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NASA delivers the most visible elements of the U.S. space program. From crewed space exploration and the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon, to the Space Shuttle, International Space Station, Voyager, the Mars rovers, numerous space telescopes, and the Artemis program, NASA delivers on the civil space exploration mandate.
Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. is a British-American spaceflight company founded by Richard Branson and the Virgin Group conglomerate which retains an 11.9% stake through Virgin Investments Limited. [ 2] It is headquartered in California, and operates from New Mexico. The company develops commercial spacecraft and provides suborbital ...
Private spaceflight companies include non-governmental or privately-owned entities focused on developing and/or offering equipment and services geared towards spaceflight, both robotic and human. This list includes both inactive and active entities. List of abbreviations used in this article. LEO: Low Earth orbit.
World View Enterprises, Inc. World View Enterprises, Inc., doing business as World View, is a private American near space exploration and technology company headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, founded with the goal of increasing access to and the utilization of the stratosphere for scientific, commercial, economic, and military [ 1] purposes.
Space Launch System (2022-present) RS1 (2023-present) Terran 1 (2023) SpaceX Starship (2023-present) Vulcan Centaur (2024-present) New Glenn (Under development, expected 2024) Rocket 4 (Under development, expected 2025) Neutron (Under development, expected 2025) Red Dwarf (Under development, expected 2024) Terran R (Under development, expected ...
This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. For a list of everyone who has flown in space, see List of space travelers by name. More than 600 people have been trained as astronauts.
First human spaceflight from the State of New Mexico. Reached an altitude of 89.24 km (55.45 mi), crossing the U.S. definition of space, but not the FAI's definition. 331 Nie Haisheng (3) Liu Boming (2) Tang Hongbo: 17 June 2021 Shenzhou 12: TSS: 17 September 2021 Shenzhou 12: First crew to Tiangong Space Station. — David Mackay Michael ...
Andreas Mogensen, joint 544th person and the first Dane in space. Aidyn Aimbetov, joint 544th person and the first solely Kazakh cosmonaut. Hazza Al Mansouri, joint 564th person and the first in space from the UAE. Jeff Bezos, joint 571st person and the founder of spaceflight company Blue Origin.