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Probably the most dangerous part of a space mission is launch which is why almost all crewed spacecraft have had launch abort options to cover all […]
Launch is one of the more dangerous phases of any crewed space mission. Sitting on top of a high-performance rocket filled with hundreds of metric tons […]
With over 140 crewed missions flown over the last half a century, the Russian Soyuz is the longest-serving and most-flown crewed spacecraft design of the Space […]
According to the FAI (Fédération Aéronautique Internationale) which maintains records for aeronautical activities, the “official” threshold of space is at an altitude of 100 kilometers which […]
With the loss of the Agena target vehicle shortly after it was launched on October 25, 1965 and no replacement immediately available, NASA scrapped the original […]
The space-related accidents that have been in the news recently are reminders of the inherent dangers of spaceflight. And such losses are certainly more keenly felt […]
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