ESA dixit:
“ESA\’s ATV-4 launch images taken by the Sterex experiment. These images provide a stunning vision of the Ariane 5 launch, including liftoff, boosters separation and ATV-4 release. The video system was developed by Kayser-Threde GmbH for ESA and DLR and integrated on Ariane by Astrium GmbH. Usage for ATV-4 was financed by DLR and ESA and supported by Arianespace and CNES.”
Credit: ESA
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Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States. It ran from 1959 through 1963 with two goals: putting a human in orbit around the Earth, and doing it before the Soviet Union, as part of the early space race. It succeeded in the first but not the second: in the first Mercury mission on 5 May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space; however the Soviet Union had put Yuri Gagarin into space (and also into orbit) one month earlier. John Glenn became the first American to reach orbit on February 20, 1962, during the third manned Mercury flight. Glenn was the third person to reach orbit, following Gagarin and Gherman Titov.
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Credit: NASA
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ESA dixit:
“Lifting off from the European Space Agencies\’ Kourou French Guiana, launch facility, the next space resupply vehicle Albert Einstein, or better known as ATV-4, heads for a rendezvous with the International Space Station. The Automated Transfer Vehicle fitted atop the Ariane 5 ES rocket weighed in at over forty four thousand pounds, making it the heaviest payload ever launched from the ESA. Within its hold is a very diverse cargo of over 1,400 different items ranging from food, spare parts,crew supplies and scientific experiments.”
Credit: ESA / Arianespace
SpaceX dixit:
“Video of SpaceX\’s 5.2m fairing — designed in-house by SpaceX — undergoing testing in the world\’s largest vacuum chamber at NASA Glenn Research Center — Plum Brook Station. SpaceX\’s fairing is used to protect a satellite during launch. Separation occurs when the rocket is traveling over 4x faster than a speeding bullet, nearly 10x the speed of sound.”
Credit: SpaceX
NASA dixit:
“After launching earlier in the day in their Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 36/37 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg and Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency arrived at the International Space Station following an accelerated six-hour rendezvous, docking their craft to the Rassvet module on the Russian segment of the complex.”
Credit: NASA
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