1968 | Explorer-38 Launch. First Radio Astronomy explorer. Earth orbit. |
1982 | STS-4 Lands at Edwards Air Force Base. |
1997 | Pathfinder / Soujourner land on Mars. |
2005 | Deep Impact probe impact on Comet 9P/Tempel-1 at 10.2 km/sec. Flyby at 500 km. |
2006 | Launch of STS-121, Discovery, after a year of post STS-114 changes. Lindsey, M. Kelly, Fossum, Nowak, S. Wilson, Sellers, and Reiter (ESA, joining Expedition 13) to ISS. |
2021 | Liu and Tang perform first EVA from the new Chinese station Tianzhou-2. |
1978 | Soyuz-30 Lands. |
2016 | Juno enters Jupiter orbit. |
1976 | Soyuz-21 Launch. Volynov, Zholobov. Dock with Salyut-5. |
1914 | Goddard receives patent for 2-stage rocket. |
1995 | Hoot Gibson lands Atlantis on Runway 15 at KSC; Norm Thagard sets US space endurance record of 115 days after Mir 18 mission. |
2016 | Launch of Soyuz MS-01 with Ivanishin, Onishi, and Rubins to join ISS Expedition 48/49. |
1994 | Launch of STS-65 - Cabana, Halsell, Walz, Hieb, Thomas, Chiao, Mukai (Japanese). IML-2. |
2003 | Launch of Opportunity Mars lander Mars Expedition Rover-1 (Delta). |
2011 | Launch of STS-135, Atlantis to ISS on the final Space Shuttle mission Ferguson, Hurley, Magnus, Walheim. Ferried the Raffaello MultiPurpose Logistics Module up and back. |
1979 | Voyager-2 Flyby of Jupiter (403,910 miles). |
1982 | Landsat-4 Launch. |
1994 | Soyuz TM-18 lands. Afanasyev, Usachyov. |
1962 | Telestar-1 Launch. One transponder. First direct TV to Europe. |