This Week In Space History
Sunday 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. |
Monday 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. |
Tuesday January 26th:
| 1962 | Ranger-3 Atlas over-accelerates. Misses moon. Solar orbit. |
| 1978 | China-8 Launch. Recovered. Possible canine passenger. |
Wednesday January 27th:
| 1967 | Apollo-1 plugs-out pad test kills Grissom, White, and Chaffee. |
| 1985 | STS 51-C Lands at Kennedy Space Center. |
Thursday January 28th:
| 1986 | Launch of STS 51-L kills Scobee, Smith, Resnik, Onizuka, McNair, Jarvis, and McAuliffe. |
Friday January 29th:
| 1984 | China-14 Launch. First Long March 3.(GEO capable) 3rd stage fails. |
| 1998 | Soyuz TM-27 Launch. Musabaev, Budarin, Eyharts. |
Saturday January 30th:
| 1964 | Ranger-6 Impacts J. Caesar crater. TV fails after launch. |
| 2013 | Launch of South Korea's first satellite, Naro-1 after 2 previous failures. Russian 1st stage. S. Korean second stage. |
| 2020 | Spitzer Space Telescope (nee Space Infrared Telescope Facility), the 4th NASA Great Observatory, fails after 16 years. |
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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