In January 1961, Shepard was chosen for the first American manned mission into space.

That has not happened at all in space flying.

Much of the planning centered on the idea of a space station.

Gemini 4 (officially Gemini IV) was the second manned space flight in NASA's Project Gemini, occurring in June 1965.

With the fall of Krushchev in 1964, Korolyov was given complete control of the manned space program.

OK, we'll talk just a little bit about commercial development for human space flight.

Vostok 4 (, Orient 4 or East 4 ) was a mission in the Soviet space program.

The Soviets called this the first launch of a communications satellite from a manned space vehicle.

The crew of Georgi Shonin and Valeri Kubasov were meant to take high quality movie photography of the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 8 docking, but the rendezvous systems on all three spacecraft failed.

After his final spaceflight he continued to work for Energia, both in the Mir space station program as well as the Energia Buran development.

He only made a single spaceflight before resigning from the space program in 1986 and lecturing in technology.

This thing was designed three years after Gagarin first flew in space in 1961.

Zond 3 proceeded on a Mars trajectory, but not at a time when planetary encounter would occur.

It was the 31st shuttle mission overall, and the fifth flight for Atlantis .

Spirit, also known as MER A (Mars Exploration Rover A) or MER 2, is a robotic rover on Mars, active from 2004 to 2010.

His first spaceflight was Soyuz 12 in 1973, a test flight to check the changes made to the Soyuz spacecraft after the Soyuz 11 disaster.

The Space Race spawned pioneering efforts to launch artificial satellites, unmanned space probes of the Moon, Venus, and Mars, and human spaceflight in low Earth orbit and to the Moon.

NASA operated the shuttle, and was responsible for overall safety and control functions throughout the flight.

He took a training course for a spaceflight aboard the Mir as a backup crew flight engineer of the Mir 9 mission from January to April 1991.

Kaleri took a training course for a spaceflight aboard the Mir orbital station as a backup crew flight engineer of the Mir 3 mission from 1 April to 9 December 1987.

He is considered the father of spaceflight and the first person to conceive the space elevator, becoming inspired in 1895 by the newly constructed Eiffel Tower in Paris.

The following records were set during the STS 49 mission First flight of the shuttle Endeavour First EVA involving three astronauts.

And every dollar that flows into that will be spent more efficiently by a factor of 10 to 15. And what that means is before we know it, the progress in human space flight, with no taxpayer dollars, will be at a level of about five times as much as the current NASA budgets for human space flight.

On the other hand, the question of spaceflight puzzled the literary imaginations of such figures as Jules Verne and H. G. Wells.

On board were seven crew members the largest flight crew ever to fly on a single spacecraft at that time.

STS 51 J was the 21st NASA Space Shuttle mission and the first flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis .

The other student experiment was to fly 32 chicken eggs to determine the effects of space flight on fertilized chicken embryos.

These incidences prompted calls for safeguards in medical research.

2004 The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.

The decision on whether to appoint a reserve crew member was made on a per flight basis by flight management teams at Johnson Space Center.

Vostok 2 (, Orient 2 or East 2 ) was a Soviet space mission which carried cosmonaut Gherman Titov into orbit for a full day on August 6, 1961 to study the effects of a more prolonged period of weightlessness on the human body.

Europa The Artemis Project designed a plan to colonize Europa.

Thagard conducted medical tests concerning Space Adaptation Syndrome, a bout of nausea frequently experienced by astronauts during the early phase of a space flight.

Soyuz T 15, a mission to ferry equipment from Salyut 7 to Mir, which had to manually maneuver and dock to Mir.

A flight simulator

Mission parameters Mass Perigee Apogee Inclination 51.66 Period 88.66 minutes References

The approach was completed automatically, while the final 180 metres were achieved manually on 6 June.

Twenty seven material processing and medical experiments were carried out by the visiting crew.

The flight itself was a test of the new engine and its success meant the crew had a reliable return craft.

The main option was to fire the back up engine, but this option was not guaranteed to work, even if the engine fired.

Despite all this, their condition was slightly better than the previous long duration crew's.

Mission parameters Mass Perigee Apogee Inclination 51.65 Period 89.52 minutes References

Mission notes Both cosmonauts and astronaut Andy Thomas (arrived on STS 89) became the 25th resident crew.

The exhibit was closed due to damage from Hurricane Sandy.

The tail was never fitted with a drag chute it was fitted to the remaining orbiters in 1992.