Spaceflight or space flight is the use of space technology to achieve the flight of spacecraft into and through outer space. Spaceflight is used in space exploration, and also in commercial activities like space tourism and satellite telecommunications. Additional non-commercial uses of spaceflight include space observatories, reconnaissance satellites and other earth observation satellites. A spaceflight [...]
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Progress is a Russian expendable freighter spacecraft. The spacecraft is an unmanned resupply spacecraft during its flight but upon docking with a space station it allows astronauts inside, hence it is classified ”manned” by the manufacturer. It was derived from the Soyuz spacecraft, and is launched with the Soyuz rocket. It is currently used to [...]
Lately Soyuz-U vehicles have been used by the Russian Federal Space Agency mostly with Progress-M robotic cargo spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station (ISS). The most recent Soyuz-U mission launched Progress M-05M to the ISS on 30 June 2010. Its most recent non-Progress launch was on 16 April 2010, when a Soyuz-U was used [...]
Instead of flying payloads to the International Space Station (ISS) on government operated vehicles, NASA would spend $500 million (less than the cost of a single Space Shuttle flight) through 2010 to finance the demonstration of orbital transportation services from commercial providers. Unlike any previous NASA project, the proposed spacecraft are intended to be owned [...]
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Intercosmos The Intercosmos (“ИнтерКосмос” Interkosmos) was a space exploration program run by the Soviet Union to allow members from military forces of allied Warsaw Pact countries to participate in manned and unmanned space exploration missions. Participation was also made available to governments of sympathetic countries, such as France and India. Only the last three of [...]
The Vision for Space Exploration seeks to implement a sustained and affordable human and robotic program to explore the solar system and beyond; extend human presence across the solar system, starting with a human return to the Moon by the year 2020, in preparation for human exploration of Mars and other destinations; develop the innovative [...]
orbital spaceflight (or orbital flight) is a spaceflight in which a spacecraft is placed on a trajectory where it could remain in space for at least one orbit. To do this around the Earth, it must be on a free trajectory which has an altitude at perigee (altitude at closest approach) above (this is, by [...]
Zarya spacecraft was a major project of the late 1980s aiming to design and build a much larger replacement for the Soyuz spacecraft. After the project was shelved in January 1989, for financial reasons, the name was reused for Zarya the first of the components of the International Space Station. Adapted from the Wikipedia article [...]
During the early years of spaceflight only nation states had the resources to develop and fly spacecraft. Both the U.S. space program and Soviet space program were operated using mainly military pilots as astronauts. During this period, no commercial space launches were available to private operators, and no private organization was able to offer space [...]
Cygnus spacecraft is an unmanned resupply spacecraft being developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation as part of NASA’s COTS project. They are designed to transport supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) after the retirement of the Space Shuttle. Since August 2000 unmanned ISS resupply missions have been regularly flown by Russian Progress spacecraft, and by [...]
Space Shuttle ”Columbia” flew 28 flights, spent 300.74 days in space, completed 4,808 orbits, and flew in total, including its final mission. ”Columbia” was the only shuttle to have been spaceworthy during the Shuttle-Mir and International Space Station programs and yet to have never visited either Mir or ISS. In contrast, ”Discovery”, ”Atlantis”, and ”Endeavour” [...]
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