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The Spaceflight Portal Spaceflight (or space flight) is an application of astronautics to fly objects, usually spacecraft, into or through outer space, either with or without humans on board. Most spaceflight is uncrewed and conducted mainly with spacecraft such as satellites in orbit around Earth, but also includes space probes for flights beyond Earth orbit. Such spaceflights operate either by telerobotic or autonomous control. The first spaceflights began in the 1950s with the launches of the Soviet Sputnik satellites and American Explorer and Vanguard missions. Human spaceflight programs include the Soyuz, Shenzhou, the past Apollo Moon landing and the Space Shuttle programs. Other current spaceflight are conducted to the International Space Station and to China's Tiangong Space Station. (Full article...) Key topics
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 The International Space Station (ISS) is an internationally developed research facility, which is being assembled in low Earth orbit. On-orbit construction of the station began in 1998 and is scheduled for completion by 2011. The station will remain in operation until at least 2015.[1] With a greater mass than that of any previous space station, the ISS can be seen from the Earth with the naked eye,[2] and, as of 2010, is the largest artificial satellite orbiting the Earth.[3] The ISS serves as a research laboratory that has a microgravity environment in which crews conduct experiments in biology, human biology, physics, astronomy and meteorology.[4][5][6] The station has a unique environment for the testing of the spacecraft systems that will be required for missions to the Moon and Mars.[7] The ISS is operated by Expedition crews, and has been continuously staffed since 2 November 2000—an uninterrupted human presence in space for the past Template:Ageand, which is approaching the current record, set aboard Mir, of 9 years and 257 days.[8] As of 1 December 2009, the crew of Expedition 22 is aboard.[9] Spaceflight news
Selected biographyPortal:Spaceflight/Selected biography/February 2025  Robert Donald Cabana (Colonel, USMC, Ret.) is the director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, a former astronaut, and a veteran of four Space Shuttle flights. He is also a former Naval Flight Officer in the United States Marine Corps. He has logged over 7,000 hours in 34 different kinds of aircraft. Did you know...Portal:Spaceflight/Did you know/February 2025
 New Horizons is a NASA robotic spacecraft mission that was launched on January 19, 2006 and is currently en route to the dwarf planet Pluto. It is expected to be the first spacecraft to fly by and study Pluto and its moons, Charon, Nix, and Hydra. NASA may also approve flybys of one or more other Kuiper Belt Objects. In addition to the scientific equipment, there are several cultural artifacts travelling with the spacecraft. These include a collection of 434,738 names stored on a compact disc,[10] a piece of Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne,[11] and an American flag, along with other mementos.[12] One of the trim weights on the spacecraft is a Florida state quarter, and principal investigator Alan Stern has also confirmed that some of the ashes of Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh are aboard the spacecraft.[13] Spaceflight listsCategoriesWikiProjectsAssociated WikimediaRelated portalsSelected pictureNext scheduled launchOn This Day20 February
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- ^ "Expedition 22". NASA. Retrieved 1 December 2009.
- ^ "Send Your Name to Pluto". New Horizons website. Johns Hopkins APL. Retrieved January 30, 2009.
- ^ "Pluto Mission to Carry Piece of SpaceShipOne". Space.com. December 20, 2005.
- ^ "To Pluto, With Postage". collectSPACE. October 28, 2008.
- ^ title=www.space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html New Horizons launches on voyage to Pluto and beyond (January 19, 2006, from 'spaceflightnow.com'. Retrieved October 23, 2007.)