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Human Spaceflight Fast Facts Facts The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and landing on July 21, 2011. China and Russia are the only other countries to have independent spaceflight capabilities. India and Iran have both announced their plans to send a crewed spacecraft into space. Timeline May 25, 1961 –US President John F. Kennedy addresses Congress: “First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal...

NASA Fast Facts elisfkc2 / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Timeline October 1, 1958 – The official start of NASA. October 7, 1958 – NASA announces Project Mercury. The Mercury project’s objectives are to place a human spacecraft into orbital flight around Earth, observe human performance in such conditions and recover the human and the spacecraft safely. April 9, 1959 – The...

Patrick Rowan’s Skywatch: Recalling pioneers of spaceflight Today 5:06 AM Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., posing here in his Mercury flight suit, was born in New Hampshire in 1923. After graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1944, he served in World War II and became a Navy test pilot. His May 5, 1961, launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a suborbital mission was the first U.S. manned spaceflight. (NASA photo) Facebook Share With the surprising award last month to SpaceX to land the fi...

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NASA and SpaceX now plan to bring Crew-1 astronauts home in the predawn darkness Sunday Christian Davenport © Bill Ingalls/AP The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft -- the same capsule that docked Saturday at the International Space Station -- is shown landing with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Fla., Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020. It was the first splashdown in 45 years for NASA astronauts and the first...

The San Diego Air & Space Museum Remembers Michael Collins The San Diego Air & Space Museum Remembers Michael Collins Michael Collins laying down, observing a checklist in a simulator of the command module. The San Diego Air & Space Museum is remembering Michael Collins, the Command Module Pilot for the historic Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969 and a member of the prestigious International Air & Space Hall of Fame. Collins passed away on April 28, 2021. He was 90. Since 1963, the International Ai...

Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins Has Passed Away at the Age of 90 Matt Blitz © Science & Society Picture Library - Getty Images Michael Collins, the American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 Columbia command module around the moon, died on April 28, 2021 at age 90, after battling cancer. Michael Collins, the American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11Columbia command module around the moon by himself while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the lunar surface, passed ...

What makes a planet habitable? April 23, 2021 at 9:41 am What makes a planet habitable? How can we hope to find a habitable – or inhabited – planet beyond the Solar System? Advertisement To stand a better chance of getting answers to these questions, we need to understand which properties are essential for the origin and continued existence of life, and how Earth acquired them. At the 2021 Online Conference of the Dutch Origins Center, planetary scientist Alessandro Morbidelli (Nice Observ...

    In 2019 astronomers lifted the veil on the monster black hole called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) at the heart of our Milky Way Galaxy. Using computer modelling, astronomers  to simulated the material inside the thick cloud of plasma, dust and gas surrounding Sgr A*.  The results pointed to the possibility of a relativistic jet coming from the supermassive black hole with an inclination that is aligned with Earth’s viewing point.  The Unveiling An international team of astronomers recent...