Sentences with phrase «first human spaceflight»

Additionally, this will be the third orbital launch performed by Russia in 2018 and the first human spaceflight of the year.

This week includes the 57th anniversary of the first human spaceflight — Yuri Gagarin's one - orbit ride aboard Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, and the 37th anniversary of the first U.S. space shuttle flight — STS - 1 on April 12, 1981, with John Young and Bob Crippen at the controls.

The world party for space once again celebrates the anniversary of the first human spaceflight.

Not exact matches

More than three decades after the launch of the first space shuttle mission (and three years after the last one), investment in new human spaceflight systems is back with an intensity the aerospace industry hasn't seen since the heady days of the Space Race.

Between 1961 and 1963, six astronauts carried out successful one - person spaceflights that offered physicians and scientists the first opportunity to observe the effects of living in space on the human body.

The world's first five spaceplanes flew within the first 50 years of human spaceflight.

(That was the only time in the history of human spaceflight in the United States, Soviet Union / Russia, or China that a crew was on the first flight of a new rocket.)

I've felt that the development of private human spaceflight was the critical next step toward moving humanity off our small blue marble since I was in high school, and SpaceShipOne was the first major step in that direction.

Today is the 50th anniversary of the first spaceflight of a human being.