The events on this day in history for our heritage companies are noted below.
The earliest event was in 1956, the latest event was in 2020
Human Spaceflight:
1995 – LANDING: STS-73 (Columbia) KSC
Military and Classified Programs:
1961 – LAUNCH: Classified mission, Thor/Lockheed Agena B, SLC2E, VAFB
1962 – LAUNCH: Classified mission, Thor/Lockheed Agena B, SLC1W, VAFB
2020 – LAUNCH: LM GPS IIIA-04 (Sacajawea), SpaceX Falcon Nine Block 5, LC40, CCAFS
Exploration and Interplanetary Programs:
1964 – LAUNCH FAILURE: Mariner 3, GD Atlas/Lockheed Agena D, LC13, CCAFS – payload fairing
Earth-Monitoring and Civil Weather Satellite programs:
1967 – LAUNCH: ATS-3, GD Atlas SLV-3/Lockheed Agena D, LC12, CCAFS
Commercial Programs:
NONE
Test, ICBM, FBM programs:
1956 – LAUNCH: Lockheed X-17, LC3, CCAFS
1965 – LAUNCH (4): Lockheed Polaris A3, SSBN627, ETR
1968 – LAUNCH: MM Pershing 1, Gilson Butte, Utah
1997 – LAUNCH: LM Peacekeeper, LF02, VAFB
Other:
NONE
The photos today are of a GPSIII spacecraft being processed by LM from a press release and the launch of GPSIII-04 (named for Sacajawea) on SpaceX Falcon Nine in 2020.