China became the third country in the world to have independent human spaceflight capability after the Soviet Union and the United States. Shenzhou 5 was the first human spaceflight mission of the Chinese space program, launched on 15 October 2003. Shenzhou was launched on a Continue Reading
The squirrel monkey who was to become known as Miss Baker was purchased at a pet shop in Miami, Florida, and brought to the Naval Aviation Medical School in Pensacola. Miss Baker was a squirrel monkey who became, along with rhesus macaque Miss Able, one Continue Reading
Space Transportation System-1 was the first orbital spaceflight of NASA’s Space Shuttle program. Columbia, launched on 12 April 1981 and returned on 14 April, having orbited the Earth 36 times. Columbia carried a crew of two – mission commander John W. Young and pilot Robert Continue Reading
The spaceport is located in the desert steppe of Baikonur, about 200 kilometres east of the Aral Sea and north of the river Syr Darya. It is near the Tyuratam railway station and is about 90 metres above sea level. Baikonur Cosmodrome is currently leased Continue Reading
