Transport > Space Stats: compare key data on China & United States
Definitions
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Achieved circumlunar manned spaceflight:
Indicates if circumlunar manned spaceflight has been achieved or not.
- Achieved lunar rover: Indicates if lunar rover operation has been achieved or not.
- Achieved moon landing and return: Indicates if manned moon landing and return has been achieved or not.
- Failed launches in 2012: Number of failed orbital launch attempts in 2012.
- Failed launches in 2012 per million people: Number of failed orbital launch attempts in 2012. Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
- Space agency: Name of each country's space agency.
- Successful launches in 2012: Number of successful orbital launches in 2012.
- Successful launches in 2012 per million people: Number of successful orbital launches in 2012. Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
SOURCES: Wikipedia: List of government space agencies (List of achievements of space agencies with lunar landing capability); Wikipedia: 2012 in spaceflight (By country); Wikipedia: 2012 in spaceflight (By country). Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; Wikipedia: List of government space agencies (Budgets)
