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Field	Value
year	2004
image	Kluft-photo-SS1-landing-June-2004-Img 1406c.jpg
caption	SpaceShipOne landing after Flight 15P, the first privately funded crewed spaceflight
first	11 January
last	26 December
total	54
success	50
failed	1
partial	3
catalogued	53
maidens	Ariane 5G+
Delta IV Heavy
Soyuz-2.1a (suborbital)
retired	Ariane 5G+
Atlas IIAS
Atlas IIIA
Atlas V 521
suborbital	3
orbital	2
totalcrew	8

Delta IV Heavy Soyuz-2.1a (suborbital) Atlas IIAS Atlas IIIA Atlas V 521

This article outlines notable events occurring in 2004 in spaceflight, including major launches and EVAs.

First privately funded human spaceflight

First Delta IV Heavy

Launches

January

|- Partial spacecraft failure |d-date=3 June

February

March

|- Studied the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and asteroids 2867 Šteins and 21 Lutetia |d-date = 30 September 2016 |d-date = 9 July 2015

April

|- |d-date=24 October

May

|- |d-date=17 May |d-date=30 July

June

|- First privately funded crewed spaceflight Maiden flight of SpaceShipOne as a spacecraft |d-date=21 June Achieved: Medium Earth

July

August

September

|- |d-time=T+270 |d-date=9 January 2005 |d-date=29 September

October

|- Final flight of SpaceShipOne |d-date=4 October |d-date=24 April 2005

November

|- |d-date=8 November

December

|- |d-date = 14 December Premature cut-off of second stage (burn one) left all payloads in wrong orbits. Both nanosats failed to contact ground after separation Actual: Medium Earth |d-date=22 December |d-date=22 December |d-date=22 December |d-date=9 March 2005 |o-span=2 |o-span=inherit |}

Deep Space Rendezvous

Date (GMT)	Spacecraft	Event	Remarks
2 January	Stardust	Flyby of [81P/Wild](81p-wild) (Wild 2)	Dust collection (samples returned to Earth in 2006)
3 January	Spirit	Landing on Mars	Gusev Crater
24 January	Opportunity	Landing on Mars	Meridiani Planum
4 February	Ulysses	2nd flyby of Jupiter
19 May	Hayabusa	Flyby of the Earth
11 June	Cassini	Flyby of Phoebe	Closest approach: 2000 km
1 July	Cassini	First orbiter of Saturn	Saturnian orbit injection
8 September	Genesis	Capsule crash-landing on Earth	0.4 mg of solar sample aboard
26 October	Cassini	Flyby of Titan	Closest approach: 1200 km
15 November	SMART-1	Selenocentric orbit injection	First European Lunar mission
13 December	Cassini	Flyby of Titan	Closest approach: 2336 km

EVAs

Start date/time	Duration	End time	Spacecraft	Crew	Function	Remarks
26 February
21:17	3 hours
55 minutes	27 February
01:12	Expedition 8
ISS Pirs	UK/USAMichael Foale
RUSAlexander Kaleri	Replaced microgravity experiment cassette containers, attached the Russian experiment Matryoshka to Zvezda, and removed a JAXA micro-meteor impact experiment.	Reduced duration due a cooling system malfunction in Kaleri's spacesuit.
24 June
21:56	14 minutes	22:10	Expedition 9
ISS Pirs	RUSGennady Padalka
USAMichael Fincke	url=http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp9/eva/index.html	title=Expedition 9 Spacewalks	access-date=7 October 2008	publisher=NASA	year=2004	author=NASA	archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081106222142/http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp9/eva/index.html	archive-date= 6 November 2008	url-status= dead}}	Rescheduled for 30 June.
30 June
21:19	5 hours
40 minutes	1 July
02:59	Expedition 9
ISS Pirs	RUSGennady Padalka
USAMichael Fincke	url=http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/reports/issreports/2004/iss04-36.html	title=International Space Station Status Report #04-36	access-date=7 October 2008	publisher=NASA	year=2004	author=NASA	archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081106172340/http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/reports/issreports/2004/iss04-36.html	archive-date= 6 November 2008	url-status= dead}}
3 August
06:58	4 hours
30 minutes	11:28	Expedition 9
ISS Pirs	RUSGennady Padalka
USAMichael Fincke	url=http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/reports/issreports/2004/iss04-43.html	title=International Space Station Status Report #04-43	access-date=7 October 2008	publisher=NASA	year=2004	author=NASA	archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081106173342/http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/reports/issreports/2004/iss04-43.html	archive-date= 6 November 2008	url-status= dead}}
3 September
16:43	5 hours
20 minutes	22:04	Expedition 9
ISS Pirs	RUSGennady Padalka
USAMichael Fincke	Replaced the Zarya Control Module flow control panel, installed four safety tether fairleads on Zarya's handrails, installed three communications antennas, and removed covers from the antennas.

Orbital launch statistics

By country

For the purposes of this section, the yearly tally of orbital launches by country assigns each flight to the country of origin of the rocket, not to the launch services provider or the spaceport. | [ {"value":180, "color":"#a52a2a", "label": "Russia: 18 (33.33%)"}, {"value":160, "color":"#484785", "label": "United States: 16 (29.63%)"}, {"value":80, "color":"#ff0000", "label": "China: 8 (14.82%)"}, {"value":70, "color":"#ffd700", "label": "Ukraine: 7 (12.96%)"}, {"value":30, "color":"#318ce7", "label": "France: 3 (5.56%)"}, {"value":10, "color":"#008080", "label": "Israel: 1 (1.85%)"}, {"value":10, "color":"#ff9933", "label": "India: 1 (1.85%)"}, ]

Country	Launches	Successes	Failures
failures			style="text-align:left;"	style="text-align:left;"	style="text-align:left;"	style="text-align:left;"	style="text-align:left;"	style="text-align:left;"	style="text-align:left;"	World
8	8	0	0
3	3	0	0
1	1	0	0
1	0	1	0
18	18	0	0
7	5	0	2
16	15	0	1

By rocket

By family

Family	Launches	Successes	Failures	Partial failures
Ariane	3	3	0	0
Atlas	6	6	0	0
Delta	8	7	0	1
GSLV	1	1	0	0
Long March	8	8	0	0
Minotaur	1	1	0	0
R-7	8	8	0	0
R-14	2	2	0	0
R-36	3	2	0	1
Shavit	1	0	1	0
Titan	1	1	0	0
Universal Rocket	8	8	0	0
Zenit	4	3	0	1

By type

Rocket	Family	Launches	Successes	Failures	Partial failures	Remarks
Ariane 5	Ariane	3	3	0	0
Atlas II	Atlas	4	4	0	0	Final flight
Atlas III	Atlas	1	1	0	0
Atlas V	Atlas	1	1	0	0
Delta II	Delta	7	7	0	0
Delta IV	Delta	1	0	0	1
Dnepr	R-36	1	1	0	0
GSLV	GSLV	1	1	0	0
Kosmos	R-14	2	2	0	0
Long March 2	Long March	5	5	0	0
Long March 3	Long March	1	1	0	0
Long March 4	Long March	2	2	0	0
Molniya-M	R-7	1	1	0	0
Proton-K	Universal Rocket	4	4	0	0
Proton-M	Universal Rocket	4	4	0	0
Shavit	Shavit	1	0	1	0
Soyuz-U	R-7	5	5	0	0
Soyuz-FG	R-7	2	2	0	0
Taurus	Minotaur	1	1	0	0
Titan IV	Titan	1	1	0	0
Tsyklon	R-36	2	1	0	1
Zenit	Zenit	4	3	0	1

By configuration

Rocket	Type	Launches	Successes	Failures	Partial failures	Remarks
Ariane 5G+	Ariane 5	3	3	0	0	Maiden and final flights
Atlas IIAS	Atlas II	4	4	0	0	Final flight
Atlas IIIA	Atlas III	1	1	0	0	Final flight
Atlas V 521	Atlas V	1	1	0	0	Final flight
Delta II 7320	Delta II	1	1	0	0
Delta II 7920	Delta II	1	1	0	0
Delta II 7920-10L	Delta II	1	1	0	0
Delta II 7925	Delta II	3	3	0	0
Delta II 7925H	Delta II	1	1	0	0
Delta IV Heavy	Delta IV	1	0	0	1	Maiden flight
Dnepr	Dnepr	1	1	0	0
GSLV Mk I	GSLV	1	1	0	0
Kosmos-3M	Kosmos	2	2	0	0
Long March 2C	Long March 2	4	4	0	0
Long March 2D	Long March 2	1	1	0	0
Long March 3A	Long March 3	1	1	0	0
Long March 4B	Long March 4	2	2	0	0
Molniya-M	Molniya-M	1	1	0	0
Proton-K / DM-2	Proton-K	4	4	0	0
Proton-M / Briz-M	Proton-M	4	4	0	0
Shavit-1	Shavit	1	0	1	0
Soyuz-U	Soyuz-U	5	5	0	0
Soyuz-FG	Soyuz-FG	2	2	0	0
Taurus 3120	Taurus	1	1	0	0
Titan IV-B (402B) / IUS	Titan IV	1	1	0	0
Tsyklon-2	Tsyklon	1	1	0	0
Tsyklon-3	Tsyklon	1	0	0	1
Zenit-2	Zenit	1	1	0	0
Zenit-3SL	Zenit	3	2	0	1

By spaceport

Site	Country	Launches	Successes	Failures	Partial failures
Baikonur		17	17	0	0
Cape Canaveral		13	12	0	1
Jiuquan		3	3	0	0
Kourou		3	3	0	0
Ocean Odyssey	UN International	3	2	0	1
Palmachim		1	0	1	0
Plesetsk		5	4	0	1
Satish Dhawan		1	1	0	0
Taiyuan		3	3	0	0
Vandenberg		3	3	0	0
Xichang		2	2	0	0

By orbit

(transfer) : Inclined GSO : High Earth : Heliocentric

Orbital regime	Launches	Successes	Failures	Accidentally
achieved	Remarks	Total	54	51	3	2
Transatmospheric	0	0	0	0
Low Earth	23	22	1	0	6 to ISS
Medium Earth / Molniya	5	5	0	2
Geosynchronous / GTO	23	21	2	0
High Earth / Lunar transfer	1	1	0	0
Heliocentric / Planetary transfer	2	2	0	0

References

Footnotes

References

(1 April 2006). "SPACEWARN Bulletin #629". [[NASA]].
"GoFast". Encyclopedia Astronautica.
(2012). "Suborbital and low-thermospheric experiments using sounding rockets in Taiwan". Acta Astronautica.
NASA. (2004). "Expedition 8 Spacewalks". NASA.
NASA. (2004). "Expedition 9 Spacewalks". NASA.
NASA. (2004). "International Space Station Status Report #04-32". NASA.
NASA. (2004). "International Space Station Status Report #04-36". NASA.
NASA. (2004). "International Space Station Status Report #04-43". NASA.
NASA. (2004). "International Space Station Status Report #04-50". NASA.

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