2008Sep 28On Sep 28, 2008, Three flights had failed. By the fourth, the company's funds were nearly gone, and another failure would have closed the program. On 28 September 2008, a Falcon 1 lifted from…Read on →
2025Oct 13On Oct 13, 2025, Orbital Launch Pad 1 at Starbase had launched every integrated Starship since the first. After this flight it would close for retrofit to handle the larger Block 3 vehicles. On 13…Read on →
2015Jun 28On Jun 28, 2015, A single strut held a pressurized helium bottle inside the second stage's liquid oxygen tank. On 28 June 2015, 139 seconds after CRS-7 lifted from Cape Canaveral, that strut gave…Read on →
1969Jul 3On Jul 3, 1969, Thirteen days before Apollo 11 lifted off from Kennedy, the Soviet Union destroyed its own lunar launch pad. On 3 July 1969, in the late evening Moscow time, the second N1 — serial…Read on →
1957Oct 4On Oct 4, 1957, A polished aluminium sphere, 58 centimetres across and 83.6 kilograms, was what the Soviet Union placed into orbit on 4 October 1957 at 22:28 Moscow time. It carried no instruments…Read on →
2024Mar 14On Mar 14, 2024, On 14 March 2024 — the twenty-second anniversary of SpaceX's founding — the third integrated Starship lifted from Boca Chica and became the first to reach orbital velocity. The…Read on →
1998Nov 20On Nov 20, 1998, The first piece of the International Space Station was Russian hardware paid for almost entirely by the United States. Zarya — "sunrise" in Russian — was a 19,323 kg cylinder built…Read on →
1997Oct 15On Oct 15, 1997, Huygens descended through the atmosphere of Titan on 14 January 2005 and settled onto its surface — 1.2 billion kilometres from Earth, the farthest any spacecraft has ever landed…Read on →
2017May 1On May 1, 2017, Since 2006, United Launch Alliance had held the exclusive franchise for launching payloads for the National Reconnaissance Office. On 1 May 2017, SpaceX entered that domain for the…Read on →
2024Oct 13On Oct 13, 2024, The launch tower at Starbase had been built as both pad and landing site. Its two mechanical arms, mounted to the tower itself, were designed to grip an orbital-class booster…Read on →
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