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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
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.
Retrieved 7 December2019. ^McDowell, Jonathan [@planet4589](6 December 2019). "The Kosmos-2542 satellite, in a 368 x 857 km x 97 deg orbit, deployed a subsatellite today (likely codenamed Kosmos-2543). The Russian Defense Ministry says it's an inspector satellite; the mission appears to repeat Kosmos-2519/2521.
The end and safe landing of Demo-2 on August 2, 2020 marked the first splashdown in 45 years for NASA astronauts since the first Apollo–Soyuz U.S./U.S.S.R international space mission in July 1975, as well as the first splashdown of a crew spacecraft in the Gulf of Mexico.
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 ...
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.
List of space agencies. As of 2024, 77 different government space agencies are in existence, including 70 national space agencies and seven international agencies. Initial competencies demonstrated include funding and nomination of a candidate to serve as astronaut, cosmonaut, or taikonaut with the countries/organizations executing human spaceflight solutions.
Personal income in the United States: Increase 0.5% in November 2019, compared to +0.1% in October; Wages and salaries increase 0.4% in November, compared to 0.5% in October. [511] Current account deficit: Down $1.1 billion, or 0.9%, to $124.1 billion in the third quarter of 2019.