The events on this day in history for our heritage companies are noted below:
The earliest event was in 1963, the latest event was in 1996
Human Spaceflight:
1990 – LAUNCH: STS-31 (Discovery, LC39B, KSC- 5 person crew; deployed Lockheed Hubble Space Telescope
Military and Classified Programs:
1981 – LAUNCH: Classified mission, MM Titan 34B, SLC4W, VAFB
1996 – LAUNCH: USA 118, LM Titan IVA (401)/Centaur, LC41, CCAFS
Exploration and Interplanetary Programs:
NONE
Earth-Monitoring and Civil Weather Satellite programs:
NONE
Commercial Programs:
NONE
Test, ICBM, FBM programs:
1963 – LAUNCH: GD Atlas E, OSTF-1, VAFB
1972 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Polaris A3, SSBN599, ETR
1975 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Poseidon C3, SSBN633, ETR
1978 – LAUNCH (4): Lockheed Poseidon C3, SSBN645, ETR
1982 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Trident C4, SSBN643, ETR
1983 – LAUNCH: MM Pershing 2, Fort Bliss, Texas
2002 – LAUNCH (2): LM Trident D5, SSBN743, ETR
Other:
NONE
The photos today are from the ST-31 mission in 1990 and include the launch (with STS-35 on the other pad), the crew, and the deployment of Hubble Space Telescope from Discovery. Note that this was the last shuttle mission for Bruce McCandless.
