From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

1977 in spaceflight

none

Field	Value
year	1977
image	Titan 3E Centaur launches Voyager 2.jpg
caption	Launch of Voyager 2 on a Titan IIIE
first	6 January
last	27 December
total	130
success
failed
partial
catalogued	124
maidens	Mu-3H
Tsyklon-3
retired	Kosmos-2I
Titan IIIE
orbital	3
totalcrew	6

Tsyklon-3 Titan IIIE

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 , 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.

Launches

|d-date = |d-time = |d-span = |o-span = Operational: Geostationary Operational}} Operational}} |}

Deep space rendezvous

Date	Spacecraft	Event	Remarks
20 February	Viking Orbiter 1	Flyby of Phobos	Closest approach: 89 km
October	Viking Orbiter 2	Flyby of Deimos

EVAs

Start date/time	Duration	End time
19 December
21:36	1 hour
28 minutes	23:04	Salyut 6
PE-1	USSRGeorgi Grechko (full)
USSRYuri Romanenko (stand-up)	First Russian EVA in over 8 years and the first use of the Orlan-D spacesuit. 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

References

Hughes, J. (1996) Larrousse Desk Reference Encloypedia London RD press, World Aircraft Information Files (2001) London Aerospace publishing Ltd
Wade, Mark. (2009). "Orlan".

Info: Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

1977-in-spaceflight spaceflight-by-year

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about 1977 in spaceflight — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report