The Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program was an effort by the United States Air Force to train American military personnel as payload specialists for United States Department of Defense missions on the ...
The crew consists of three astronauts – including the country’s first female space engineer. The spacecraft ... Wang is currently the only female aerospace engineer in China and the third Chinese ...
A major turning point for private spaceflight occurred on June 21, 2004, when SpaceShipOne, the first nongovernmental crewed spacecraft, flew 62.5 miles (100 kilometers) above Earth's surface.