List of articles in "Satellite" category - Page 179

Mercury-Atlas 7 launched May 24 1962 was the fourth flight of Project Mercury the first manned space program of the United States. The Mercury spacecraft named Aurora 7 made three […]

Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) was the third human spaceflight for the US and part of Project Mercury. Conducted by NASA on February 20 1962 the mission was piloted by astronaut John […]

Mercury-Redstone 4 was the second United States human spaceflight on July 21 1961. The suborbital Project Mercury flight was launched with a Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle MRLV-8. The spacecraft Mercury capsule […]

Mercury-Redstone 3 or Freedom 7 was the first United States human spaceflight on 5 May 1961 piloted by astronaut Alan Shepard. It was the first manned flight of Project Mercury […]

Gemini 3 was the first manned mission in NASA’s Gemini program the second American manned space program. On March 23 1965 the spacecraft nicknamed Molly Brown performed the seventh manned […]

Alouette 1 was Canada’s first satellite and the first satellite constructed by a country other than the USSR or the United States. Canada was the fourth country to operate a […]

SMART-1 was a Swedish-designed European Space Agency satellite that orbited around the Moon. It was launched on September 27 2003 at 23:14 UTC from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou […]

TIROS I (or TIROS-1) was the first successful low-Earth orbital weather satellite and the first of a series of Television Infrared Observation Satellites.

Soyuz 21 (Russian: Союз 21 Union 21) was a 1976 Soviet manned mission to the Salyut 5 space station the first of three flights to the station. The mission’s objectives […]

STS-50 (U.S. Microgravity Laboratory 1) was a United States Space Shuttle mission the 12th mission of the Columbia orbiter. Columbia landed at Kennedy Space Center for the first time ever […]