Space History

This Week In Space History

      Monday January 21st:

            2018 RocketLab Electron reaches orbit on that company's first successful orbital launch.

      Tuesday January 22nd:

            1968 Apollo-5 Launch. Unpiloted test of LM in LEO.

            1975 Landsat-2 Launch.

            1992 Launch of STS-42 - Grabe, Oswald, Thagard, Readdy, Hilmers, Bondar, Merbold.
IML-1 Spacelab.

            1998 Launch of STS-89 - Wilcutt, Edwards, Anderson, Dunbar, Reilly, Sharipov,
Thomas (to Mir), Wolf (return). Sixth Mir docking flight. First dinosaur (fossil) in space.

      Wednesday January 23rd:

      Thursday January 24th:

            1985 Launch of STS 51-C - Mattingly, Shriver, Onizuka, Buchli, Payton.

            1986 Voyager-2 Flyby of Uranus.

            1993 Soyuz TM-16 Launch. Manakov, Poleshchuk.

      Friday January 25th:

            1964 Launch of Echo 2, reflector baloon; first US-USSR cooperative experiment.

            1989 Soviet Phobos 1 entered Martian orbit.

            1994 Clementine Launch.

            2005 Landing of "Opportunuty" rover on Meridiani plains, Mars.

      Saturday January 26th:

            1962 Ranger-3 Atlas over-accelerates. Misses moon. Solar orbit.

            1978 China-8 Launch. Recovered. Possible canine passenger.

      Sunday January 27th:

            1967 Apollo-1 plugs-out pad test kills Grissom, White and Chaffee.

            1985 STS 51-C Lands at Kennedy Space Center.

Space history data compiled by Jay Apt. Thanks to the following good sources:
TRW Space Log, NASA Glenn Research Center Space Calendar,
Rick von Glahn's CompuServe SpaceForum archive,
Jonathan's Space Report, and astronautix.com

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Formdate.pl subroutine © 1997 Craig Patchett & Matt Wright.

Schedule
Jay Apt Here

1968	Apollo-5 Launch. Unpiloted test of LM in LEO.
1975	Landsat-2 Launch.
1992	Launch of STS-42 - Grabe, Oswald, Thagard, Readdy, Hilmers, Bondar, Merbold. IML-1 Spacelab.
1998	Launch of STS-89 - Wilcutt, Edwards, Anderson, Dunbar, Reilly, Sharipov, Thomas (to Mir), Wolf (return). Sixth Mir docking flight. First dinosaur (fossil) in space.

1985	Launch of STS 51-C - Mattingly, Shriver, Onizuka, Buchli, Payton.
1986	Voyager-2 Flyby of Uranus.
1993	Soyuz TM-16 Launch. Manakov, Poleshchuk.

1964	Launch of Echo 2, reflector baloon; first US-USSR cooperative experiment.
1989	Soviet Phobos 1 entered Martian orbit.
1994	Clementine Launch.
2005	Landing of "Opportunuty" rover on Meridiani plains, Mars.

1962	Ranger-3 Atlas over-accelerates. Misses moon. Solar orbit.
1978	China-8 Launch. Recovered. Possible canine passenger.

1967	Apollo-1 plugs-out pad test kills Grissom, White and Chaffee.
1985	STS 51-C Lands at Kennedy Space Center.