Portal:Spaceflight/Did you know/August 2009


 * …that the satellite GPS IIR-1, intended to become part of the United States Air Force Global Positioning System, was destroyed 13 seconds after launch?
 * …that the Progress M1-5 spacecraft was used to deorbit Mir (pictured)?
 * …that there were six expeditions to Salyut 6, and a seventh failed to dock?