Transport > Space Stats: compare key data on Japan & United States
Definitions
- 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.
- International Space Station flights: Number of flights to the International Space Station (ISS) with a national of the listed countries on board.
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International Space Station visitors:
Nationality of individuals who have been on the International Space Station (ISS). One person who has been to ISS twice is counted twice. Includes space tourists.
- 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.
- Successful launches in 2014: Number of successful orbital launches in 2014.
SOURCES: 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 International Space Station visitors (By nationality); Wikipedia: List of government space agencies (Budgets); Wikipedia: 2014 in spaceflight (By country)
