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  1. Space exploration

    The purpose of this form of space travel is used by individuals for the purpose of personal pleasure. Private spaceflight companies such as SpaceX and Blue Origin, and commercial space stations such as the Axiom Space and the Bigelow Commercial Space Station have dramatically changed the landscape of space exploration, ...

  2. Why Go to Space

    Space exploration unites the world to inspire the next generation, make ground-breaking discoveries, and create new opportunities. Technologies and missions we develop for human spaceflight have thousands of applications on Earth, boosting the economy, creating new career paths, and advancing everyday technologies all around us.

  3. PDF Origins of 21st Century Space Travel: A History of NASA's Decadal

    ure of the civilian space program over the past 30 years to develop a new vehicle to replace the Shuttle and to send astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit (LEO). The President then revealed the purpose of his visit, declaring that the mission of NASA henceforth would be "to explore space and extend a human pres-ence across our solar system."

  4. Space exploration

    space exploration, investigation, by means of crewed and uncrewed spacecraft, of the reaches of the universe beyond Earth 's atmosphere and the use of the information so gained to increase knowledge of the cosmos and benefit humanity. A complete list of all crewed spaceflights, with details on each mission's accomplishments and crew, is ...

  5. International Space Station

    The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station assembled and maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe), CSA (Canada), and their contractors. ISS is the largest space station ever built. Its primary purpose is performing microgravity and space environment experiments.

  6. Space exploration

    Space exploration is a term which describes searching outer space. There are many reasons for space exploration. The most important reasons are for scientific research and the interest of humans to learn more about outer space. For centuries, humans had dreamt of reaching outer space. Rockets made it possible in the later 20th century.

  7. The History of Space Exploration

    In addition to launching the first artificial satellite, the first dog in space, and the first human in space, the Soviet Union achieved other space milestones ahead of the United States. These milestones included Luna 2, which became the first human-made object to hit the Moon in 1959. Soon after that, the U.S.S.R. launched Luna 3.

  8. Origins of 21st-Century Space Travel

    The conceptual foundations of the President's plan had their origins in 1999, when NASA Administrator Dan Goldin initiated a Decadal Planning Team to generate viable plans for humans and robots to explore space beyond low-Earth orbit. This book provides a detailed historical account of the ideas, debates, and decisions that opened the way for ...

  9. History of Space Travel

    History of Space Travel. Learn about the history of humans traveling into space. The first earthling to orbit our planet was just two years old, plucked from the streets of Moscow barely more than a week before her historic launch. Her name was Laika. She was a terrier mutt and by all accounts a good dog. Her 1957 flight paved the way for space ...

  10. Everything you need to know about space travel (almost)

    Everything you need to know about space travel (almost) - BBC Science Focus Magazine.

  11. Space in our time: a brief history of space travel

    March 1966: Soviet Luna 10 is the first spacecraft to orbit the moon. June 1966: Surveyor 1 is the first US spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. August 1966: US Lunar Orbiter 1 enters moon orbit ...

  12. Apollo

    Apollo, project conducted by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the 1960s and '70s that landed the first humans on the Moon.All told, 24 Apollo astronauts visited the Moon and 12 of them walked on its surface.Additional NASA astronauts are scheduled to return to the Moon by 2025 as part of the Artemis space program.. In May 1961 Pres. John F. Kennedy committed ...

  13. Space Race

    The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations following World War II and had its peak with the more particular Moon Race to land on the Moon between the US moonshot and Soviet moonshot programs.

  14. SpaceX

    One of the world's first commercial spaceports designed for orbital missions, launches from Starbase will provide access to destinations in Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond. SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate ...

  15. Space Tourism: Then and Now

    Oct 25, 2021. By. Home / Space Tourism: Then and Now. Leisure travel might be a little more exciting for the world's wealthiest adventure seekers as space, long the exclusive domain of professional astronauts, is now accessible to tourists. In July 2021, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin each successfully launched suborbital tourism programs ...

  16. SpaceX

    SpaceX, American aerospace company founded in 2002 that helped usher in the era of commercial spaceflight.It was the first private company to successfully launch and return a spacecraft from Earth orbit and the first to launch a crewed spacecraft and dock it with the International Space Station (ISS). Headquarters are in Hawthorne, California. SpaceX was formed by entrepreneur Elon Musk in the ...

  17. About NASA

    At its 20 centers and facilities across the country - and the only National Laboratory in space - NASA studies Earth, including its climate, our Sun, and our solar system and beyond. We conduct research, testing, and development to advance aeronautics, including electric propulsion and supersonic flight. We develop and fund space ...

  18. Voyager 1

    Voyager 1 was the first spacecraft to cross the heliosphere, the boundary where the influences outside our solar system are stronger than those from our Sun. Voyager 1 is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. Voyager 1 discovered a thin ring around Jupiter and two new Jovian moons: Thebe and Metis.

  19. Space tourism

    Space tourism is human space travel for recreational purposes. [1] There are several different types of space tourism, including orbital, suborbital and lunar space tourism. Tourists are motivated by the possibility of viewing Earth from space, feeling weightlessness, experiencing extremely high speed and something unusual, and contributing to ...

  20. Timeline of space travel by nationality

    Other claims. The above list uses the nationality at the time of launch. Lists with differing criteria might include the following people: Pavel Popovich, first launched 12 August 1962, was the first Ukrainian-born man in space.At the time, Ukraine was a part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Michael Collins, first launched 18 July 1966 was born in Italy to American parents and was ...

  21. Space elevator

    A space elevator is conceived as a cable fixed to the equator and reaching into space. A counterweight at the upper end keeps the center of mass well above geostationary orbit level. This produces enough upward centrifugal force from Earth's rotation to fully counter the downward gravity, keeping the cable upright and taut. Climbers carry cargo up and down the cable.