Currently the following spacecraft and spaceports are
Historically, the following spacecraft and spaceports have
So your here because your curious about
spacecraft. Well, here is a list of space craft:
Manned Spacecraft:
used for launching human spaceflights:
Soyuz with Soyuz
rocket—Baikonur
Cosmodrome
Space Shuttle—Kennedy
Space Center
International Space Station (ISS)—Assembled
in orbit; crews transported by the previous two spacecraft
Shenzhou spacecraft with Long
March rocket—Jiuquan
Satellite Launch Center
also been used for human spaceflight launches:
Vostok—Baikonur Cosmodrome
Mercury—Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station
Voskhod—Baikonur Cosmodrome
X-15—Edwards
Air Force Base,[4] (two
internationally recognized suborbital flights in program)
Gemini—Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
Apollo—Kennedy Space Center (Apollo 7 at Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station)
Salyut space station—Baikonur
Cosmodrome
Almaz space station—Baikonur
Cosmodrome (Almaz was a series of military space stations under cover of the
civilian name Salyut)
Skylab space station—Kennedy
Space Center
Mir space station—Baikonur
Cosmodrome
SpaceShipOne with White
Knight—Mojave
Spaceport
Unnmanned Spacecraft:
Soft landing capsule
(NASA)
Main article: Robotic
spacecraft
spacecraft
- Semi-manned or
manned-spec unmanned spacecraft
Main article: Unmanned
resupply spacecraft
resupply spacecraft
-
Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)—unmanned
European cargo spacecraft -
Buran manned-spec Soviet
shuttle (one mission only) -
H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV)—unmanned
Japanese cargo spacecraft -
Progress—unmanned USSR/Russia cargo spacecraft -
TKS—manned-spec unmanned USSR cargo spacecraft
- Earth Orbit
See also: Satellite
-
Explorer 1—first US satellite -
Project SCORE—first communications satellite -
SOHO -
Sputnik 1—world’s first artificial satellite -
Sputnik 2—first animal in orbit (Laika) -
Sputnik 5—first capsule recovered from orbit (Vostok precursor)—animals
survived -
STEREO—Earth environment observation -
Syncom—first geosynchronous communications satellite -
X-37—spaceplane - There are more than over 2,000
spacecrafts in orbit.
- Lunar
-
Clementine—US Navy mission, orbited Moon, detected hydrogen at the poles -
Kaguya JPN—Lunar orbiter -
Luna 1—first lunar flyby -
Luna 2—first lunar impact -
Luna 3—first images of lunar far side -
Luna 9—first soft landing on the Moon -
Luna 10—first lunar orbiter -
Luna 16—first unmanned lunar sample retrieval -
Lunar Orbiter—very successful series of lunar mapping spacecraft -
Lunar Prospector—confirmed detection of hydrogen at the lunar poles -
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter—Identifies safe landing sites & Locates
moon resources -
SMART-1 ESA—Lunar Impact -
Surveyor—first USA soft lander -
Chandrayaan 1 —first Indian
Lunar mission
- Planetary
-
Akatsuki JPN— a Venus orbiter -
Cassini-Huygens—first Saturn orbiter
+ Titan lander -
Galileo—first Jupiter orbiter+descent
probe -
IKAROS JPN— first solar-sail spacecraft -
Mariner 4—first Mars flyby,
first close and high resulution images of Mars -
Mariner 9—first Mars orbiter -
Mariner 10—first Mercury flyby,
first close up images -
Mars Exploration Rover—a Mars rover -
Mars Express—a Mars orbiter -
Mars Global Surveyor—a Mars orbiter -
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter—an advanced climate, imaging, sub-surface
radar, and telecommunications Mars orbiter -
MESSENGER—first Mercury orbiter (arrival 2011) -
Mars Pathfinder—a Mars lander + rover -
New Horizons—first Pluto flyby
(arrival 2015) -
Pioneer 10—first Jupiter flyby,
first close up images -
Pioneer 11—second Jupiter flyby
+ first Saturn flyby (first close up images of Saturn) -
Pioneer Venus—first Venus orbiter+landers -
Venera 4—first soft landing on another planet (Venus) -
Viking 1—first soft landing on Mars -
Voyager 2—Jupiter flyby + Saturn flyby + first flybys/images of Neptune and Uranus
- Other—deep space
Main article: Space
probe
probe
-
Cluster -
Deep Space 1 -
Deep Impact (space mission) -
Genesis -
Hayabusa -
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous -
Stardust -
WMAP
- Fastest spacecraft
-
Helios I & II Solar
Probes (252,792 km/h/157,078
mph)
- Furthest spacecraft
from the Sun
-
Voyager 1 at 106.3 AU as
of July 2008, traveling outward at about 3.6 AU/year -
Pioneer 10 at 89.7 AU as
of 2005, traveling outward at about 2.6 AU/year -
Voyager 2 at 85.49 AU as
of July 2008, traveling outward at about 3.3 AU/year
- Heaviest spacecraft
NASA STS Space
Shuttle/Orbiter (109,000 kilograms / 107 long tons; 120 short tons)
