Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Concept Spacecraft . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... October . ... By admin September 30, 2011 Posted in: Human Exploration . Gemini Spacecraft: The red and gold spheres in the Equipment Module are propellant tanks and the red cylinder in the nose is the parachute pack. ... Image credit: NASA) . ... Amazingly in 2011, an outfit called Space Operations Inc proposed launching updated Geminis (rebadged as Eclipse spacecraft) for commercial clients! ...

Since the days of Sputnik and Explorer 1, thousands of spacecraft have gone into space, some of them carrying human passengers. The first person to orbit the Earth was the Russian Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. The first American to do so was John Glenn, who completed three orbits on February 20, 1962; more than 26 years later, at age 77, Glenn returned to space aboard the space shuttle. ... in orbit. ... Manned satellites include various " space stations " intended for long-term residence. ...

... November 22, 1997 . Surveyor Hops . Credit: The Surveyor Project, NASA . Explanation: This panorama of the cratered lunar surface was constructed from images returned by the US Surveyor 6 lander. ... After touching down near the center of the Moon's nearside in November of 1967, NASA controllers commanded the spacecraft to hop . Briefly firing its rocket engine and lifting itself some 4 meters above the surface, the Surveyor moved about 2.5 meters to one side before setting down again. ...

... The first person to orbit the Earth was the Russian Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. The first American to do so was John Glenn, who completed three orbits on February 20, 1962; more than 26 years later, at age 77, Glenn returned to space aboard the space shuttle. ... Any manned mission faces the problem of safe return to Earth, which requires getting rid of the huge amount of energy associated with orbital motion. A spacecraft in low Earth orbit moves at about 24 times the velocity of sound. ...

... LAND LAUNCH . ... October 20 - November 13, 2009 . Prelaunch processing of Block DM-SLB №4L within the Zenit-3SLB ILV. ... November 6 - 12, 2009 . ... State Committee accepted a decision on the Zenit-3SLB ILV roll-out to LC for ILV further processing for the INTELSAT 15 SC launch. ... On December 1, 2009 at 00:00 Moscow time (on November 30, 2009 at 21:00 UTC) the launch of the Zenit-3SLB ILV with the Intelsat 15 spacecraft was performed. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

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... Sun images . ... November : 2015 . ... Image of Sun's photosphere obtained 09.11.2015 at 23:40 UT with HMI instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ... Image of Sun's magnetic field obtained 09.11.2015 at 23:52 UT with HMI instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ... Image of Sun's transition region obtained 09.11.2015 at 23:36 UT with AIA instrument on board SDO spacecraft . Image of Sun's corona . Image of Sun's corona obtained 09.11.2015 at 23:36 UT with AIA instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ...

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... Credit: Surveyor Project, NASA Explanation: This panorama of the cratered lunar surface was constructed from images returned by the US Surveyor 6 lander. Surveyor 6 was not the first spacecraft to accomplish a soft landing on the Moon ... but it was the first to land and then lift off again! After the spacecraft touched down near the center of the Moon's nearside in November of 1967, NASA controllers commanded it to hop . ... Publications with keywords: surveyor 6 - spacecraft - Moon . ...

... The Surveyor probes were the first U.S. spacecraft to land safely on the Moon . The main objectives of the Surveyors were to obtain close-up images of the lunar surface and to determine if the terrain was safe for manned landings. ... The successful missions and landing dates are: Surveyor 1 on June 2, 1966; Surveyor 3 on April 19, 1967; Surveyor 5 on September 10, 1967; Surveyor 6 on November 9, 1967; and Surveyor 7 on January 9, 1968. ... Surveyor 7 Panorama of Tycho Crater . ...