to quadruple the size of their planetary probes. With these large spacecraft, the early 1970s became a golden age of planetary exploration. Soviet robots roamed the Moon, and six missions to Mars included the first ...
from orbit, the first man in space, the first planetary flyby, and the first man to make a spacewalk. It would not be until 1965 during Project Gemini that the Americans finally exceeded the Soviets in manned spaceflight capability – a lead they would carry all the way to th...