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• The Soyuz MS-17 launched on 14 October 2020, 05:45:04 and docked after a "two-orbit rendezvous flight plan" to the ISS only three hours later at 08:48:47 UTC.
• The OSIRIS-REx probe successfully makes brief touchdown and collects a sample from the asteroid Bennu at 22:13 UTC on 20 October 2020.
• Expedition 63 ended on 21 October 2020, 23:32 UTC after 187 days, 21 hours and 38 minutes duration.
• Expedition 64 began on 21 October 2020, 23:32:00 UTC. With ISS commander: Sergey Ryzhikov, and astronauts: Kathleen Rubins & Sergey Kud-Sverchkov.
• Soyuz MS-16 landed on 22 October 2020, 02:54:12 UTC after 195 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes in space.

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File:John Glenn Low Res.jpg

John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman and politician. He was the third person and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. Following his retirement from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a Democratic United States Senator from Ohio; in 1998, he flew into space again at age 77.

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File:OSIRIS-REX SamCam TAGSAM Event 2020-10-20 small.gif

Captured on Oct. 20, 2020 during the OSIRIS-REx mission’s Touch-And-Go (TAG) sample collection event, this series of images shows the SamCam imager’s field of view as the NASA spacecraft approaches and touches down on asteroid Bennu’s surface, over 200 million miles (321 million km) away from Earth.

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• {{noping|F.Alexsandr}} (Joined on the 8^th October)
• {{noping|Dndlp}} (Joined on the 18^th October)
• {{noping|Path slopu}} (Joined on the 23^rd October)
• {{noping|Wehwalt}} (Joined on the 24^th October)
• {{noping|Whoop whoop pull up}} (Joined on the 24^th October)
• {{noping|Josecurioso}} (Joined on the 29^th October)

Number of active members: 91.

Total number of members: 295.

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• The ISS has been continuously occupied for the last 20 years! Expedition 1 arrived on 2 November 2000 with the first long-term residents. That’s longer then Wikipedia has existed.
• Crew-1 successfully launched from LC-39A on 16^th November 2020, at 00:11:15 (UTC). Later, on 17^th November 2020, 04:00 (UTC) Michael S. Hopkins, Victor J. Glover, Soichi Noguchi and Shannon Walker joined Expedition 64 and the crew of MS-17 on the ISS.
• Arianespace had a launch failure after liftoff of its Vega rocket on the 17^th November. Two satellites were lost due to an integration error of the fourth stage.

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File:Surveyor 3-Apollo 12.jpg

Apollo 12 was the sixth crewed flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon. It was launched on November 14, 1969, from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, four months after Apollo 11. Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad and Apollo Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean performed just over one day and seven hours of lunar surface activity while Command Module Pilot Richard F. Gordon remained in lunar orbit. The landing site for the mission was located in the southeastern portion of the Ocean of Storms.

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File:STS-97 ISS.jpg

This is an image of the ISS from December 9, 2000. Almost 20 years ago, this image is one of a series of 70mm frames taken onboard Space Shuttle Endeavour. With the ISS being continuously occupied for the last 20 years, this shows how the space station has developed over the years.

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New Members:

• {{noping|Springfield2020}} (Joined on the 2^nd November)
• {{noping|Helwr}} (Joined on the 12^th November)
• {{noping|Hportfacts5}} (Joined on the 28^th November)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 94.

Total number of members: 298.}}

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November Launches
All times stated here are in UTC.

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1. {{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 - GPS 3 SV04 (5^th at 23:24:23) {{Space icon|s}}
2. {{flagicon|China}} Long March 6 - ÑuSat 9-18 (6^th at 3:19) {{Space icon|s}}
3. {{flagicon|China}} Ceres-1 - Tianqi-11 (7^th at 7:12) {{Space icon|s}}
4. {{flagicon|India}} PSLV-DL - EOS 1 (7^th at 9:41 {{Space icon|s}}
5. {{flagicon|China}} Long March 3B - Tiantong 1-02 (12^th at 15:59:04) {{Space icon|s}}
6. {{flagicon|USA}} Atlas 5 - NROL-101 (13^th at 22:32) {{Space icon|s}}
7. {{flagicon|USA}} {{Space icon|c}} Falcon 9 - Crew-1 (16^th at 00:27:17) {{Space icon|s}}
8. {{flagicon|France}} Vega - SEOSat-Ingenio & Taranis (17^th at 01:52:20) {{Space icon|f}}
9. {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} Electron - "Return to Sender" (20^th at 01:44) {{Space icon|s}}
10. {{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 - Sentinel 6-Michael Freilich (21^st at 17:71:08) {{Space icon|s}}
11. {{flagicon|China}} Long March 5 - Chang’e 5 (23^rd at 20:30:12) {{Space icon|s}}
12. {{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L15 (25^th at 02:13:12) {{Space icon|s}}
13. {{flagicon|Japan}} H-IIA - Optical Data Relay Satellite (29^th at 7:25) {{Space icon|s}}

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December Launches
Launch dates can change. See a current list: here.

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• Soyuz - Falcon Eye 2
• Soyuz - Gonets M
• Falcon 9 - SpaceX CRS 21
• Long March 11 - GECAM
• Falcon 9 - Turksat 5A
• Soyuz - Progress 77P
• Angara A5 - Test Flight
• Electron - The Owl's Night Begins
• PSLV-XL - CMS 1
• Soyuz - OneWeb 4
• LauncherOne - ELaNa 20
• Long March 8 - XJY 7
• Soyuz - CSO 2
• Delta 4 Heavy - NROL-44
• Delta IV Heavy - NROL-82
• Falcon 9 - NROL-108
• Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L16
• Falcon 9 - SXM 7
• SSLV - Demonstration Launch

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• The Chang’e 5 lander landed on the moon on December 1^st, and started to gather lunar samples.
• The Chang’e 5 ascent module launched from the moons surface on December 3^rd and later docked with the service module in lunar orbit.
• Hayabusa-2 has successfuly returned samples it collected from the asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It landed in South Australia on 5^th December after a 6 year mission.
• SpaceX Starship SN8 completed a 12.5km flight and successfully made it back to the launch pad however was unable to slow down and hit the ground creating an impressive fireball.
• China becomes the third country to terurn samples from the moon. After the Chang'e-5 return capsule lands in Inner Mongolia at 01:59 local time on December 13^th.

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File:Mary_Jackson_1979_Portrait_(LRC-1979-B701_P-07085).jpg

Mary Jackson (née Winston, April 9, 1921 – February 11, 2005) was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at NACA, which was succeeded by NASA. She worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career. She started as a computer at the segregated West Area Computing division in 1951. She took advanced engineering classes and, in 1958, became NASA's first black female engineer.

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File:Apollo 11 Lunar Lander - 5927 NASA.jpg

With China becoming the third country to return moon samples back to earth, this is an image of the Apollo 11 Lunar Lander being worked on by Buzz Aldrin. This mission was the first time moon samples were brought back to earth. This image was taken over 51 years ago on July 21, 1969.

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New Members:

• {{noping|ExoEditor}} (Joined on the 14^th December)
• {{noping|XFalcon2004x}} (Joined on the 16^th December)
• {{noping|PythosIsAwesome}} (Joined on the 17^th December)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 97.

Total number of members: 301.}}

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December Launches
All times stated here are in UTC.

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1. {{flagicon|Russia}} Soyuz - Falcon Eye 2 (2^nd at 01:33:28) {{Space icon|s}}
2. {{flagicon|Russia}} Soyuz - Gonets-M (3^rd at 01:14:36) {{Space icon|s}}
3. {{flagicon|China}} {{Space icon|m}} Chang'e 5 (3^rd at 15:10) {{Space icon|s}}
4. {{flagicon|China}} Long March 3B - Gaofen 14 (6^th at 03:58) {{Space icon|s}}
5. {{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 - SpaceX CRS 21 (6^th at 15:17:08) {{Space icon|s}}
6. {{flagicon|China}} Long March 11 - GECAM (9^th at 20:14) {{Space icon|s}}
7. {{flagicon|USA}} Delta 4 Heavy - NROL 44 (11^th at 1:09) {{Space icon|s}}
8. {{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 - SXM 7 (13^th at 17:20) {{Space icon|s}}
9. {{flagicon|Russia}} Angara A5 - Test Flight (14^th at 5:50:00) {{Space icon|s}}
10. {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} Electron - The Owl's Night Begins (15^th at 10:09:27) {{Space icon|s}}
11. {{flagicon|USA}} Rocket 3 - Test Flight (15^th at 20:55) {{Space icon|f}}
12. {{flagicon|India}} PSLV-XL - CMS1 (17^th at 10:11) {{Space icon|s}}
13. {{flagicon|Russia}} Soyuz - OneWeb 4 (18^th at 12:26:26) {{Space icon|s}}
14. {{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 - NROL-108 (19^th at 14:00) {{Space icon|s}}
15. {{flagicon|China}} Long March 8 - XJY 7 (22^nd at 04:37:37) {{Space icon|s}}
16. {{flagicon|China}} Long March 4C - Yaogan 33 (27^th at 15:$4) {{Space icon|s}}
17. {{flagicon|Russia}} Soyuz - CSO 2 (29^th at 16:42:07) {{Space icon|s}}

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January Launches
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• Falcon 9 - Türksat 5A
• Falcon 9 - Transporter 1
• LauncherOne - ELaNa 20
• Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L16
• Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L17
• Firefly Alpha - Dream 1
• Hyperbola-1 - (Second Flight)
• Jielong 1 - Hainan-1

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• The NASA Space Launch System test-fire of the core stage on 16 January triggered a shutdown due to an hydraulic system issue. The test which was intended to last eight minutes, lasted just over one minute.
• Space X sets a new world record for the number of satellites launched. 143 small satellites were launched on a Falcon 9 on 24 January.

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File:Charles Conrad (S64-31465).jpg

Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. (June 2, 1930 – July 8, 1999) was an American NASA astronaut, aeronautical engineer, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and commanded the Apollo 12 space mission, on which he became the third person to walk on the Moon. Conrad was selected in NASA's second astronaut class in 1962.

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This is an image of Dr. von Braun standing infront of the five F-1 engines of the Saturn V Dynamic Test Vehicle on display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The engines measured 19-feet tall by 12.5-feet at the nozzle exit and burned 15 tons of liquid oxygen and kerosene each second to produce 7,500,000 pounds of thrust.

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New Members:

• {{noping|Tell284}} (Joined on the 10^th January)
• {{noping|N828335}} (Joined on the 12^th January)
• {{noping|Alpacaaviator}} (Joined on the 13^th January)
• {{noping|BugWarp}} (Joined on the 18^th January)
• {{noping|Jogesh 69}} (Joined on the 23^rd January)
• {{noping|giolibreak}} (Joined on the 24^th January)
• {{noping|Jared.h.wood}} (Joined on the 25^th January)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 98.

Total number of members: 308.}}

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January Launches
All times stated here are in UTC.

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1. {{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Türksat 5A (8^th at 02:15) {{Space icon|s}}
2. {{flagicon|USA}} LauncherOne – ELaNa-20 (17^th at 19:38:51) {{Space icon|s}}
3. {{flagicon|China}} Long March 3B/E – Tiantong 1-03 (19^th at 16:25) {{Space icon|s}}
4. {{flagicon|NZ}} Electron (rocket) – Another One Leaves the Crust {{nobreak|(20^th at 07:26) {{Space icon|s}}}}
5. {{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L16 (20^th at 13:02) {{Space icon|s}}
6. {{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Transporter 1 (24^th at 13:02) {{Space icon|s}}
7. {{flagicon|China}} Long March 4C – Yaogan 31-02 (29^th at 04:47) {{Space icon|s}}

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February Launches
Launch dates can change. See a current list: here.

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• Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L17
• Soyuz-2.1b – Lotos-S
• Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L18
• Long March 3B/E – Tianhui-3
• Soyuz-2.1a – Progress 77P
• Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L19
• PSLV – Amazônia 1
• Antares – NG 15

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• The Hope orbiter reached mars on 9 February 2021. Seven months after its launch on 19 July 2020.
• Confirmation of the Perseverance rover successfully landing on Mars was recieved at 20:55 UTC on 18 February 2021. With the first photo from the same day.

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File:Mars Pathfinder Lander preparations.jpg

The Mars Pathfinder is an American robotic spacecraft that landed a base station with a roving probe on Mars in 1997. It consisted of a lander, and a lightweight wheeled robotic Mars rover named Sojourner, which became the first rover to land and operate on Mars.

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The first 360-degree panorama taken by Mastcam-Z, on Perseverance.

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New Members:

• {{noping|Acronymical}} (Joined on the 11^th February)
• {{noping|RedemptionVision}} (Joined on the 12^th February)
• {{noping|Yitzilitt}} (Joined on the 12^th February)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 100.

Total number of members: 313.}}

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February Launches
All times stated here are in UTC.

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1. {{flagicon|China}} Hyperbola-1 – Multi-payload (1^st at 08:15) {{Space icon|f}}
2. {{flagicon|Russia}} Soyuz-2.1b – Lotos S1 (2^st at 20:45:28) {{Space icon|s}}
3. {{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L18 (4^st at 06:19) {{Space icon|s}}
4. {{flagicon|China}} Long March 3B/E – TJS 6 (4^st at 15:36) {{Space icon|s}}
5. {{flagicon|Russia}} Soyuz-2.1a – Progress 77P (15^st at 04:45:05) {{Space icon|s}}
6. {{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L19 (16^st at 03:59:37) {{Space icon|s}}
7. {{flagicon|USA}} Antares 230+ – NG-15 (20^st at 17:36:50) {{Space icon|s}}
8. {{flagicon|China}} Long March 4C – Yaogan 31 (24^st at 02:22) {{Space icon|s}}
9. {{flagicon|India}} PSLV – Amazônia-1 (28^st at 04:53) {{Space icon|s}}
10. {{flagicon|Russia}} Soyuz-2.1b – Arktika-M 1 (28^st at 06:55:01) {{Space icon|s}}

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March Launches
Launch dates can change. See a current list: here.

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• Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L17
• Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L20
• Long March 7A – Yanzheng 6
• Firefly Alpha – DREAM 1
• Electron – They Go Up So Fast
• Soyuz-2.1a – CAS500-1
• Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 5
• Jielong 1 – Hainan 1
• LauncherOne – STP-27VP
• Long March 4C – Gaofen-12

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• On March 7 the Wide Field Camera 3 on Hubble Space Telescope entered safe mode after a software error was detected. And took days until the camera was fully active again. [https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-s-hubble-space-telescope-set-to-resume-science-operations read more]
• The Space Launch System completed a full-duration (8 minutes and 20 seconds) static fire of the core stage on March 18, after an earler test in January failed to complete the test.

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Featured Content

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• The Apollo 12 article was promoted to a Featured Article on March 27, 2021. After being nominated by {{noping|Wehwalt}} who is a significant contributor to the article.

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File:HST-SM4.jpeg

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the first space telescope, but it is one of the largest and most versatile, renowned both as a vital research tool and as a public relations boon for astronomy. The Hubble telescope is named after astronomer Edwin Hubble and is one of NASA's Great Observatories.

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File:Roger B. Chaffee at a console in the Mission Control Center, Houston, during the Gemini-Titan 3 flight.jpg

Astronaut Roger B. Chaffee is shown at console in the Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas during the Gemini-Titan 3 flight.

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New Members:

• {{noping|Bop34}} (Joined on the 2^nd March)
• {{noping|Ninney}} (Rejoined on the 16^th March)
• {{noping|Askeuhd}} (Joined on the 22^nd March)
• {{noping|Ben MacTavish}} (Joined on the 27^th March)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 104.

Total number of members: 316.}}

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March Launches
All times stated here are in UTC.

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1. {{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L17 (4^th at 08:24:54) {{Space icon|s}}
2. {{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L20 (11^th at 08:13:29) {{Space icon|s}}
3. {{flagicon|China}} Long March 7A – 7A-Y2 (11^th at 17:51:28) {{Space icon|s}}
4. {{flagicon|China}} Long March 4C – 4C-Y42 (13^th at 02:19) {{Space icon|s}}
5. {{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L21 (14^th at 10:01:26) {{Space icon|s}}
6. {{flagicon|RUS}} Soyuz-2.1a – CAS500 1 (22^nd at 06:07:12) {{Space icon|s}}
7. {{flagicon|NZ}} Electron – "They Go Up So Fast" (22^nd at 22:30) {{Space icon|s}}
8. {{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L22 (24^th at 08:28:24) {{Space icon|s}}
9. {{flagicon|RUS}} Soyuz-2.1a – OneWeb 5 (25^nd at 02:47:33) {{Space icon|s}}
10. {{flagicon|China}} Long March 4C – 4C-Y36 (30^th at 22:45) {{Space icon|s}}

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April Launches
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• Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L23
• Soyuz-2.1a – Soyuz MS-18
• GSLV Mk II – GISAT 1
• Vega – Pléiades Neo 1
• Falcon 9 – Crew-2
• Soyuz – OneWeb 6
• Delta IV Heavy – NROL-82
• Long March 5B – Tianhe 1

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• On April 9 at 07:42:41 (UTC), Soyuz MS-18 successfully launched from Baikonur Site 31 with Oleg Novitsky, Pyotr Dubrov and Mark T. Vande Hei arriving at the ISS 3 hours later to join Expedition 64 members.
• April 12 marks the 60^th year of human spaceflight, since Vostok 1 launched in 1961 with Yuri Gagarin onboard.
• April 12 also marks 40 years since the first space shuttle launch. STS-1 spent 2 days, 6 hours in space in 1981 landing on April 14.
• On April 16, NASA selected the SpaceX Starship Human Landing System for crewed landing on the Moon.
• On April 17 at 01:34 (UTC), Soyuz MS-17 departed from the ISS and landed at Kazakh Steppe over 3 hours later ending Sergey Ryzhikov, Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, Kathleen Rubins mission of 184 days and 23 hours.
• Also on the 17^th, Expedition 64 on the ISS ended marking the start of Expedition 65.
• On April 19, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity completed the first powered flight using atmospheric lift on another planet.
• Earth Day came around for another year, 51 years after it was first held on April 22, 1970.
• On April 23 at 09:49:02 (UTC), SpaceX Crew-2 launched at LC-39A with Shane Kimbrough, K. Megan McArthur, Akihiko Hoshide and Thomas Pesquet arriving at the ISS 1 day later to join Expedition 65 members.
• Michael Collins who was the Apollo Command Module pilot, dies on April 28, 2021 aged 90.
• On April 29, China launched a Tianhe station core module to low Earth orbit, starting a 2 year effort to build a space station.

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File:Michael Collins (S69-31742, restoration).jpg

Michael Collins was an American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 command module Columbia around the Moon in 1969 while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, made the first crewed landing on the surface. He was selected as part of NASA's third group of 14 astronauts in 1963 and flew in space twice.

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The unofficial flag of earth day which is made of the "Blue Marble" image taken onboard of the Apollo 17 spacecraft with a blue background.

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New Members:

• {{noping|Anshuman~Potu~Tipu}} (Joined on the 1^st April)
• {{noping|DrifAssault}} (Joined on the 6^th April)
• {{noping|BeachFire}} (Joined on the 13^th April)
• {{noping|Wong Wei Hao}} (Joined on the 15^th April)
• {{noping|Canopyspaceadmirer}} (Joined on the 19^th April)
• {{noping|ThePolarcub}} (Joined on the 20^th April)
• {{noping|TheColourOfFear}} (Joined on the 27^th April)
• {{noping|StarshipSLS}} (Joined on the 29^th April)

Number of active members: 112.

Total number of members: 325.

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April Launches
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1. {{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L23 (7^th at 16:34:18) {{Space icon|s}}
2. {{flagicon|CHN}} Long March 4B – Shiyan 6-02 (8^th at 23:01) {{Space icon|s}}
3. {{flagicon|RUS}} {{Space icon|c}} Soyuz-2.1a – MS-18 (9^th at 07:42:40) {{Space icon|s}}
4. {{flagicon|USA}} {{Space icon|c}} Falcon 9 – Crew-2 (23^rd at 22:14:08) {{Space icon|s}}
5. {{flagicon|RUS}} Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 6 (25^th at 22:14:08) {{Space icon|s}}
6. {{flagicon|USA}} Delta IV Heavy – NROL-82 (26^th at 20:47) {{Space icon|s}}
7. {{flagicon|CHN}} Long March 6 – Qilu 1 & Qilu 4 (27^th at 03:20) {{Space icon|s}}
8. {{flagicon|EU}} Vega – Pléiades Neo 3 (29^th at 01:50:00) {{Space icon|s}}
9. {{flagicon|CHN}} Long March 6 – Tianhe 1 (29^th at 03:23:15) {{Space icon|s}}
10. {{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L24 (29^rd at 03:44) {{Space icon|s}}
11. {{flagicon|CHN}} Long March 6 – Yaogan 34 (27^th at 03:20) {{Space icon|s}}

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May Launches
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• Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L25
• GSLV Mk.2 – GISAT 1
• Long March 7 – Tianzhou 2
• Atlas 5 – SBIRS GEO Flight 5
• Soyuz – OneWeb 7

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• The Crew of SpaceX Crew-1 had a successful splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on 2^nd May at 06:56:33 UTC. After they launched in November 2020 and had spent 167 days in space.
• A LongMarch 5B rocket had an uncontrolled re-entery into the atmosphere on 4^th May. With any debris being reported to have landed in the Indian Ocean.
• One of Rocket Labs Electron rockets expierienced a launch malfunction 2:30 into launch causing the mission to result in failure.
• Images have been released after the landing of Zhurong rover on Mars on 14^th May.

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• The Apollo 7 article was featured as Today's featured article on May 16, 2021.
• The Lisa Nowak article was promoted to Featured Article status on May 6, 2021. After being nominated by {{noping|Neopeius}} & {{noping|Hawkeye7}}.
• The image: "Buzz Aldrin.jpg" was promoted to Featured Media status on May 16, 2021. After being nominated by {{noping|TheFreeWorld}}.

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File:Katherine Johnson 1983.jpg

Creola Katherine Johnson was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. The space agency noted her "historical role as one of the first African-American women to work as a NASA scientist".

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File:Clayton Anderson zero g.jpg

Astronaut Clayton Anderson wis shown as a water bubble floats in the middeck of space shuttle Discovery during the STS-131 mission.

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New Members:

• {{noping|NightWolf1223}} (Joined on the 13^th May)
• {{noping|LemonSlushie}} (Joined on the 13^th May)
• {{noping|Dulliman}} (Joined on the 22^nd May)
• {{noping|The Unsinkable Molly Brown}} (Joined on the 29^th May)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 116.

Total number of members: 329.}}

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May Launches
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1. {{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L25 (4^th at 19:01:07) {{Space icon|s}}
2. {{flagicon|CHN}} Long March 2C – Yaogan 30-08 (6^th at 18:11) {{Space icon|s}}
3. {{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L27 (9^th at 06:42) {{Space icon|s}}
4. {{flagicon|NZ}} Electron – "Running Out of Toes" (15^th at 11:11) {{Space icon|f}}
5. {{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L26 (15^th at 22:56) {{Space icon|s}}
6. {{flagicon|USA}} Atlas 5 – SBIRS-GEO 5 (18^th at 17:37) {{Space icon|s}}
7. {{flagicon|CHN}} Long March 4B – Haiyang 2D (19^th at 04:03) {{Space icon|s}}
8. {{flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L28 (26^th at 18:59) {{Space icon|s}}
9. {{flagicon|RUS}} Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 7 (28^th at 17:38:39) {{Space icon|s}}
10. {{flagicon|CHN}} Long March 7 – Tianzhou 2 (29^th at 12:55:29) {{Space icon|s}}

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June Launches
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• Long March 3B/E – Fengyun 4B
• Falcon 9 – CRS-22
• Falcon 9 – SXM 8
• Minotaur 1 – NROL-111
• Falcon 9 – GPS 3 SV05
• Atlas 5 – STP 3
• Soyuz-2.1a – Progress MS-17
• Long March 2F – Shenzhou 12
• GSLV Mk.II – GISAT 1
• Falcon 9 – Transporter 2

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!colspan=2 style="color:white; background-color:black; padding:5px;"|Volume 1 — Issue 9

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• The Shuttle-Centaur article was promoted to Featured Article status on June 10, 2021. After being nominated by {{noping|Hawkeye7}}.
• The Spaceflight before 1951 list was promoted to Featured List status on June 21, 2021. After being nominated by {{noping|Neopeius}}.
• The image: "Timothy Peake, official portrait.jpg" was promoted to Featured Media status on June 11, 2021. After being nominated by {{noping|RoanokeVirginia}}.
• The image: "Ilan Ramon, NASA photo portrait in orange suit.jpg" was promoted to Featured Media status on June 11, 2021. After being nominated by {{noping|TheFreeWorld}}.

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File:Lisa M. Nowak.jpg

Lisa Marie Nowak is an American aeronautical engineer, and former NASA astronaut and United States Navy captain. Nowak was selected by NASA for NASA Astronaut Group 16 in 1996. She flew in space aboard {{OV|103}} during the STS-121 mission in July 2006. In 2007, Nowak was involved in an incident that led to her dismissal from NASA and the Navy.

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!colspan=2 style="color:white; background-color:black; padding:5px;"|Volume 1 — Issue 10

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• On 11^th July Virgin Galactic had their first fully crewed mission to the edge of space with Richard Branson onboard in SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity.
• On 17^th July NASA announced that scientific observations from the Hubble Space Telescope had resumed on a backup computer after being placed in a "safe mode" since June 13.
• On 20^th July Blue Origin had their first fully crewed mission to the edge of space with Jeff Bezos onboard in a New Shepard capsule.
• On 26^th July The Pirs module was the first permanent ISS module to be decommissioned. After docking to the ISS on 17^th September 2001, just under 20 years ago.
• On 29^th July The ISS was moved out of its normal orientation after the Nauka module (a new Russian module) was docked and started firing its thrusters.

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File:SHUTTLE-CENTAUR.JPG

Shuttle-Centaur was a version of the Centaur upper stage rocket designed to be carried aloft inside the Space Shuttle. Two variants were developed: Centaur G-Prime and Centaur G. The powerful Centaur upper stage allowed for heavier deep space probes, and for them to reach Jupiter sooner. However, neither variant ever flew on a Shuttle.

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File:Hubble Extreme Deep Field (full resolution).png

This is an Extreme Deep Field image taken from the Hubble Space Telescope, released by NASA on September 25th, 2012. With exposure dates from July 2002 to March 2012.

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New Members:

• {{Noping|Itsfullofstars}} (Joined on the 10^th July)
• {{Noping|James Denesuk}} (Joined on the 31^st July)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 120.

Total number of members: 333.}}

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July Launches
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August Launches
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• Atlas V N22 – Boeing Orbital Flight Test 2
• Long March 3B/E – ChinaSat 2E
• Antares 230+ – Cygnus NG-16
• Falcon 9 Block 5 – Starlink 2-1
• GSLV Mk II – GISAT 1
• Vega – Pléiades Neo 4
• Long March 4C – Gaofen-3 02
• EcoRocket – TBA
• Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 9
• Falcon 9 Block 5 – CRS-23

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• On 11^th July Virgin Galactic had their first fully crewed mission to the edge of space with Richard Branson onboard in SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity.
• On 17^th July NASA announced that scientific observations from the Hubble Space Telescope had resumed on a backup computer after being placed in a "safe mode" since June 13.
• On 20^th July Blue Origin had their first fully crewed mission to the edge of space with Jeff Bezos onboard in a New Shepard capsule.
• On 26^th July The Pirs module was the first permanent ISS module to be decommissioned. After docking to the ISS on 17^th September 2001, just under 20 years ago.
• On 29^th July The ISS was moved out of its normal orientation after the Nauka module (a new Russian module) was docked and started firing its thrusters.

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File:SHUTTLE-CENTAUR.JPG

Shuttle-Centaur was a version of the Centaur upper stage rocket designed to be carried aloft inside the Space Shuttle. Two variants were developed: Centaur G-Prime and Centaur G. The powerful Centaur upper stage allowed for heavier deep space probes, and for them to reach Jupiter sooner. However, neither variant ever flew on a Shuttle.

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File:Hubble Extreme Deep Field (full resolution).png

This is an Extreme Deep Field image taken from the Hubble Space Telescope, released by NASA on September 25th, 2012. With exposure dates from July 2002 to March 2012.

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New Members:

• {{Noping|Itsfullofstars}} (Joined on the 10^th July)
• {{Noping|James Denesuk}} (Joined on the 31^st July)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 120.

Total number of members: 333.}}

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July Launches
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August Launches
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• Atlas V N22 – Boeing Orbital Flight Test 2
• Long March 3B/E – ChinaSat 2E
• Antares 230+ – Cygnus NG-16
• Falcon 9 Block 5 – Starlink 2-1
• GSLV Mk II – GISAT 1
• Vega – Pléiades Neo 4
• Long March 4C – Gaofen-3 02
• EcoRocket – TBA
• Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 9
• Falcon 9 Block 5 – CRS-23

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• On 12{{Sup|th}} August a GSLV Mk.2 rocket with the EOS-03 Earth observation satellite as a payload encountered a third stage failure and crashed back into the ground after reaching a maximum altitude of 140km (87 miles).
• On 20{{Sup|th}} August a 5 hour 55 minute spacewalk was completed by chinese astronauts Nie Haisheng and Liu Boming on the Tiangong space station.
• On 28{{Sup|th}} August an Astra rocket had an engine failure at launch, but managed to recover and fly to the upper atmosphere before leaving its flight corridor, resulting in flight temination.

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File:Apollo 7 during the first live television transmission from space.jpg

Apollo 7 was the first crewed flight in NASA's Apollo program, and saw the resumption of human spaceflight by the agency after the fire that killed the three Apollo 1 astronauts. The Apollo 7 crew was commanded by Walter M. Schirra, with command module pilot Donn F. Eisele and lunar module pilot R. Walter Cunningham.

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File:Ilan Ramon, NASA photo portrait in orange suit.jpg

Official portrait of Ilan Ramon, an astronaut killed during the failed re-entry of the Space Shuttle Columbia.

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New Members:

• {{Noping|Akrasia25}} (Joined on the 21{{Sup|st}} August)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 122.

Total number of members: 335.}}

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August Launches
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1. {{Flagicon|CHN}} Hyperbola-1 – Jilin-1 (3{{Sup|rd}} at 07:39) {{Space icon|f}}
2. {{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 6 – KL-Beta A/B (4{{Sup|th}} at 11:01) {{Space icon|s}}
3. {{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 3B/E – ChinaSat 2E (5{{Sup|th}} at 16:30:05) {{Space icon|s}}
4. {{Flagicon|USA}} Antares 230+ – Cygnus NG-16 (10{{Sup|th}} at 22:01:05) {{Space icon|s}}
5. {{Flagicon|IND}} GSLV Mk II – EOS-03 (GISAT-1) (12{{Sup|th}} at 00:13) {{Space icon|f}}
6. {{Flagicon|EUR}} {{Flagicon|FRA}} Vega – Pléiades-Neo 4 (17{{Sup|th}} at 01:47:06) {{Space icon|s}}
7. {{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 4B – Tianhui-2 02 (18{{Sup|th}} at 22:32) {{Space icon|s}}
8. {{Flagicon|RUS}} {{Flagicon|KAZ}} Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 9 (21{{Sup|st}} at 22:13:40) {{Space icon|s}}
9. {{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 2C – RSW-01 (24{{Sup|th}} at 11:15) {{Space icon|s}}
10. {{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 3B/E – TJSW-7 (24{{Sup|th}} at 15:41) {{Space icon|s}}
11. {{Flagicon|USA}} Rocket 3 – STP-27AD1 (28{{Sup|th}} at 22:35) {{Space icon|f}}
12. {{Flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – CRS-23 (29{{Sup|th}} at 07:14:49) {{Space icon|s}}

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September Launches
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• {{Flagicon|USA}} Firefly Alpha – DREAM
• {{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 4C – Gaofen-5 02
• {{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 3B/E – ChinaSat 9B
• {{Flagicon|CHN}} Ceres-1 – Fangzhou-2F (SPARK-02F)
• {{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 2C – Yaogan 32-02A
• {{Flagicon|RUS}} {{Flagicon|KAZ}} Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 10
• {{Flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Inspiration4
• {{Flagicon|CHN}} Kuaizhou – Jilin-1 Gaofen-02F
• {{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 7 – Tianzhou 3
• {{Flagicon|USA}} Atlas V – Landsat 9
• {{Flagicon|CHN}} Kuaizhou – Jilin-1 Gaofen-02D
• {{Flagicon|USA}} {{Flagicon|NZL}} Electron – BlackSky
• {{Flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink
• {{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 4C – Daqi-1 (Atmosphere-1)
• {{Flagicon|IND}} PSLV-XL – EOS-04 (RISAT-1A)
• {{Flagicon|RUS}} Soyuz-2.1v – Razbeg №1 (Kosmos 2551)

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• The NASA Astronaut Group 2 article was promoted to Featured Article status on . After being nominated by {{Noping|Hawkeye7}}.
• The Apollo 16 article was promoted to Featured Article status on . After being nominated by {{Noping|Wehwalt}}.
• The Apollo 4 article was promoted to Featured Article status on . After being nominated by {{Noping|Wehwalt}}.
• The 1951 in spaceflight list was promoted to Featured List status on 23 October 2021. After being nominated by {{Noping|Neopeius}}.
• The image: "Mars Pathfinder Presidential Panorama.jpg" was promoted to Featured Media status on 19 October 2021. After being nominated by {{Noping|Artem.G}}.

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New Members: No new members.

• {{Noping|Kilawyn Punx}} (Joined on the 5{{Sup|th}} September)
• {{Noping|CactiStaccingCrane}} (Joined on the 6{{Sup|th}} September)
• {{Noping|Rainclaw7}} (Joined on the 15{{Sup|th}} September)
• {{Noping|KarenWrite}} (Joined on the 16{{Sup|th}} September)
• {{Noping|ColtHood08}} (Joined on the 20{{Sup|th}} September)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 127.

Total number of members: 340.}}

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October Launches
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1. {{Flagicon|RUS}} {{Flagicon|KAZ}} {{Space icon|c}} Soyuz-2.1a – Soyuz MS-19 (5{{Sup|th}} at 08:55:02) {{Space icon|s}}
2. {{Flagicon|RUS}} Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb (14{{Sup|th}} at 09:40:10) {{Space icon|s}}
3. {{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 2D – Solar Explorer (14{{Sup|th}} at 10:51) {{Space icon|s}}
4. {{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 2F – Shenzhou 13 (15{{Sup|th}} at 16:23:56) {{Space icon|s}}
5. {{Flagicon|USA}} Atlas V – Lucy (16{{Sup|th}} at 09:34:00) {{Space icon|s}}
6. {{Flagicon|KOR}} Nuri – Dummy payload (21{{Sup|st}} at 08:00) {{Space icon|f}}
7. {{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 3B/E – Shijian-21 (24{{Sup|th}} at 01:27:03) {{Space icon|s}}
8. {{Flagicon|EUR}} {{Flagicon|FRA}} Ariane 5 – SES-17 (24{{Sup|th}} at 02:10) {{Space icon|s}}
9. {{Flagicon|JPN}} H-IIA – QZS-1R (26{{Sup|th}} at 02:19:37) {{Space icon|s}}
10. {{Flagicon|CHN}} Kuaizhou – Jilin-1 Gaofen-02F (27{{Sup|th}} at 06:19) {{Space icon|s}}
11. {{Flagicon|RUS}} {{Flagicon|KAZ}} Soyuz-2.1a – MS-18 (28{{Sup|th}} at 00:00:32) {{Space icon|s}}

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November Launches
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• {{Flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – SpaceX Crew-3
• {{Flagicon|CHN}} Long March 2C – Yaogan 32-02A
• {{Flagicon|USA}} Rocket 3 – STP-27AD2
• {{Flagicon|JPN}} Epsilon – RAISE-2
• {{Flagicon|USA}} {{Flagicon|NZL}} Electron – BlackSky 10
• {{Flagicon|EUR}} {{Flagicon|FRA}} Vega – CERES × 3
• {{Flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – CSG-2
• {{Flagicon|USA}} Atlas V – STPSat-6
• {{Flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – DART
• {{Flagicon|RUS}} {{Flagicon|KAZ}} Soyuz-2.1b – Prichal (Progress M-UM)
• {{Flagicon|USA}} {{Flagicon|NZL}} Electron – BlackSky 12
• {{Flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink Group 2-2
• {{Flagicon|USA}} Falcon 9 – Starlink Group 2-3
• {{Flagicon|USA}} RS1 – Orbital Test Range × 2
• {{Flagicon|RUS}} Soyuz-2.1a – Neitron №1

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:Initially launched in late 2010/early 2011 for a run of four months, The Downlink was unpublished for more than nine years, after which a second volume was published from October 2020 to October 2021. This second volume was very different from the first volume, both in style and structure. A December issue was planned (for some reason, the second volume became volume 1 in April 2021), but was never finished. Like with volume 2, this volume 3 was intended to come with changes, though primarily to style.

:Volume 3 will not feature any significant changes to style or structure. This both provides continuity with the previous volume and allows the contributors to construct each issue relatively easily. However, following volumes may see changes to style, format, and upload schedule. As it is still very early in the year, a discussion on this is not yet necessary, but suggestions of all kinds are always welcome at the talk page.

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• Blue Ghost Mission 1 and Hakuto-R Mission 2 were launched from Kennedy Space Center on 15 January. They are planned to land in March and April, respectively.
• On 30 January, Sunita Williams broke Peggy Whitson's record for most time spent on spacewalks by a woman, at 62 hours and 6 minutes total.
• ISRO successfully docked two SpaDeX satellites on 16 January, making India the fourth country (including the EU) to dock two vehicles in space.
• Blue Origin's New Glenn launch vehicle completed its maiden flight on 16 January. The payload was successfully placed in orbit, while the first staged failed to land on the recovery ship.

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• The image Jupiter clouds was promoted to Featured Media status on 4 January. It was nominated by {{noping|MER-C}}.

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File:Apollo 17 Cernan on moon.jpg

Gene Cernan was the eleventh and (as of 2025) last person to ever step foot on the moon. In addition to being an astronaut, he was an aviator in the US Navy and engineer. Apollo 17 was his second Apollo mission, as he served as Apollo 10's lunar module pilot. He died in Houston on 16 January, 2017. He was the first astronaut to be buried at Texas State Cemetery.

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New members:

• {{noping|Joost van Assenbergh}} (9 January)
• {{noping|TheCosmicNebula}} (25 January)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 200. Total number of members: 426.}}

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Launches
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1. {{Flag icon|USA}} New Glenn — DarkSky-1 (16 Jan. at 07:03) ({{Color|green|success}})
2. {{Flag icon|USA}} SpaceX Starship — 10 Starlink simulators (16 Jan. at 22:37) ({{Color|red|launch failure}})

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• On 17 February, as part of a Commercial Lunar Payload Services mission, Intuitive Machines' lunar lander IM-2 was launched on board a Falcon 9. It was also launched with Lunar Trailblazer and Brokkr-2.
• The European Space Agency's space telescope INTEGRAL was retired on 28 February after 22 years, five months, and one day. It is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere in 2029.

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File:Atlantis launch plume edit.jpg

Launched on 7 February 2001, STS-98 delivered to the Destiny laboratory module of the International Space Station. Flown by Atlantis, it was the first human spaceflight mission of the 21st century. The shuttle landed at Edwards Air Force Base on 20 February after being docked with the ISS for almost seven days. The crew consisted of Kenneth Cockrell, commander, Mark L. Polansky, pilot, Robert Curbeam, mission specialist 1, Marsha Ivins, mission specialist 2 and flight engineer, and Thomas David Jones, mission specialist 3.

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{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 200.

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February Launches
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1. {{Flag icon|RUS}} Soyuz 2.1v and Volga — Kosmos-2581/-2582/-2583 (5 Feb. at 03:59) ({{Color|green|success}})
2. {{Flag icon|China}} Long March 8A — 9 Hulianwang Digui (11 Feb. at 09:30) ({{Color|green|success}})
3. {{Flag icon|USA}} Falcon 9 Block 5 — 23 Starlink (18 Feb. at 23:21) ({{Color|green|success}})
4. {{Flag icon|USA}} Falcon 9 Block 5 — multiple (27 Feb. at 00:02) ({{Color|green|launch success}})

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|The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter

!colspan=2 style="color:white; background-color:black; padding:5px;"|Volume 3 — Issue 3

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• Firefly Aerospace became the first commercial company to successfully achieve a soft landing on the moon on 2 March with the landing of Blue Ghost Mission 1 near Mons Latreille. It lasted the intended length of one lunar day before losing power on 16 March. It was launched with the Hakuto-R Mission 2 lander Resilience and rover Tenacious, which are planned to land in the Mare Frigoris.
• On 6 March, the IM-2 mission's lunar lander Athena landed on Mons Mouton. Although intact, it landed sideways, preventing it from generating enough power to operate as designed. The mission was declared over the following day.
• SpaceX Crew-9 splashed down near Tallahassee, Florida on 18 March. Initially planned to launch with a full complement, the extension of Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams' stay on the ISS resulted in it being launched with only two crew members.

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The InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) lander was selected from among three options in August 2012. Initially planned to launch in March 2016, an instrument issue delayed the launch to May 2018, the next Earth-Mars launch window. It was successfully launched on 5 May, and landed on Elysium Planitia on 26 November 2018. Taking seismographic and thermographic readings, InSight operated for a total of 4 years and 19 days instead of its planned 2 year mission. The mission was declared over on 21 December, 2022 after contact was lost on 15 December. A re-analysis of some of its data indicates that there may be significant amounts of groundwater in Mars' crust.

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New Members:

• {{Noping|Desertroseflora}} (6 March)
• {{Noping|Nowhed}} (13 March)
• {{Noping|4-RAZOR 01}} (15 March)
• {{Noping|Orion.Project}} (28 March)

{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|Number of active members: 206.

Total number of members: 430.}}

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March Launches
All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list: here.

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1. {{Flagicon|FRA}} Ariane 62 — CSO-3 (6 Mar. at 16:24 UTC) ({{Color|green|success}})
2. {{Flagicon|USA}} SpaceX Starship — four Starlink simulators (6 Mar. at 23:30 UTC) ({{Color|red|launch failure}})
3. {{Flagicon|USA}}{{Flagicon|JAP}} Rocket Lab Electron — QPS-SAR 9/SUSANOO-1 (15 Mar. at 00:00 UTC) ({{Color|green|success}})
4. {{Flagicon|GER}} Spectrum — no payload (30 Mar. at 10:30 UTC) ({{Color|red|launch failure}})

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