1977 in spaceflight

none January 2014 January 2014 yes yes 1977 Titan 3E Centaur launches Voyager 2.jpg Launch of Voyager 2 on a Titan IIIE 6 January 27 December 130 124 Mu-3HTsyklon-3 Kosmos-2ITitan IIIE 3 6 Timeline of spaceflight 1976 1978 Spaceflight in 1977 included some important events such as the roll out of the Space Shuttle orbiter, Voyager 1 and Voyager space probes were launched. NASA received the Space Shuttle orbiter later named 101 no, on 14 January. This unpowered sub-orbital space plane was launched off the top of a modified 747 and was flown uncrewed until 13 August until a human crew landed the Enterprise for the first time. In August and September, the two Voyager spacecraft to the outer planets were launched. Voyager 2, launched on 20 August, went on to fly past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 1, which was launched on 5 September, flew past Jupiter and Saturn, with a planned flyby of Pluto being cancelled in favour of a closer flyby of Titan.Hughes, J. (1996) Larrousse Desk Reference Encloypedia London RD press, World Aircraft Information Files (2001) London Aerospace publishing Ltd right on Launches 1 19 February 05:15 JPNM-3H JPNKagoshima Space Center LP-M JPNISAS First flight of M-3H JPNMS-T3 (Tansei 3) ISAS Highly elliptical orbit Technology test Successful 1 16 June 10:51:00 USADelta 2914 USACape Canaveral LC-17B USA Retired on 5 May 2001 and moved to a graveyard orbit USAGOES 2 NOAA Weather Current: GraveyardOperational: Geostationary Successful 1 20 August 14:29:44 USATitan IIIE USACape Canaveral LC-41 USA USAVoyager 2 NASA Planetary Heliocentric to Galactocentric SuccessfulOperational Spacecraft flew past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, first spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune 1 5 September 12:56:01 USATitan IIIE USACape Canaveral LC-41 USA USAVoyager 1 NASA Planetary Heliocentric to Galactocentric SuccessfulOperational Final flight of Titan IIIE, spacecraft flew past Jupiter and Saturn |} Deep space rendezvous DateSpacecraftEventRemarks20 February Viking Orbiter 1 Flyby of Phobos Closest approach: 89 km miOctober Viking Orbiter 2 Flyby of Deimos EVAs Start date/timeDurationEnd timeSpacecraftCrewRemarks19 December21:361 hour28 minutes23:04Salyut 6PE-1USSR 1955Georgi Grechko (full)USSR 1955Yuri Romanenko (stand-up)First Russian EVA in over 8 years and the first use of the Orlan-D spacesuit.http://www.astronautix.com/craft/orlan.htm Orlan 13 February 2009 Wade Mark 2009 Encyclopedia Astronautica web site https://web.archive.org/web/20090326054129/http://www.astronautix.com/craft/orlan.htm 26 March 2009 dead Grechko inspected the front docking port for damage from the failed Soyuz 25 docking and found no damage, while Romanenko assisted from the open hatch. References Footnotes 2 1977 on expanded Category:Spaceflight by year