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2017 in spaceflight. Notable spaceflight activities in 2017 included the maiden orbital flight of India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III (also called LVM3) on 5 June and the first suborbital test of Rocket Lab 's Electron rocket, inaugurating the Mahia spaceport in New Zealand.
Based on observations spanning 80 days, ʻOumuamua's orbital eccentricity is 1.20, the highest ever observed until 2I/Borisov was discovered in August 2019. An eccentricity exceeding 1.0 means an object exceeds the Sun's escape velocity , is not bound to the Solar System, and may escape to interstellar space.
SpaceX began testing of the SpaceX Starship in 2019, with an uncrewed prototype "Starhopper" flying 150m in the air in a suborbital test flight on 27 August. The heavy-lift Long March 5 made its return to flight in December, more than two years after the July 2017 launch failure that grounded the vehicle and forced an engine redesign.
Budget. $21.4 million [3] Box office. $325,950 [3] [2] Lucy in the Sky is a 2019 American psychological drama film loosely inspired by the life of NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak, who is portrayed by Natalie Portman. [4] The film was directed, co-produced, and co-written by Noah Hawley in his feature directorial debut.
Ad Astra is a 2019 American psychological science fiction film produced, co-written, and directed by James Gray.Starring Brad Pitt (who also produced), Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Liv Tyler, and Donald Sutherland, it follows an astronaut who ventures into space in search of his lost father, whose obsessive quest to discover intelligent alien life at all costs threatens the Solar System and ...
7 August 1959: First photograph of Earth from Earth orbit. USA Explorer 6: 13 September 1959: First spacecraft to impact another celestial body (the Moon). First delivery of national pennants to a celestial body. USSR Luna 2: 4 October 1959: First photos of another world from space: the far side of the Moon. First gravity assist. USSR Luna 3
The Lucy spacecraft is the centerpiece of a US$981 million mission. [7] It was launched on 16 October 2021. On 4 January 2017, Lucy was chosen, along with the Psyche mission, as NASA's Discovery Program missions 13 and 14 respectively. [6] [8]
Creola Katherine Johnson ( née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020) was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. [1] [2] During her 33-year career at NASA and its predecessor, she earned a reputation for ...