1994 in spaceflight explained

Year:1994
First:8 January
Last:30 December
Total:93
Success:88
Failed:4
Partial:1
Catalogued:89
Maidens:H-II
Pegasus-XL
Taurus
Retired:ASLV
Scout G-1
Orbital:9
Totalcrew:44

This article outlines notable events occurring in 1994 in spaceflight, including major launches and EVAs.

Clementine lunar orbiter

Orbital launches

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January

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February

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March

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April

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May

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June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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Suborbital launches

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January-March

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April-June

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July-September

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October-December

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Deep Space Rendezvous

Date (GMT)SpacecraftEventRemarks
19 February Selenocentric orbit injection
4 May Clementine Leaves Selenocentric orbit
13 October Deliberately deorbited into the Venerian atmosphere

EVAs

Start Date/TimeDurationEnd TimeSpacecraftCrewRemarks
9 September
07:00
5 hours
4 minutes
12:06Mir EO-16
Kvant-2
Yuri Malenchenko
Talgat Musabayev
Inspected a docking port on Kvant-1 for damage from a recent Progress and repaired a thermal blanket on Soyuz TM-19.
13 September
06:30
6 hours
1 minute
12:32Mir EO-16
Kvant-2
Yuri Malenchenko
Talgat Musabayev
Continued construction work in preparation of moving solar arrays from the Kristall module to the Kvant-2 module.
16 September
14:42
6 hours
51 minutes
21:33STS-64
Mark C. Lee
Carl J. Meade
Untethered tests of SAFER EVA rescue device.[1]

References

Footnotes

Notes and References

  1. Web site: STS-64 (64). Dumoulin. Jim. NASA Space Shuttle Launch Archive. NASA. 2009-03-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20090320090908/http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-64/mission-sts-64.html. 20 March 2009 . live.