Human spaceflights
Every crewed spaceflight since Vostok 1 in 1961 — orbital, suborbital and lunar — plus crewed launch aborts and the two chimpanzee flights, with spacecraft, launch and landing time, duration, crew size, space station and program. One row per flight.
Columns
Stable keys — use them in the API, SQL and code
| Key | Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | ID | string | McDowell's human-spaceflight ID (H…, HA… for aborts, HB… for chimpanzee flights). |
| tag | Tag | string | — |
| spacecraft | Spacecraft | string | — |
| launch_date | Launch date | date | UTC date of launch. |
| launch_time | Launch (UTC) | datetime | — |
| landing_time | Landing (UTC) | datetime | — |
| duration_days | Duration | number · days | — |
| ongoing | In space now | boolean | — |
| crew | Crew | integer | People aboard at launch. |
| type | Type | string | — |
| orbit | Orbit | string | Orbital or suborbital; blank for aborts. |
| deep_space | Beyond 150,000 km | boolean | Deep-space mission (Apollo lunar flights, Artemis). |
| station | Space station | string | Station the flight docked with or was meant to. |
| program | Program | string | — |
| project | Project | string | Spacecraft family or project, e.g. Soyuz, Shuttle, Apollo. |
| callsign | Callsign | string | — |
| cospar_id | Launch designation | string | — |
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