The events on this day in history for our heritage companies are noted below.
The earliest event was in 1961, the latest event was in 1998
Human Spaceflight:
1961 – Bids received at NASA for the Apollo Prime Contractor from four bidding teams: GD/AVCO, GE/Douglas/Grumman/STL, McDonnell/Lockheed/Hughes/Vought, Martin/North American.
1975 – MM X-24B Flight 59, Dryden Lake – Pilot Einar Enevoldson
Military and Classified Programs:
1962 – LAUNCH: Classified mission, Thor/Lockheed Agena B, SLC1W, VAFB
1975 – LAUNCH: Classified mission, MM Titan 24B, SCL4W, VAFB
1985 – LAUNCH: GPS SVN11, GD Atlas E/SGS-2, SLC3W, VAFB
Exploration and Interplanetary Programs:
NONE
Earth-Monitoring and Civil Weather Satellite programs:
NONE
Commercial Programs:
1998 – LAUNCH: Hotbird 5, LM Atlas IIA, LC36B, CCAFS
Test, ICBM, FBM programs:
1962 – GD Atlas F 577th squadron turned over to SAC, Altus AFB, Oklahoma
1984 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Trident C4, SSBN658, ETR
Other:
NONE
The photo today is of X-24B pilot Einar Enevoldson, who flew the X-24B lifting body on this day in 1975. He was a civilian research pilot at Dryden research center from 1968 until 1986.