The year 2011 saw a number of significant events in spaceflight including the retirement of NASA’s Space Shuttle after its final flight in July 2011 and the launch of China’s first space station module Tiangong-1 in September. A total of 84 orbital launches were conducted over the course of the year of which 78 were successful.
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