2001 | Return of ISS Expedition 1 crew after 140 days, aboard STS-102. Shepherd, Gidzenko, and Krikalev. |
2018 | Launch of Artem'ev, Arnold and Feustel aboard Soyuz MS-08 to join ISS Expedition 55/56. |
1981 | Soyuz-39 Launch. Dzhanibekov,Gurragcha (Mong). Dock w/ Salyut 6. |
1995 | Soyuz TM-20 lands. Viktorenko, Kondakova, Polyakov (445 days). |
1996 | Launch of STS-76 - Chilton, Searfoss, Godwin, Clifford, Sega, Lucid. Third Mir docking flight; Lucid to Mir. |
1965 | Launch of Gemini 3 - Grissom, Young (100 x 140 nm, 32.5 deg, 3 orbits). |
1996 | Kevin Chilton docks Atlantis to Mir (tail forward). 3rd docking. |
2001 | Mir's controlled reentry ends 15 years of on-orbit service. |
1992 | Launch of STS-45 - Bolden, Duffy, Sullivan, Leestma, Foale, Frimount, Lichtenberg. ATLAS-1 Spacelab. |
1655 | Saturn's moon Titan discovered. |
1961 | Sputnik-10 Launch. 5th Vostok test. Dog, Zvezdochka, recovered. |
1980 | Soyuz-T-1 Lands. unpiloted. Unpiloted test of T series complete. |
1992 | Soyuz TM-13 lands. Volkov (175 days), Aubakirov (175 days), Flade. |
2014 | Launch of Soyuz TMA-12M. Skvortsov, Artem'ev, and Swanson to join ISS Expedition 39/40. |
1958 | Explorer-3 Launch. Cosmic ray, orbital temp, meteorite experiments. |
2009 | Launch of Soyuz TMA-14. Padalka and Barratt, with Simonyi (tourist). |
1969 | Launch of Mariner 7. Flew over Mars' southern hemisphere at 2190 miles; returned 126 TV pictures, 33 of South polar region. |
1972 | Venera-8 Launched to Venus. |
2007 | Landing of Endeavour, after mission STS-123, on KSC runway 15 with Eyharts from Expedition 16. |
2015 | Launch of Soyuz TMA-16M. Padalka, Kornienko, and S. Kelly to ISS. Kornienko and Kelly for ~1 year. |