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First test launch of Galactic Energy’s Pallas-1 rocket.
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First test launch of Space Pioneer’s Tianlong-3 rocket.
NASA’s Day of Remembrance Honors Fallen Heroes of Exploration
NASA will observe its annual Day of Remembrance on Thursday, Jan. 22, which includes commemorating the crews of Apollo 1 and the space shuttles Challe...
Defense appropriations bill for 2026 funds Space Force at $26 billion, presses Pentagon on Golden Dome
‘Minibus’ shifts money to GPS, backs commercial services and cuts proposed MILNET constellation The post Defense appropriations bill for 2026 funds S...
Mysterious polar weather on Jupiter and Saturn could be key to understanding their insides
"I don't think anyone's made this connection between the surface fluid pattern and the interior properties of these plan...
NASA Astronaut Suni Williams Retires
After 27 years of service, NASA astronaut Suni Williams retired from the agency, effective Dec. 27, 2025. Williams completed three missions aboard the...
New NASA Artemis Payloads To Study Moon’s Terrain, Radiation, History
NASA announced Tuesday the selection of three new science investigations that will strengthen humanity’s understanding and exploration of the Moon. As...
Space Foundation to Host Innovate Space: Finance Forum in Partnership With Texas Space Commission
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Jan. 15, 2026 — Space Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1983 to advance the global space community, today ann...
NIH Supplements, Facts First Challenge
NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA Tourn...
Blue Origin launching 6 people to suborbital space on Jan. 22
Blue Origin will launch six people to the final frontier on Thursday (Jan. 22), and you can watch the space tourism miss...
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-82
SpaceX | Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Atlas V 551 | Amazon Leo (LA-04)
United Launch Alliance | Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Electron | Raise and Shine (RAISE-4)
Rocket Lab | Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-12
SpaceX | Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
PSLV-DL | EOS-N1 and others
Indian Space Research Organization | Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-99
SpaceX | Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Proton-M/Blok DM-03 | Elektro-L No.5
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
LVM-3 | BlueBird Block 2 #1
Indian Space Research Organization | Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India
Falcon 9 Block 5 | 5x Astranis MicroGEO
SpaceX | Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
H3-22 | Michibiki 5 (QZS-5)
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
Ariane 62 | Galileo L14 (FOC FM33 & FM34)
Arianespace | Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Soyuz-5 | Demo Flight
RKK Energiya | Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-88
SpaceX | Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
New Shepard | NS-37
Blue Origin | Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
Long March 3B/E | Fengyun-4C
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-13
SpaceX | Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Long March 12A | Demo Flight
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Long March 4C | Unknown Payload
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
Long March 12 | SatNet LEO Group 16
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation | Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-90
SpaceX | Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
SpaceX Crew-12 Pre-Launch News Conference
NASA, SpaceX, and ESA will host a press conference ahead of Crew-12 launch to the International Space Station with the following participants: - Steve Stich, manager, Commercial Crew Program, NASA - Dana Weigel, manager, International Space Station Program, NASA - Andreas Mogensen, Human Exploration Group Leader, ESA - William Gerstenmaier, vice president, Build and Flight Reliability, SpaceX
📍 Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Artemis II Wet Dress Rehersal Press Conference
Following a fueling test of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket at the launch pad for the Artemis II Moon mission, leaders will discuss initial results during a news conference. Participants in the news conference include: - NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya - Lori Glaze, acting associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate - John Honeycutt, chair, Artemis II Mission Management Team - Representative, Exploration Ground Systems Program
📍 Kennedy Space Center
Artemis II Wet Dress Rehearsal
The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for the Artemis II mission will perform a Wet Dress Rehearsal to demonstrate the ability to load more than 700,000 gallons of cryogenic propellants into the rocket, conduct a launch countdown, and practice safely removing propellant from the rocket without astronauts inside the spacecraft.
📍 LC-39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Booster 19 Rollout to Masseys
Booster 19 is rolling out to the Masseys test site at Starbase ahead of testing.
📍 Starbase Texas
SpaceX Crew-12 Crew News Conference
The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission will participate in a virtual news conference from NASA Johnson crew quarters. Participants include: - Jessica Meir, Crew-12 commander, NASA - Jack Hathaway, Crew-12 pilot, NASA - Sophie Adenot, Crew-12 mission specialist, ESA - Andrey Fedyaev, Crew-12 mission specialist, Roscosmos
📍 Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USA
SpaceX Crew-12 Mission Overview News Conference
The Crew-12 mission leadership will host a mission overview press conference with the following participants - Ken Bowersox, associate administrator, NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate - Steve Stich, manager, Commercial Crew Program, NASA Kennedy - Dana Weigel, manager, International Space Station Program, NASA Johnson - Andreas Mogensen, Human Exploration Group Leader, ESA - A SpaceX representative
📍 Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USA
RS-25 Engine Test
NASA is conducting a hot fire as part of the final round of certification testing ahead of production of an updated set of the engines for the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket.
📍 Fred Haise Test Stand, NASA’s Stennis Space Center
SpaceX Crew-11 Post-Flight News Conference
After 167 days in space, the crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission will hold a news conference at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to discuss their science expedition aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov will answer questions about their mission. The crew members returned to Earth on Jan. 15, splashing down off the coast of San Diego.
📍 Johnson Space Center, Houston
TNI AU Siagakan RSAU dr. Dody Sardjoto untuk Identifikasi Korban Pesawat ATR 42-500
TNI AU. TNI Angkatan Udara melalui Lanud Sultan Hasanuddin menyiagakan Rumah Sakit Angkatan Udara (RSAU) dr. Dody Sardjoto sebagai posko Tim Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) untuk mendukung proses identifikasi korban pesawat ATR 42-500, Minggu (18/1/26).Komandan Lanud Sultan Hasanuddin Marsma TNI Arifaini Nur Dwiyanto, M.Han., mengatakan keterlibatan RSAU dr. Dody Sardjoto merupakan wujud komitmen TNI AU dalam mendukung proses kemanusiaan setelah evakuasi selesai dilakukan di lapangan.“Setelah korban berhasil dievakuasi dari lokasi jatuhnya pesawat, TNI AU menyiagakan RSAU dr. Dody Sardjoto sebagai posko Tim DVI untuk mendukung proses identifikasi korban bersama instansi terkait,” ujar Komandan Lanud.Dalam operasionalnya, RSAU dr. Dody Sardjoto akan bersinergi dengan Polri, Basarnas, pemerintah daerah, serta berbagai pihak terkait agar seluruh tahapan identifikasi berjalan cepat, akurat, dan sesuai standar internasional DVI.TNI Angkatan Udara memastikan akan terus hadir dalam operasi kemanusiaan, tidak hanya pada tahap pencarian dan evakuasi, tetapi juga pada penanganan lanjutan untuk memberikan kepastian bagi keluarga korban.
📍 Jakarta, Indonesia
TNI AU Turunkan Korpasgat Usai Temukan Titik Jatuhnya Pesawat ATR 42-500
TNI AU. Setelah mengerahkan helikopter H225M Caracal dari Skadron Udara 8 dan pesawat Boeing 737-200 dari Skadron Udara 5 untuk melaksanakan misi pencarian udara, TNI Angkatan Udara berhasil mengidentifikasi titik jatuhnya pesawat ATR 42-500 milik Indonesia Air Transport (IAT) di kawasan Gunung Bulu Saraung, Kabupaten Maros, Sulawesi Selatan, Minggu (18/1/2026).Menindaklanjuti temuan tersebut, TNI AU segera menurunkan lima prajurit Korps Pasukan Gerak Cepat (Korpasgat) dan satu personel Basarnas menggunakan helikopter H225M Caracal ke lokasi. Setibanya di titik jatuhnya pesawat, para prajurit Korpasgat menyiapkan langkah awal proses evakuasi.Selain mengerahkan unsur udara, TNI AU juga telah menerjunkan prajurit gabungan yang terdiri dari Lanud Sultan Hasanuddin, Yon Parako 473 Korpasgat, dan Yon Arhanud 23 Korpasgat. Tim darat tersebut bergabung dengan unsur SAR lainnya serta masyarakat setempat untuk memperkuat upaya pencarian dan evakuasi.TNI AU berkomitmen untuk terus mendukung proses evakuasi serta membantu otoritas terkait dalam penanganan lanjutan.
📍 Jakarta, Indonesia
Alexander Gerst
Alexander Gerst is a German European Space Agency astronaut and geophysicist, who was selected in 2009 to take part in space training. He was part of the International Space Station Expedition 40 and 41 from May to November 2014. Gerst returned to space on June 6, 2018, as part of Expedition 56/57 as the ISS Commander.
🚀 European Space Agency | Government
Christopher Ferguson
Christopher J. Ferguson is a Boeing commercial astronaut and a retired United States Navy Captain and NASA astronaut. He was the pilot of Space Shuttle Atlantis on his first mission to space, STS-115, which launched on September 9, 2006 and returned to Earth on September 21, 2006. He then commanded STS-126 aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour. In 2011, he was assigned as commander of STS-135, which was the final mission of the space shuttle program. On December 9, 2011, he retired from NASA and is now currently director of Crew and Mission Operations for Boeing's Commercial Crew Program. In August 2018, Ferguson was assigned to the first test flight of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner.
🚀 Boeing | Commercial
Oleg Artemyev
Oleg Germanovich Artemyev (Russian: Олег Германович Артемьев) is a Russian Cosmonaut for the Russian Federal Space Agency. He was selected as part of the RKKE-15 Cosmonaut group in 2003. He was a Flight engineer of Expedition 39 and 40 to the International Space Station, and in 2018 he returned to space as the Commander of Soyuz MS-08.
🚀 Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Government
Andrew R. Morgan
Andrew Richard "Drew" Morgan is a NASA astronaut from the class of 2013.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Anne McClain
Anne Charlotte McClain is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army currently assigned to NASA Astronaut Group 21.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
David Saint-Jacques
David Saint-Jacques is a Canadian astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). He was also an engineer, an astrophysicist, and a physician prior to joining the CSA. He was selected to join the CSA in the 2009 CSA selection along with Jeremy Hansen.
🚀 Canadian Space Agency | Government
Thomas Pesquet
Thomas Gautier Pesquet is a French aerospace engineer, pilot, and European Space Agency astronaut. Pesquet was selected by ESA as a candidate in May 2009, and he successfully completed his basic training in November 2010. From November 2016 to June 2017, Pesquet was part of Expeditions 50 and 51 on the International Space Station as a flight engineer.
🚀 European Space Agency | Government
Alan Bean
Alan LaVern Bean was an American naval officer and naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut; he was the fourth person to walk on the Moon. He was selected to become an astronaut by NASA in 1963 as part of Astronaut Group 3. He made his first flight into space aboard Apollo 12, the second manned mission to land on the Moon, at age 37 in November 1969. He made his second and final flight into space on the Skylab 3 mission in 1973, the second manned mission to the Skylab space station. After retiring from the United States Navy in 1975 and NASA in 1981, he pursued his interest in painting, depicting various space-related scenes and documenting his own experiences in space as well as that of his fellow Apollo program astronauts. He was the last living crew member of Apollo 12.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Alan Shepard
Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman. In 1961 he became the first American to travel into space, and in 1971 he walked on the Moon.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Andrew J. Feustel
Andrew Jay "Drew" Feustel is a geophysicist and a NASA astronaut. Following several years working as a geophysicist, Feustel was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in July 2000. His first spaceflight in May 2009, STS-125, lasted just under 13 days. This was a mission with six other astronauts to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis. Feustel performed three spacewalks during the mission. His second spaceflight was STS-134, which launched on May 16, 2011 and landed on June 1, 2011. STS-134 was the penultimate Space Shuttle flight. Feustel returned to space on March 21, 2018 on Soyuz MS-08 with Expedition 55/56. For expedition 56, he commanded the International Space Station, before handing over to Alexander Gerst on October 3, 2018.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Charles Bassett
Charles Arthur "Charlie" Bassett II, Major, USAF was an American electrical engineer and United States Air Force test pilot. He was selected as a NASA astronaut in 1963 and assigned to Gemini 9, but died in an airplane crash during training for his first spaceflight.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Clifton Williams
Clifton Curtis "C.C." Williams Jr. was an American naval aviator, test pilot, mechanical engineer, major in the United States Marine Corps, and NASA astronaut, who was killed in a plane crash; he had never been to space. The crash was caused by a mechanical failure in a NASA T-38 jet trainer, which he was piloting to visit his parents in Mobile, Alabama. The failure caused the flight controls to stop responding, and although he activated the ejection seat, it did not save him. He was the fourth astronaut from NASA's Astronaut Group 3 to have died, the first two (Charles Bassett and Theodore Freeman) having been killed in separate T-38 flights, and the third (Roger B. Chaffee) in the Apollo 1 fire earlier that year. The aircraft crashed in Florida near Tallahassee within an hour of departing Patrick AFB. Although he was never on a spaceflight, he served as backup pilot for the mission Gemini 10, which took place in July 1966. Following this mission, he was selected to be the Lunar Module pilot for an Apollo mission to the Moon commanded by Pete Conrad. Following Williams' death, Alan Bean became Lunar Module pilot for Conrad's mission, which ended up being Apollo 12, the second lunar landing.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
David Scott
David Randolph Scott is an American engineer, former NASA astronaut, retired U.S. Air Force officer and former test pilot. He belonged to the third group of NASA astronauts, selected in October 1963. As an astronaut, Scott became the seventh person to walk on the Moon. Following the death of John Young in January 2018, Scott became the last living commander of a successful Apollo lunar landing mission and, as such, the only person currently alive who has flown a spacecraft to a landing on the Moon.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Deke Slayton
Donald Kent "Deke" Slayton, was an American World War II pilot, aeronautical engineer, and test pilot who was selected as one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, and became NASA's first Chief of the Astronaut Office.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Donn F. Eisele
Donn Fulton Eisele was a United States Air Force officer, test pilot, and later a NASA astronaut. He occupied the Command Module Pilot seat during the flight of Apollo 7 in 1968. After retiring from both NASA and the Air Force, he became the Peace Corps country director for Thailand, before moving into private business.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Douglas G. Hurley
Douglas Gerald Hurley is an engineer and retired NASA astronaut. He piloted Space Shuttle mission STS-127, which launched July 15, 2009. He was assigned and flew as pilot for STS-135, the final flight of the Space Shuttle program, in July 2011. He is also the first Marine to fly the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet. His call sign is "Chunky" and was sometimes referred to by this name on the communication loops.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Ed White
Edward Higgins White II was an American aeronautical engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. On June 3, 1965, he became the first American to walk in space. White died along with astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom and Roger B. Chaffee during prelaunch testing for the first manned Apollo mission at Cape Canaveral. He was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal for his flight in Gemini 4 and was then awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor posthumously.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Edward Gibson
Edward George Gibson is a former NASA astronaut, pilot, engineer, and physicist. Before becoming a NASA astronaut, Gibson graduated from the University of Rochester and the California Institute of Technology. He became a research assistant in jet propulsion while completing his studies and eventually became a research scientist for Philco Corporation until joining NASA. Gibson was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1965 as part of Astronaut Group 4, the first group of scientist-astronauts. He served on the support crew of Apollo 12 before moving on to work on the development of the Skylab space station. In 1973–74, Gibson made his first and only flight into space as science pilot aboard Skylab 4, the third and final manned flight to Skylab. He, along with Commander Gerald Carr and Pilot William Pogue, spent just over 84 days in space. Gibson resigned from NASA in December 1974, but returned in 1977 to preside over the selection of scientist-astronaut candidates. Gibson retired from NASA for the last time in October 1982.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Elliot See
Elliot McKay See Jr. was an American engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. He was selected for NASA's second group of astronauts in 1962. See was chosen as the prime command pilot for what would have been his first space flight, Gemini 9. He was killed with Charles Bassett, his intended Gemini 9 crewmate, in a 1966 NASA trainer jet crash at the St. Louis, Missouri McDonnell Aircraft plant, where they were to take two weeks of space rendezvous simulator training.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Frank Borman
Frank Frederick Borman II was a United States Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, best remembered as the Commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the Moon, making him, along with crew mates Jim Lovell and Bill Anders, the first of only 24 humans to do so. Before flying on Apollo, he set a fourteen-day spaceflight endurance record on Gemini 7, and also served on the NASA review board which investigated the Apollo 1 fire. After leaving NASA, he was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Eastern Air Lines from 1975 to 1986. Borman is a recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Fred Haise
Fred Wallace Haise Jr. is an American former NASA astronaut, fighter pilot with the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Air Force and test pilot. He is one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon, having flown as Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 13. He was to have been the sixth person to land and walk on the Moon, but the Apollo 13 mission was aborted before lunar landing. He went on to fly Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests in 1977, and retired from NASA in 1979.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Gene Cernan
Eugene Andrew Cernan was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot. During the Apollo 17 mission, Cernan became the eleventh person to walk on the Moon. Since he re-entered the lunar module after Harrison Schmitt on their third and final lunar excursion, he is the last person to have walked on the Moon. Cernan traveled into space three times; as pilot of Gemini 9A in June 1966, as lunar module pilot of Apollo 10 in May 1969, and as commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972, the final Apollo lunar landing. Cernan was also a backup crew member of the Gemini 12, Apollo 7 and Apollo 14 space missions.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Gordon Cooper
Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper Jr. was an American aerospace engineer, test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, and the youngest of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned space program of the United States. Cooper piloted the longest and final Mercury spaceflight in 1963. He was the first American to sleep in space during that 34-hour mission and was the last American to be launched alone to conduct an entirely solo orbital mission. In 1965, Cooper flew as Command Pilot of Gemini 5.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Gus Grissom
Lieutenant Colonel Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom was one of the seven original National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Project Mercury astronauts, and the first of the Mercury Seven to die. He was also a Project Gemini and an Apollo program astronaut. Grissom was the second American to fly in space, and the first member of the NASA Astronaut Corps to fly in space twice. In addition, Grissom was a World War II and Korean War veteran, U.S. Air Force test pilot, and a mechanical engineer. He was a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross, and the Air Medal with an oak leaf cluster, a two-time recipient of the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, and, posthumously, the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
James McDivitt
James Alton "Jim" McDivitt was an American former test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut who flew in the Gemini and Apollo programs. He commanded the Gemini 4 flight during which Ed White performed the first U.S. spacewalk, and later the Apollo 9 flight which was the first manned flight test of the Lunar Module and the complete set of Apollo flight hardware. He later became Manager of Lunar Landing Operations and was the Apollo Spacecraft Program Manager from 1969 to 1972.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Jim Lovell
James Arthur Lovell Jr. is a former NASA astronaut, Naval Aviator, and retired Navy captain. Lovell is known for being the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, which suffered a critical failure en route to the Moon but was brought back safely to Earth through the efforts of the crew and mission control. In addition to being part of the Apollo 13 crew, Lovell was the command module pilot of Apollo 8, the first Apollo mission to enter lunar orbit.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
John Glenn
Colonel John Herschel Glenn Jr. was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. Following his retirement from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a Democratic United States Senator from Ohio.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
John Young
John Watts Young was an American astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer. He became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as Commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972. Young enjoyed the longest career of any astronaut, becoming the first person to fly six space missions (with seven launches, counting his lunar liftoff) over the course of 42 years of active NASA service. He is the only person to have piloted, and been commander of, four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini, the Apollo Command/Service Module, the Apollo Lunar Module, and the Space Shuttle. In 1965, Young flew on the first manned Gemini mission, and commanded another Gemini mission the next year. In 1969 during Apollo 10, he became the first person to fly solo around the Moon. He drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon's surface during Apollo 16, and is one of only three people to have flown to the Moon twice. He also commanded two Space Shuttle flights, including its first launch in 1981, and served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1974 to 1987. Young retired from NASA in 2004. He died on January 5, 2018.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Michael Collins
Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930) (Major General, USAF, Ret.) was an American former astronaut and test pilot. Selected as part of the third group of fourteen astronauts in 1963, he flew into space twice. His first spaceflight was on Gemini 10, in which he and Command Pilot John Young performed two rendezvous with different spacecraft and undertook two extra-vehicular activities (EVAs, also known as spacewalks). His second spaceflight was as the Command Module Pilot for Apollo 11. While he stayed in orbit around the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left in the Lunar Module to make the first manned landing on its surface. He is one of 24 people to have flown to the Moon. Collins was the fourth person, and third American, to perform an EVA; and is the first person to have performed more than one EVA.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Michael S. Hopkins
Michael Scott Hopkins (born December 28, 1968) is a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force, and a current NASA astronaut. Hopkins was selected in June 2009 as a member of the NASA Astronaut Group 20. He made his first spaceflight as a Flight Engineer on Soyuz TMA-10M/Expedition 37/Expedition 38, from September 2013 until March 2014. He was the first member of his astronaut class to fly in space. As well as being the first member of his class to fly in space, he is set to become the first member of his class to return to space in 2019 as Commander of the first operational SpaceX Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who was the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Owen K. Garriott
Owen Kay Garriott is an American electrical engineer and former NASA astronaut, who spent 60 days aboard the Skylab space station in 1973 during the Skylab 3 mission, and 10 days aboard Spacelab-1 on a Space Shuttle mission in 1983.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Pete Conrad
Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. was an American NASA astronaut, aeronautical engineer, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and during the Apollo 12 mission became the third man to walk on the Moon. Conrad was selected in NASA's second astronaut class.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Richard F. Gordon Jr.
Richard Francis Gordon Jr. was an American naval officer and aviator, chemist, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. He was one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon, as the Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 12 mission. He also flew in space in 1966 as the Pilot of the Gemini 11 mission.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Richard Mastracchio
Richard Alan "Rick" Mastracchio is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut. He has flown on three NASA Space Shuttle missions as a mission specialist in addition to serving as a Flight Engineer on the Soyuz TMA-11M (Expedition 38/Expedition 39) long duration mission aboard the International Space Station. He is currently the Senior Director of Operations for Commercial Resupply Services at Orbital ATK.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Richard R. Arnold
Richard Robert "Ricky" Arnold II is an American educator and a NASA astronaut. He flew on Space Shuttle mission STS-119, which launched March 15, 2009 and delivered the final set of solar arrays to the International Space Station. He launched again in 2018 to the ISS, onboard Soyuz MS-08.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Rusty Schweickart
Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart is an American aeronautical engineer, and a former NASA astronaut, research scientist, U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, as well as a former business executive and government executive. Selected in 1963 for NASA's third astronaut group, he is best known as the Lunar Module Pilot on the 1969 Apollo 9 mission, the first manned flight test of the Lunar Module, on which he performed the first in-space test of the Portable Life Support System used by the Apollo astronauts who walked on the Moon. As backup Commander of the first manned Skylab mission in 1973, he was responsible for developing the hardware and procedures used by the first crew to perform critical in-flight repairs of the Skylab station. After Skylab, he served for a time as Director of User Affairs in NASA's Office of Applications. Schweickart left NASA in 1977 to serve for two years as California Governor Jerry Brown's assistant for science and technology, then was appointed by Brown to California's Energy Commission for five and a half years, serving as chairman for three. In 1984–85 he co-founded the Association of Space Explorers and later in 2002 co-founded the B612 Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to defending Earth from asteroid impacts, along with fellow former astronaut Ed Lu and two planetary scientists. He served for a period as its chair before becoming its chair emeritus.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Scott Carpenter
Malcolm Scott Carpenter, was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, astronaut, and aquanaut. He was one of the original seven astronauts selected for NASA's Project Mercury in April 1959. Carpenter was the second American (after John Glenn) to orbit the Earth and the fourth American in space, following Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and Glenn.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Serena Auñón-Chancellor
Serena Maria Auñón-Chancellor is an American physician, engineer, and NASA astronaut. She has been in space since June 6, 2018, serving as a flight engineer in Expedition 56/57 to the International Space Station.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Theodore Freeman
Theodore Cordy "Ted" Freeman was an American aeronautical engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. Selected in the third group of NASA astronauts in 1963, he was killed a year later in the crash of a T-38 jet, marking the first fatality among the NASA Astronaut Corps. At the time of his death, he held the rank of captain.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Thomas P. Stafford
Thomas Patten Stafford was an American Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut.
🚀 National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Government
Wally Schirra
Walter Marty Schirra Jr. was an American naval aviator and NASA astronaut. In 1959, he became one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury, which was the United States' first effort to put human beings in space. On October 3, 1962, he flew the six-orbit, nine-hour, Mercury-Atlas 8 mission, in a spacecraft he nicknamed Sigma 7. At the time of his mission in Sigma 7, Schirra became the fifth American and ninth human to travel into space. In the two-man Gemini program, he achieved the first space rendezvous, station-keeping his Gemini 6A spacecraft within 1 foot (30 cm) of the sister Gemini 7 spacecraft in December 1965. In October 1968, he commanded Apollo 7, an 11-day low Earth orbit shakedown test of the three-man Apollo Command/Service Module and the first manned launch for the Apollo program.
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Walter Cunningham
Ronnie Walter Cunningham was an American astronaut. In 1968, he was a Lunar Module Pilot on the Apollo 7 mission. He was NASA's third civilian astronaut (after Neil Armstrong and Elliot See), and has also been a fighter pilot, physicist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author of The All-American Boys.
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William Anders
William Alison "Bill" Anders was a United States Air Force Major general, electrical engineer, nuclear engineer, NASA astronaut, and businessman. He was one of the first three persons to leave low Earth orbit and travel to the Moon in Apollo 8 along with fellow astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell as well as for photographing the iconic image, Earthrise. Apart from his professional and military careers, Anders was the U.S. Ambassador to Norway from 1976 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford.
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Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; is an American engineer, former astronaut, and fighter pilot. As Lunar Module Pilot on the Apollo 11 mission, he and mission commander Neil Armstrong were the first two humans to land on the Moon.
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Chris Hadfield
Chris Austin Hadfield is a Canadian retired astronaut, engineer, and former Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot. The first Canadian to walk in space, Hadfield has flown two space shuttle missions and served as commander of the International Space Station.
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Claude Nicollier
Claude Nicollier is the first astronaut from Switzerland. He has flown on four Space Shuttle missions. His first spaceflight (STS-46) was in 1992, and his final spaceflight (STS-103) was in 1999. He took part in two servicing missions to the Hubble Space Telescope (called STS-61 and STS-103). During his final spaceflight he participated in a spacewalk, becoming the first European Space Agency astronaut to do so during a Space Shuttle mission. In 2000 he was assigned to the Astronaut Office Extravehicular Activity Branch, while maintaining a position as Lead ESA Astronaut in Houston. Nicollier retired from ESA in April 2007.
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Nick Hague
Tyler Nicklaus Hague is a retired American Flight Test Engineer and NASA astronaut of the class of 2013. Selected to be a flight engineer of Expedition 57 / 58 to the International Space Station, he launched on board Soyuz MS-10, which aborted shortly after launch on October 11, 2018. He flew again on Soyuz MS-12 and SpaceX Crew-9, completing two stays and four spacewalks at the International Space Station.
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Terry W. Virts
Terry W. Virts Jr. is a former NASA astronaut, and Colonel in the United States Air Force.
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Tim Peake
Major Timothy Nigel Peake CMG is a British Army Air Corps officer, former European Space Agency astronaut and International Space Station (ISS) crew member. He is the first British ESA astronaut, the second astronaut to bear a flag of the United Kingdom patch, the sixth person born in the United Kingdom to go on board the International Space Station and the seventh UK-born person in space. He began the ESA's intensive astronaut basic training course in September 2009 and graduated on 22 November 2010
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User Guide
General:
- For higher performance it's recommended to hide some satellites.
- Performance will be better with lower time flow multiplier values.
- By default 3 satellite categories (Past month launches, Special interest, Weather & Earth resources) are shown.
Available interactions:
- Single click on satellite - shows orbit path, label and satellite details.
- Double click on satellite - starts tracking the satellite (incl. satellite details).
- Click Re-center button to re-adjust the camera focus.
- Click Stop Tracking button to stop tracking.
Time flow multiplier:
Controls simulation speed. Positive = forward, Negative = backward, 0 = stopped.
Buttons:
- - Search Satellite
- - Control Panel
- - Satellite Groups
- - Reset camera position
- - Clear orbits and labels
- - Toggle fullscreen
- - Show user guide
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