Dale Gardner
American - ( NASA)
Deceased
Date of Birth: Nov. 8, 1948
Date of Death: Feb. 19, 2014
Dale Allan Gardner was a NASA astronaut who flew two Space Shuttle missions during the early 1980s.
Space Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 | STS-8
Lockheed Space Operations Company | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Aug. 30, 1983, 6:32 a.m.
Status: Success
Mission: Communications
STS-8 was the third mission of Space Shuttle Challenger. It deployed an Indian 10 and Weather satellite. It was the first night launch and night landing of the Shuttle program. It also carried the first African-American astronaut; Guion Bluford.
Low Earth Orbit
Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-51-A
United Space Alliance | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Nov. 8, 1984, 12:15 p.m.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 3-3
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA batch of 46 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Long March 6
Jilin-1 High Resolution 03D-09, 35 to 43 & Infrared A01 to 06
Launch Complex 16 - Taiyuan, People's Republic of China16 new Earth observation satellites for the Jilin-1 commercial Earth observation satellites constellation.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 4-26
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAA batch of 52 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
Khayyam & rideshare
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanKhayyam, also known as Project 505, is a Russian built Earth observation satellite for Iran. The satellite is built by VNIIEM and NPK Barl on a curre…
Ceres-1
Taijing-1-01 & 02
Unknown Pad - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaTwo commercial Earth observation satellites built by Minospace.
