Capability: Chinese crewed spaceflight program. Maiden Flight: 1999-11-19 Flight Life: 200 day design life. Crew Capacity: 3 Third crewed mission to the Chinese Space Station. History Shenzhou is a spacecraft used to support the Chinese manned spaceflight program. Its design resembles the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, but it is larger in size and all-new in construction. […]
Capability: Chinese crewed spaceflight program. Maiden Flight: 1999-11-19 Flight Life: 200 day design life. Crew Capacity: 3 Fourth crewed mission to the Chinese Space Station. History Shenzhou is a spacecraft used to support the Chinese manned spaceflight program. Its design resembles the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, but it is larger in size and all-new in construction. […]
Capability: Chinese crewed spaceflight program. Maiden Flight: 1999-11-19 Flight Life: 200 day design life. Crew Capacity: 3 Inside the reentry capsule were a monkey, a dog and a rabbit in a test of the spaceship’s life support systems. The reentry module separated from the rest of the spacecraft after just over seven days in orbit, […]
Capability: Chinese crewed spaceflight program. Maiden Flight: 1999-11-19 Flight Life: 200 day design life. Crew Capacity: 3 This was the first Shenzhou spacecraft launched that could have actually carried a human and as such the main objective of the mission was to test the systems required to support a human in space. On board it […]
Capability: Chinese crewed spaceflight program. Maiden Flight: 1999-11-19 Flight Life: 200 day design life. Crew Capacity: 3 The spacecraft was equipped for a manned flight, even featuring a sleeping bag, food, and medication. The windows were constructed of a new material that was designed to stay clear even after reentry to allow an astronaut to […]
Capability: Chinese crewed spaceflight program. Maiden Flight: 1999-11-19 Flight Life: 200 day design life. Crew Capacity: 3 Shenzhou 5 was the first human spaceflight mission of the Chinese space program, launched on 15 October 2003. The Shenzhou spacecraft was launched on a Long March 2F launch vehicle. History Shenzhou is a spacecraft used to support […]
Capability: Chinese crewed spaceflight program. Maiden Flight: 1999-11-19 Flight Life: 200 day design life. Crew Capacity: 3 Shenzhou 6 was the second human spaceflight of the Chinese space program, launched on October 12, 2005 on a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The Shenzhou spacecraft carried a crew of Fèi Jùnlóng […]
Capability: Chinese crewed spaceflight program. Maiden Flight: 1999-11-19 Flight Life: 200 day design life. Crew Capacity: 3 The Shenzhou spacecraft carrying the three crew members was launched 25 September 2008, by a Long March 2F (CZ-2F) rocket which lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 21:10 CST. The mission lasted three days, after […]
Capability: Chinese crewed spaceflight program. Maiden Flight: 1999-11-19 Flight Life: 200 day design life. Crew Capacity: 3 The Shenzhou 8 spacecraft was automatically docked with the Tiangong-1 space module (launched on 29 September 2011) on November 3 and again on November 14, 2011. This unmanned docking—China’s first—was followed in 2012 with the manned Shenzhou 9 […]
Capability: Chinese crewed spaceflight program. Maiden Flight: 1999-11-19 Flight Life: 200 day design life. Crew Capacity: 3 Shenzhou 9 was the second spacecraft and first crewed spacecraft to dock with the Tiangong 1 space station, which took place on 18 June. History Shenzhou is a spacecraft used to support the Chinese manned spaceflight program. Its […]
Capability: More than 100 tons to Earth orbit Flight Life: Unknown at this stage Crew Capacity: 0 Payload Capacity: 100000 First orbit-capable Starship second stage. History The Starship second stage was testing during a number of low and high altitude suborbital flights before the first orbital launch attempt. Second stage of the two-stage Starship super […]
Capability: Manned and Cargo ISS Logistics Maiden Flight: 1966-11-28 Flight Life: 200 Days Crew Capacity: 3 Soyuz 1 was a Soyuz spacecraft which launched on 23 April 1967 00:35 UTC. It was the first manned flight of the Soyuz program carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov. The landing failed due to parachute failure. It was the […]
Capability: Manned and Cargo ISS Logistics Maiden Flight: 1966-11-28 Flight Life: 200 Days Crew Capacity: 3 Soyuz 10 was a Soyuz spacecraft which launched on 22 April 1971 23:54 UTC. It transported three cosmonauts on the first flight to Salyut 1, but docking failed. The crew was Vladimir Shatalov, Aleksei Yeliseyev, and Nikolai Rukavishnikov. History […]
Capability: Manned and Cargo ISS Logistics Maiden Flight: 1966-11-28 Flight Life: 200 Days Crew Capacity: 3 Soyuz 10 (Russian: ‘Союз 10’, Union 10) was launched on 22 April 1971 as the world’s first mission to the world’s first space station, the Soviet Salyut 1. The docking was not successful and the crew returned to Earth […]
Capability: Manned and Cargo ISS Logistics Maiden Flight: 1966-11-28 Flight Life: 200 Days Crew Capacity: 3 Soyuz 11 was a Soyuz spacecraft which launched on 6 June 1971 04:55 UTC. It transported three cosmonauts on the second flight to Salyut 1. The crew was Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev. History The Soyuz TMA-M […]
