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Draft:List of orbital solo flights of manned spacecraft in the 21st century

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Flights of manned orbital spacecraft that don't dock to a space station during their mission have become extremely rare in the twenty-first century. Almost all crewed orbital spaceflights in the 21st century went to a space station, mostly to the ISS. All Russian orbital spaceflights in the 21st century went to the ISS, and no manned Soviet or Russian spacecraft that reached orbit after Soyuz 22 flew solo, but either to a Salyut space station, to the Mir or to the ISS. The following is a list of manned orbital spaceflights in the 21st century that didn't dock to any space station. It only includes spaceflights that never go past a geocentric distance of 326,400 km (202,800 mi), the Earth-Moon L1 point, during the flight.

Past flights

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Mission Carrier rocket/Spacecraft Launch date Crew size Launch site/Country Notes
STS-109 Space Shuttle Columbia 1 March 2002 7 Kennedy Space Center / USA
  • Penultimate Hubble servicing mission
  • Last successful mission for shuttle Columbia
STS-107 Space Shuttle Columbia 16 January 2003 7 Kennedy Space Center / USA
Shenzhou 5 Long March 2F/Shenzhou 15 October 2003 1 Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center / China
  • First manned Chinese spaceflight
Shenzhou 6 Long March 2F/Shenzhou 12 October 2005 2 Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center / China
  • Second manned Chinese spaceflight
Shenzhou 7 Long March 2F/Shenzhou 25 September 2008 3 Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center / China
  • Third manned Chinese spaceflight
  • First Chinese spacewalk
STS-125 Space Shuttle Atlantis 11 May 2009 7 Kennedy Space Center / USA
  • Last Hubble servicing mission
  • Last solo flight of the Space Shuttle
Inspiration4 Falcon 9 Block 5/Dragon 16 September 2021 4 Kennedy Space Center / USA
Polaris Dawn Falcon 9 Block 5/Dragon 10 September 2024 4 Kennedy Space Center / USA
  • First private spacewalk
  • First use of the SpaceX EVA suit
  • 21st century human altitude record so far (1,400.7 km (870.4 mi))
  • Farthest humans from Earth since Apollo 17 in 1972
  • Farthest women from Earth ever (Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon)
  • Highest manned non-lunar spaceflight ever

Planned flights

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Mission Carrier rocket/Spacecraft Launch date Crew size Launch site/Country Notes
Fram2 Falcon 9 Block 5/Dragon March 2025 (planned) 4 KSC or CCSFS / USA
Gaganyaan-4 LVM3/Gaganyaan Q4 2025 (planned) 2 SDSC / India
  • First manned Indian spaceflight

See also

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References

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Category:Lists of human spaceflights Category:2000s in spaceflight Category:2020s in spaceflight