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The first full-color images and spectroscopic data were released on 12 July 2022, which also marked the official beginning of Webb's general science operations. United States President Joe Biden revealed the first image, Webb's First Deep Field, on 11 July 2022. [258] [259] Additional releases around this time include: [263] [264] [265]
Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States in 1958 and was part of the U.S. participation in the International Geophysical Year (IGY). The mission followed the first two satellites, both launched by the Soviet Union during the previous year, Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2. This began a Space Race during the Cold War between the ...
Apollo–Soyuz was the first crewed international space mission, carried out jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union in July 1975. Millions of people around the world watched on television as an American Apollo spacecraft docked with a Soviet Soyuz capsule. The project, and its handshake in space, was a symbol of détente between the ...
Unknown to Lowell, his surveys had captured two faint images of Pluto on March 19 and April 7, 1915, but they were not recognized for what they were. [18] [19] There are fourteen other known precovery observations, with the earliest made by the Yerkes Observatory on August 20, 1909. [20] Clyde Tombaugh, in Kansas
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who, in 1969, became the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. Armstrong was born and raised in Wapakoneta, Ohio. He entered Purdue University, studying aeronautical ...
Explorers Program. An Explorer mission observes Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's central black hole, flaring. The Explorers program [1] is a NASA exploration program that provides flight opportunities for physics, geophysics, heliophysics, and astrophysics investigations from space. Launched in 1958, Explorer 1 was the first spacecraft of the ...
The Lucy spacecraft is the centerpiece of a US$981 million mission. [ 7] It was launched on 16 October 2021. On 4 January 2017, Lucy was chosen, along with the Psyche mission, as NASA's Discovery Program missions 13 and 14 respectively. [ 6][ 8]
Crew Dragon flights. ← SpaceX Crew-8. SpaceX Crew-9 →. Polaris Dawn is a planned private human spaceflight mission, operated by SpaceX on behalf of Shift4 CEO Jared Isaacman and is the first of three planned missions in the Polaris program. During the mission, the Crew Dragon capsule is expected to propel Isaacman and his crew of three ...