The year 2021 broke the record for the most orbital launch attempts till then (146) and most humans in space concurrently (19) despite the effects of COVID-19 pandemic.
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24 November 2021. In the United States, Virgin Galactic conducted the first suborbital human spaceflight from New Mexico on 22 May 2021 with SpaceShipTwo...
or without humans on board. Most spaceflight is uncrewed and conducted mainly with spacecraft such as satellites in orbit around Earth, but also includes...
Galactic Unity 22 was a sub-orbital spaceflight of the SpaceShipTwo-class VSS Unity which launched on 11 July 2021. The crew consisted of pilots David...
and firsts inspaceflight are broadly divided into crewed and uncrewed categories. Records involving animal spaceflight have also been noted in earlier experimental...
Human spaceflight (also referred to as manned spaceflight or crewed spaceflight) is spaceflight with a crew or passengers aboard a spacecraft, often with...
[Chronicle of space exploration]. CosmoWorld (in Russian). Generic references: view talk edit Spaceflight portal Wade, Mark. "R-7". Archived from the original...
public spaceflight, which is traditionally conducted by government agencies like NASA, ESA, or JAXA. The emergence of private spaceflight companies in the...
list of all crewed spaceflights throughout history. Beginning in 1961 with the flight of Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1, crewed spaceflight occurs when a human...
Human spaceflight programs have been conducted, started, or planned by multiple countries and companies. Until the 21st century, human spaceflight programs...
Retrieved 2 May 2021. Clark, Stephen (3 June 2021). "SpaceX cargo ship launches on mission to upgrade space station electrical grid". Spaceflight Now. Retrieved...
documents notable spaceflight events during the year 2020. The GECAM A and B satellites were launched on 9 December. They were built for research in electromagnetic...
13 March 2022. "NASA SpaceX Crew-2 to Discuss Station Mission, Upcoming Splashdown". NASA. 4 November 2021. Retrieved 2021-11-05. Portal: Spaceflight...
(nicknamed The Flies) was announced on December 6, 2021, with the class reporting for duty some time in 2022. Twelve astronaut candidates were selected,...
Spacewalk at Station". NASA. Retrieved 16 March 2021. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Portal: Spaceflight...
This article documents expected notable spaceflight events during the year 2026. In 2026, NASA is expected to launch the Artemis III mission, which will...
Spaceflightin 2025 promises to follow the 2020s trend of record breaking orbital launches and increased developments in lunar, Mars and low-earth orbit...