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Spacecraft involved in extravehicular activity
- Apollo 12Apollo 12 launched into a sky that had no business sending anyone to the Moon. On the 14th of November 1969, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, rain fell…
- Apollo 15Apollo 15 launched on the 26th of July 1971, and from the moment it left the ground, it was a different kind of Moon mission.
- Apollo 17Apollo 17 launched at 12:33 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on the 7th of December 1972, blazing into the night sky above Florida.
- Apollo 14Apollo 14 launched on the 31st of January 1971, carrying three astronauts on a mission that no one in the program could afford to lose.
- Apollo 16Apollo 16 launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the 16th of April, 1972, carrying three men toward a highland plain that scientists were certain…
- Apollo 9Apollo 9 launched on the 3rd of March 1969, carrying three men into low Earth orbit aboard the first complete Apollo spacecraft ever flown.
- Voskhod 2Voskhod 2 launched at 07:00 GMT on the 18th of March 1965, carrying two Soviet cosmonauts into orbit on a mission that had never been attempted before.
- International Space StationThe International Space Station travels at 7.67 kilometres every second, circling the Earth roughly every 93 minutes at about 400 kilometres up.
- MirMir, the Russian word for both "world" and "peace," circled the Earth for fifteen years at a height where gravity still pulled at 88% of its sea-level…
- SkylabSkylab, America's first space station, was not built from scratch. It was built from a leftover rocket stage, a repurposed piece of a Saturn V that once…