astronautics

On October 11, 1968, NASA launched the Apollo 7 mission by launching the Apollo CSM-101 spacecraft into orbit. It was the first manned lunar mission of the Apollo program and a key step toward the conquest of the moon. The program successfully landed a man on the moon eight months later…

On October 4, 2004, the experimental passenger spaceplane SpaceShipOne made the first private suborbital spaceflight, reaching an altitude of over 110 km. The vehicle was developed and operated by Mojave Aerospace Ventures, owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and Scaled Composites, a company owned by legendary aerospace engineer Burt Rutan. The project is worth 25 …