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x Orbital Express Orbital Express      
Orbital Express is a space mission to demonstrate several satellite servicing operations and technologies including Rendezvous, Proximity Operations and Station Keeping, Capture, Docking, Fluid (Hydrazine) Transfer, and ORU (Orbit Replaceable...
x STS-39 STS-39 Space Shuttle program Richard Hieb  
STS-39 was the twelfth mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery. The primary purpose of the mission was to conduct a variety of payload experiments for the Department of Defense. Launch was originally scheduled for March 9, but during processing work...
Donald R. McMonagle
Charles L. Veach
Guion Bluford
Gregory J. Harbaugh
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x Soyuz 32 Soyuz-32 Soyuz programme Valery Ryumin  
Soyuz 32 (Russian: Союз 32, Union 32) was a 1979 Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the eighth mission to and seventh successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 32 crew was the third long-duration crew to...
Vladimir Lyakhov
x Apollo 1 Apollo 1 patch Project Apollo Edward Higgins White  
Apollo 1 is the official name that was retroactively assigned to the never-flown Apollo/Saturn 204 (AS-204) mission. Its command module (CM-012) was destroyed by fire during a test and training exercise on January 27, 1967, at Pad 34 (Launch Complex...
Gus Grissom
Roger B. Chaffee
x STS-41-C SMM im Orbit Space Shuttle program Robert Crippen  
STS-41-C was the 11th space shuttle mission and the fifth for Challenger. The launch was the first direct ascent trajectory for a Shuttle mission. The mission was extended one day due to problems capturing the Solar Max satellite, and the landing...
James van Hoften
Dick Scobee
Terry Hart
George Nelson
x Soyuz 7 Soyuz 7 Soyuz programme Vladislav Volkov  
Soyuz 7 (Russian: Союз 7, Union 7) was part of a joint mission with Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 8 that saw three Soyuz spacecraft in orbit together at the same time, carrying seven cosmonauts. The crew consisted of commander Anatoli Filipchenko, flight...
Viktor Gorbatko
Anatoli Filipchenko
x STS-27 STS-27 Space Shuttle program William Shepherd  
STS-27 was a space shuttle mission by NASA using the Space Shuttle Atlantis. It was the 27th shuttle mission, and the 3rd for Atlantis, 2nd after the Challenger disaster. It carried a classified payload for the U.S. Department of Defense. The Space...
Jerry L. Ross
Robert L. Gibson
Richard Mullane
Guy Gardner
x Soyuz 28 Soyuz 28 Soyuz programme Vladimír Remek  
Soyuz 28 (Russian: Союз 28, Union 28) was a 1978 Soviet manned mission to the orbiting Salyut 6 space station. It was the fourth mission to the station, the third successful docking, and the second visit to the resident crew launched in Soyuz 26....
Aleksei Gubarev
x STS-110 STS-110 Space Shuttle program Stephen Frick  
STS-110 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis. The main purpose was to install the S0 Truss segment, which forms the backbone of the truss structure on the station. The main purpose of...
Jerry L. Ross
Steven Smith
Rex J. Walheim
Michael J. Bloomfield
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x STS-71 STS-71 Space Shuttle program Charles J. Precourt  
STS-71 was the third mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, which carried out the first Space Shuttle docking to Mir, a Russian space station. The mission used Space Shuttle Atlantis, which lifted off from launch pad 39A on June 27, 1995...
Anatoly Solovyev
Bonnie J. Dunbar
Vladimir Dezhurov
Gregory J. Harbaugh
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x STS-1 STS-1 Space Shuttle program Robert Crippen  
STS-1 was the first orbital flight of the Space Shuttle, launched on April 12, 1981, and returning to Earth April 14. Space Shuttle Columbia orbited the earth 37 times in this 54.5-hour mission. It was the first US manned orbital space flight since...
John Watts Young
x STS-2 STS-2 Space Shuttle program Richard H. Truly  
STS-2 was a space shuttle mission by NASA using the Space Shuttle Columbia, that launched on 12 November 1981 . This was the second space shuttle mission, and was also the second mission for Columbia. It was thus the first time ever that a manned...
Joseph Henry Engle
x Soyuz TM-14 Soyuz-tm14 Soyuz programme Alexandr Kaleri  
Launched: Landed: 14th expedition to Mir. Included astronaut from Germany. The First Russian Soyuz mission after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Klaus Dietrich Flade became the second German to visit a space station when he reached Mir with the...
Michel Tognini
Klaus-Dietrich Flade
Alexander Viktorenko
x Soyuz TM-7 Soyuz TM-7 Soyuz programme Jean-Loup Chrétien  
Soyuz TM-7 was the seventh expedition to the Russian Space Station Mir. Launched: Landed: (1) number of spaceflights each crew member has completed, including this mission. The original launch date of November 21 was moved back to permit French...
Alexander Alexandrovich Volkov
Valeriy Polyakov
Sergei Krikalev
x Soyuz TMA-8 Soyuz TMA-8 Soyuz programme Marcos Pontes  
Soyuz TMA-8 was a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched by a Soyuz FG launch vehicle. Soyuz TMA-8 was a transport mission for portions of the International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 13 crew. The flight delivered ISS...
Jeffrey Williams
Pavel Vinogradov
Anousheh Ansari
x STS-5 STS-5 Space Shuttle program Joseph P. Allen  
STS-5 was a space shuttle mission by NASA using the Space Shuttle Columbia, launched 11 November 1982. This was the fifth space shuttle mission, and was also the fifth mission for the Space Shuttle Columbia. STS-5, the first operational mission,...
Vance D. Brand
William B. Lenoir
Robert F. Overmyer
x Soyuz TM-17 Soyuz-tm17 Soyuz programme Vasili Tsibliyev  
Launched: Landed: (1) number of spaceflights each crew member has completed, including this mission. Soyuz TM-17 was the 17th expedition to the Russian Space Station Mir. At 7:37:11 a.m. Moscow time (MT), on 1994 January 14, Soyuz-TM 17 separated...
Aleksandr Serebrov
Jean-Pierre Haigneré
x Gemini 6A Ge06Patch emb Project Gemini Wally Schirra  
Gemini 6A (officially Gemini VI-A) was a 1965 manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. It was the 5th manned Gemini flight, the 13th manned American flight and the 21st spaceflight of all time (includes X-15 flights over 100 km -- 62 miles.). It...
Thomas Patten Stafford
x Soyuz TMA-4 Soyuz TMA-4 launch Soyuz programme Yuri Shargin  
Soyuz TMA-4 was a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched by a Soyuz FG launch vehicle. It was launched on April 19, 2004 (UTC) from Baikonur Cosmodrome. Gennady Padalka from Russia, Michael Fincke from the USA and André...
Edward Fincke
André Kuipers
Gennady Padalka
x Soyuz TM-11 Soyuz-tm11 Soyuz programme Musa Manarov  
Launched: Landed: (1) number of spaceflights each crew member has completed, including this mission. 11th expedition to Mir. Toyohiro Akiyama was a reporter/space tourist for a Japanese television network. Spent 175 days docked to Mir. Its launch...
Viktor M. Afanasyev
Toyohiro Akiyama
Helen Sharman
x Vostok 4 /guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000004b21c0f Vostok programme Pavel Popovich  
Vostok 4 (Russian: Восток-4, Orient 4 or East 4) was a mission in the Soviet space program. It was launched 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...
x STS-99 STS-99 Space Shuttle program Janet L. Kavandi  
STS-99 was a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission, that launched on February 11, 2000 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The primary objective of the mission was the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) project. The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission ...
Janice E. Voss
Mamoru Mohri
Dominic L. Pudwill Gorie
Gerhard Thiele
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x Soyuz 38 Soyuz38 patch Soyuz programme Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez  
Soyuz 38 was a human spaceflight mission conducted by the Soviet Union during September, 1980. The Soyuz spacecraft brought two visiting crew members to the Salyut 6 space station, one of whom was an Intercosmos cosmonaut from Cuba. Number in...
Yuri Romanenko
Jose Lopez Falcon
x Soyuz TM-26 Damaged Spektr solar array Soyuz programme Anatoly Solovyev  
Soyuz TM-26 is a Russian spacecraft that ferried cosmonauts and supplies to the Mir, the Russian space station. It was the 32nd expedition to Mir. It was launched by a Soyuz-U rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome on August 5, 1997. The main mission was...
Pavel Vinogradov
Léopold Eyharts
x Soyuz TMA-5 Soyuz TMA-5 Soyuz programme Yuri Shargin  
Soyuz TMA-5 was a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched by a Soyuz-FG launch vehicle. TMA 5 ISS 10 Crew patches were designed by Seán O'Mara for USSR Airspace. 25th manned flight to ISS. Soyuz TMA-5 is a Soyuz spacecraft...
Leroy Chiao
Salizhan Sharipov
Roberto Vittori
x STS-48 STS-48 Space Shuttle program James Buchli  
STS-48 was a Space Shuttle mission that launched on September 12, 1991, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The orbiter was Space Shuttle Discovery. The primary payload was the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite. The mission landed on September 18...
Charles D. Gemar
John Oliver Creighton
Kenneth S. Reightler, Jr.
Mark N. Brown
x Soyuz 6 Soyuz 6 Soyuz programme Georgi Shonin  
Soyuz 6 (Russian: Союз 6, Union 6) was part of a joint mission with Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 8 that saw three Soyuz spacecraft in orbit together at the same time, carrying seven cosmonauts. The crew of Georgi Shonin and Valeri Kubasov were meant to take...
Valeri Kubasov
x Expedition 6 Expedition 6 insignia Space Shuttle program Ken Bowersox  
Expedition 6 was the sixth expedition to the International Space Station. The Station's sixth crew was launched to the Station aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-113 in November 2002. The mission was expected to be a four-month mission that was to...
Soyuz programme Donald Pettit
Nikolai Budarin
x STS-74   Space Shuttle program William S. McArthur  
STS-74 was a Space Shuttle Atlantis mission to the Mir space station. It was the fourth mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, and it carried out the second docking of a space shuttle to Mir. Atlantis lifted off for the mission on November...
James D. Halsell
Kenneth D. Cameron
Jerry L. Ross
Chris Hadfield
x Skylab 3 Skylab2-Patch Skylab Jack R. Lousma  
Skylab 3 (also SL-3 and SLM-2) was the second manned mission to Skylab. The Skylab 3 mission started July 28, 1973, with the launch of three astronauts on the Saturn IB rocket, and lasted 59 days, 11 hours and 9 minutes. A total of 1,084.7 astronaut...
Alan Bean
Owen K. Garriott
x Soyuz 37 Soyuz37 patch Soyuz programme Phạm Tuân  
Soyuz 37 (Russian: Союз 37, Union 37) was the 11th expedition to Salyut 6, consisting of the 6th international crew of the Intercosmos program. Number in parentheses indicates number of spaceflights by each individual prior to and including this...
Viktor Gorbatko
x STS-100 STS-100 Space Shuttle program Kent Rominger  
STS-100 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour. STS-100 installed the ISS Canadarm2 robotic arm. The highest priority objectives of the flight were the installation, activation and...
Yuri Lonchakov
Umberto Guidoni
Chris Hadfield
Jeffrey Ashby
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x Gemini 4 Gemini4-Patch Project Gemini James McDivitt  
Gemini 4 (officially Gemini IV) was a June 1965 manned space flight in NASA's Gemini program. It was the 2nd manned Gemini flight, the 10th manned American flight and the 18th spaceflight of all time (includes X-15 flights over 100 km). It was...
Edward Higgins White
x STS-116 STS-116 Space Shuttle program Nicholas Patrick  
STS-116 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Discovery. Liftoff was originally scheduled for December 7, 2006, but that attempt was canceled due to a low cloud ceiling. Discovery successfully...
Mark L. Polansky
Christer Fuglesang
Sunita Williams
Thomas Reiter
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x Soyuz 13   Soyuz programme Pyotr Klimuk  
Soyuz 13 (Russian: Союз 13, Union 13) was a 1973 Soviet manned space flight, the second test flight of the redesigned Soyuz 7K-T spacecraft that first flew as Soyuz 12. The spacecraft was specially modified to carry the Orion 2 Space Observatory....
Valentin Lebedev
x Apollo 12 AP12goodship Project Apollo Richard F. Gordon, Jr.  
Apollo 12 was the sixth manned flight in the Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon. The mission was commanded by Charles "Pete" Conrad. It was launched on November 14, 1969, four months after Apollo 11. Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Alan...
Alan Bean
Pete Conrad
x Apollo-Soyuz Test Project ASTPpatch Soyuz programme Valeri Kubasov  
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) (Russian: Экспериментальный полёт «Аполлон» — «Союз») (Eksperimantalniy polyot Apollon-Soyuz) was the last mission in the Apollo program and was the first joint flight of the U.S. and Soviet space programs. The...
Project Apollo Aleksei Leonov
Vance D. Brand
Deke Slayton
Thomas Patten Stafford
x STS-65 STS-65 Space Shuttle program Richard Hieb  
STS-65 is a Space Shuttle program mission of Columbia launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, July 8, 1994. The International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-2) is the second in a series of Spacelab (SL) flights designed to conduct research in a...
James D. Halsell
Carl E. Walz
Leroy Chiao
Chiaki Mukai
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x Soyuz TM-15   Soyuz programme Michel Tognini  
Launched: Landed: 15th expedition to Mir. Included astronaut Michel Tognini from France. Michel Tognini, passenger aboard Soyuz- TM 15, was the third Frenchman to visit a space station. He conducted ten experiments using 300 kg of equipment...
Anatoly Solovyev
Sergei Avdeyev
x STS-46 STS-46 Space Shuttle program Jeffrey A. Hoffman  
STS-46 was a NASA space shuttle mission launched in 1992. Mission's primary objectives were the deployment of ESA's EURECA (European Retrievable Carrier) and the joint NASA/Italian Space Agency Tethered Satellite System (TSS). EURECA was deployed a...
Franco Malerba
Andrew M. Allen
Marsha Ivins
Franklin Chang-Diaz
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x STS-95 STS-95 Space Shuttle program Pedro Duque  
STS-95 was a Space Shuttle Discovery mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on October 29, 1998. It was the 25th flight of Discovery and the 92nd mission flown since the start of the Space Shuttle program in April 1981. It was a highly...
Curtis Brown
Chiaki Mukai
Steven W. Lindsey
Stephen Robinson
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x STS-26 The mission logo of STS-26, flown by OV-103 Space Shuttle program John M. Lounge  
STS-26 was the 26th Space Shuttle mission and the seventh flight for Discovery, launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. It was the "Return to Flight" mission, being the first mission after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. This was the...
Frederick Hauck
David C. Hilmers
Richard O. Covey
George Nelson
x STS-41-B STS-41-B Space Shuttle program Ronald McNair  
STS-41-B was the tenth space shuttle mission, and the fourth flight for Challenger. Following STS-9, the flight numbering system for Space Shuttle missions was changed. Thus, the next flight, instead of being designated STS-11, became STS 41-B. STS...
Robert L. Stewart
Vance D. Brand
Robert L. Gibson
Bruce McCandless II
x Apollo 17 Apollo 17-insignia Project Apollo Harrison Schmitt  
Apollo 17 was the eleventh manned space mission in the NASA Apollo program. It was the first night launch of a U.S. human spaceflight and the sixth and final lunar landing mission of the Apollo program. The mission was launched at 12:33 a.m. EST on...
Ronald Evans
Eugene Andrew Cernan
x STS-112 STS-112 Space Shuttle program Sandra Magnus  
STS-112 was a space shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis. STS-112 was a 10-day assembly mission in October 2002 that attached the S1 Truss segment. Atlantis did not fly again until STS-115 on...
David Wolf
Piers Sellers
Jeffrey Ashby
Pamela Melroy
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x Gemini 3 Gemini3 Project Gemini Gus Grissom  
Gemini 3 was a 1965 manned space flight in NASA's Gemini program. It was the first manned Gemini flight, the seventh American flight and the 17th manned spaceflight from Earth of all time (includes X-15 flights over 100 kilometers). It was also the...
John Watts Young
x Soyuz 11   Soyuz programme Vladislav Volkov  
Soyuz 11 (Russian: Союз 11, Union 11) was the first successful visit to the world's first space station, Salyut 1. However the mission ended in disaster when the crew capsule depressurised during preparations for re-entry, killing the three-man crew...
Georgiy Dobrovolskiy
Viktor Patsayev
x STS-51-D STS-51-D Space Shuttle program Charles Walker  
STS-51D was the sixteenth flight of a space shuttle and the fourth flight of Discovery. It conducted the fifth landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The launch of Discovery on STS-51D was delayed by 55 minutes when a boat strayed into the...
Jeffrey A. Hoffman
Jake Garn
Margaret Rhea Seddon
Karol J. Bobko
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x STS-63 STS-63 Space Shuttle program Michael Foale  
STS-63 was the second mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, which carried out the first rendezvous of the American Space Shuttle with Russia's space station Mir. Known as the 'Near-Mir' mission, the flight used Space Shuttle Discovery,...
Eileen Collins
Jim Wetherbee
Janice E. Voss
Vladimir Titov
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x STS-98 STS-98 Space Shuttle program Mark L. Polansky  
STS-98 was a 2001 Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis. STS-98 delivered to the station the Destiny Laboratory Module. All mission objectives were completed and the shuttle reentered and...
Thomas David Jones
Marsha Ivins
Kenneth Cockrell
Robert Curbeam
x STS-9 STS-9 Space Shuttle program Ulf Merbold  
STS-9 (also known as STS-41A) (Spacelab 1) was the 6th mission of the Space Shuttle Columbia It was Columbia's last flight until early January of 1986, STS-61C. It was also the last time the old Space Transportation System numbering was used until...
Brewster H. Shaw
John Watts Young
Robert A. Parker
Byron K. Lichtenberg
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x Mercury-Atlas 6 Friendship 7 insignia Project Mercury John Glenn  
Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) was a human spaceflight mission conducted by NASA, the space agency of the United States. As part of Project Mercury, MA-6 was the successful first attempt by NASA to place an astronaut into orbit. The MA-6 mission was...
x STS-127 Space Shuttle Insignia Space Shuttle program Gregory Chamitoff  
STS-127 (ISS assembly flight 2J/A) was a space shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). It was the twenty-third flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour. The primary purpose of the STS-127 mission was to deliver and install the final two...
Timothy L. Kopra
Koichi Wakata
Julie Payette
David Wolf
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x Soyuz 36 Soyuz36 patch Soyuz programme Valeri Kubasov  
Soyuz 36 (Russian: Союз 36, Union 36) was the 9th expedition to Salyut 6 and the 5th mission of the Intercosmos program. Number in parentheses indicates number of spaceflights by each individual prior to and including this mission. Launched: Landed:...
Bertalan Farkas
Phạm Tuân
x Soyuz TMA-10 From left to right: Charles Simonyi, Oleg Kotov, Fyodor Yurchikhin Soyuz programme Charles Simonyi  
Soyuz TMA-10 was a human spaceflight mission using a Soyuz-TMA spacecraft to transport personnel to and from the International Space Station (ISS). The mission began at 17:31:09 UTC on April 7, 2007 when the spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur...
Oleg Kotov
Fyodor Yurchikhin
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor
x STS-105 STS-105 Space Shuttle program Susan J. Helms  
STS-105 was a mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station; launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, August 10, 2001. This mission was Discovery's final mission until STS-114, due to the fact that Discovery was...
James S. Voss
Vladimir Dezhurov
Patrick G. Forrester
Scott J. Horowitz
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x Space Shuttle Challenger disaster Challenger explosion   Ronald McNair  
The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on January 28, 1986, when Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members. The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, off the...
Judith Resnik
Dick Scobee
Michael J. Smith
Gregory Jarvis
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x STS-57 STS-57 Space Shuttle program Ronald J. Grabe  
STS-57 was a Shuttle-Spacehab mission of Space Shuttle Endeavour that launched June 21, 1993 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. During the course of the ten-day flight, the astronauts successfully conducted scores of biomedical and materials...
Brian Duffy
Nancy J. Currie
Peter J.K. Wisoff
Janice E. Voss
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x Soyuz 16 Soyuz 16Apollo-Soyuz Soyuz programme Anatoli Filipchenko  
Soyuz 16 (Russian: Союз 16, Union 16) was a 1974 manned test flight for a joint Soviet-US space flight which culminated in the Apollo-Soyuz mission in July, 1975. The two-man Soviet crew tested a docking ring and other systems to be used in the...
Nikolai Rukavishnikov
x Expedition 7 Expedition 7 insignia International Space Station Yuri Malenchenko  
Expedition 7 was the seventh expedition to the International Space Station. The seventh crew of the International Space Station lifted off in Soyuz TMA-2 from the Russian Space Agency's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 25, 2003, at 10:54 p...
Ed Lu
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