Space History

This Week In Space History

      Tuesday October 4th:

            1957 Sputnik-1 Launch. Opens the space era.

            1959 Luna-3 Launch. Sends back firstphotos of Lunar farside.

            1965 Luna-7 Launch. Retros fire early. Impact, Ocean of Storms.

            2004 SpaceShip One wins Ansari X-Prize with Brian Binnie flying to 112.1 km.

            2018 Return of Artem'ev, Feustel and Arnold aboard Soyuz MS-08 after 198 days.

      Wednesday October 5th:

            1984 Launch of STS 41-G - Crippen, McBride, Sullivan, Ride, Leestma, Garneau, Scully-Power.

            2021 Launch of Shkaplerov and film crew Shipenko (director) and Peresild (actor) aboard Soyuz MS-19 to ISS.

      Thursday October 6th:

            1975 Explorer-54 Launch. Atmoshpere explorers look at pollution.

            1986 China-19 Launch. Land resources remote sensing satellite.

            1990 Launch of STS-41 - Richards, Cabana, Melnick, Shepherd, Akers.
Deployed Ulyses Solar Polar Probe.

      Friday October 7th:

            1985 STS 51-J Lands at Edwards Air Force Base.

            2002 Launch of STS-112. Ashby, Melroy, Wolf, Sellers, Magnus, Yurchikhin.
ISS Assembly Flight 9A S1 Truss.

            2010 Launch of Soyuz TMA-01M. Kaleri, Skripochka, and S. Kelly to join ISS Expedition 25/26.

      Saturday October 8th:

            1959 First photo taken of the far side of the moon (by Luna 3).

      Sunday October 9th:

            1977 Soyuz-25 Launch. Kovalyonok, Ryumin. Fails to dock with Salyut-6.

            2009 Impact of Centair and LCROSS on Moon; water detection.

      Monday October 10th:

            1946 Radar bounced off the Moon for the first time.

            1964 Explorer-22 Launch. 3rd in series of ionosphere exp. satellites.

            1983 Venera-15 Arrives polar Venus orbit. Radar. Hi-resolution pix of poles.

            1991 Soyuz TM-12 lands. Artsebarski (144 days), Aubakirov, Viehbock.

            2007 Launch of Soyuz TMA-11. Malenchenko and Whitson (Expedition 16) with Al Masrie (Malaysia) to ISS.

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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Schedule
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1957	Sputnik-1 Launch. Opens the space era.
1959	Luna-3 Launch. Sends back firstphotos of Lunar farside.
1965	Luna-7 Launch. Retros fire early. Impact, Ocean of Storms.
2004	SpaceShip One wins Ansari X-Prize with Brian Binnie flying to 112.1 km.
2018	Return of Artem'ev, Feustel and Arnold aboard Soyuz MS-08 after 198 days.

1984	Launch of STS 41-G - Crippen, McBride, Sullivan, Ride, Leestma, Garneau, Scully-Power.
2021	Launch of Shkaplerov and film crew Shipenko (director) and Peresild (actor) aboard Soyuz MS-19 to ISS.

1975	Explorer-54 Launch. Atmoshpere explorers look at pollution.
1986	China-19 Launch. Land resources remote sensing satellite.
1990	Launch of STS-41 - Richards, Cabana, Melnick, Shepherd, Akers. Deployed Ulyses Solar Polar Probe.

1985	STS 51-J Lands at Edwards Air Force Base.
2002	Launch of STS-112. Ashby, Melroy, Wolf, Sellers, Magnus, Yurchikhin. ISS Assembly Flight 9A S1 Truss.
2010	Launch of Soyuz TMA-01M. Kaleri, Skripochka, and S. Kelly to join ISS Expedition 25/26.

1977	Soyuz-25 Launch. Kovalyonok, Ryumin. Fails to dock with Salyut-6.
2009	Impact of Centair and LCROSS on Moon; water detection.

1946	Radar bounced off the Moon for the first time.
1964	Explorer-22 Launch. 3rd in series of ionosphere exp. satellites.
1983	Venera-15 Arrives polar Venus orbit. Radar. Hi-resolution pix of poles.
1991	Soyuz TM-12 lands. Artsebarski (144 days), Aubakirov, Viehbock.
2007	Launch of Soyuz TMA-11. Malenchenko and Whitson (Expedition 16) with Al Masrie (Malaysia) to ISS.