Apollo 1 – The Site Of A Mission That Never Flew To Cape Canaveral
AS-204, was the first crewed mission of the United States Apollo program, the undertaking to…
The Alcântara Launch Center – The satellite launching facility of the Brazilian Space Agency in Alcântara
Located on Brazil’s northern Atlantic coast, in the state of Maranhão. It is operated by…
Telstar – The world’s first commercial communications satellite is being exhibited in Washington D.C.
The first two Telstar satellites were experimental and nearly identical. Telstar 1 launched on…
Gran Telescopio Canarias – One of the world’s largest optical reflecting telescope in La Palma
A 10.4 meters telescope, began with the leadership of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias…
Voyager 2 – The “tireless” space probe travels in Outer space
A spacecraft exploring where nothing from Earth has flown before, continuing on his more-than-40-year journey…
Apollo 10 – The Command Module is being exhibited in London
The fourth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, and the second to orbit…
International UFO Museum and Research Center – The location of the UFO history in Roswell
Museum is focused largely on the Roswell Crash and later supposed UFO incidents. It was…
John F. Kennedy Space Center – The Launch Operations Center of NASA in Titusville
One of ten National Aeronautics and Space Administration field centers. Located on the east
Stargazer – The first successful space telescope in Earth orbit
The Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2, launched on December 7, 1968. An Atlas-Centaur rocket launched it…
Sputnik 1 – The full-scale replicas of the world’s first satellite are being exhibited in New York and Sydney
The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October
OV-099 Challenger – The space shuttle disaster next to Cape Canaveral
A fatal incident in the United States space program that occurred on January
Belka and Strelka – The Soviet Space Dogs resting at the Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow
Korabl-Sputnik 2 was a Soviet artificial satellite, and the third test flight of the Vostok…
Zweibrücken Observatory – The giant R2-D2 Observatory in Zweibrücken
The 4.60 metres diameter dome was erected in 2002. The dome houses a optical telescope,…
The original Lunar Rock displayed in Speyer
The moon rock was chipped off from a basalt boulder in the Hadley-Apennine landing site…
Columbia – The flight deck windows at the Kennedy Space Center
The Space Shuttle disaster was a fatal incident in the United States space program that…
Galileo – The first probe in Jupiter orbit
American spacecraft that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as several other…
COS-B – The first European Space mission in low Earth orbit
The mission consisted of a satellite containing gamma-ray detectors, which was launched by NASA on…
Shenzhou 5 – The first Chinese manned flight in space
China became the third country in the world to have independent human spaceflight capability after…