Rocket Launches in 2011
Spaceflight in 2011: Atlantis lands on 21 July, ending thirty years of Space Shuttle flights, and for the next nine years crews reach the station only aboard Soyuz. China launches its first space laboratory, Tiangong-1, and docks an uncrewed Shenzhou to it in November. MESSENGER becomes the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury, and Curiosity sets off for Mars.
84 launches in 2011 · 4 failures · 2 partial
