This Week In Space History
Tuesday January 18th:
| 1986 | STS 61-C Lands at Edwards Air Force Base. |
Wednesday January 19th:
| 1965 | Gemini-2 Launch. unpiloted test of heat shield. |
| 1993 | STS-54 Lands at Kennedy Space Center. |
| 2006 | Launch of New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto (2015) and beyond, to Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 (2019). |
Thursday January 20th:
Friday January 21st:
| 2018 | RocketLab Electron reaches orbit on that company's first successful orbital launch. |
Saturday 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. |
Sunday January 23rd:
Monday 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. |
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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