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 2009
Human Spaceflight:
1989 – LAUNCH: STS-33 (Discovery), LC39A, KSC – 5 person crew; deployed classified spacecraft – we saw this from Cocoa Beach!
Military and Classified Programs:
1999 – LAUNCH: UHF F/O F10, LM Atlas IIA, LC36B, CCAFS
Exploration and Interplanetary Programs:
NONE
Earth-Monitoring and Civil Weather Satellite programs:
1960 – LAUNCH: RCA Tiros-2, Thor Delta, LC17A, CCAFS
Commercial Programs:
2009 – LAUNCH: Intelsat IS-14, ULA Atlas V 431, LC41, CCAFS
Test, ICBM, FBM programs:
1956 – LAUNCH: Lockheed X-17, LC3, CCAFS
1961 – The 566th squadron of GD Atlas E ICBMs is deployed at Warren AFB, Cheyenne
1976 – LAUNCH (2): Lockheed Poseidon C3, SSBN655, ETR
Other:
1993 – MM buys GE Astrospace Division, including the heritage RCA space group
The photos today are from the STS-33 launch and mission. Two photos were taken by Steve and I (STS-33 on the pad at the Cape and the launch as seen from Cocoa Beach). We were down in Florida on vacation and did a KSC tour to see STS-33 on the pad and then watched the launch from the beach (because the launch was classified, I was unable to get us passes into CCAFS).
Note also on this day in 1993, Martin Marietta bought the GE Astrospace division, which included heritage RCA Space Group products.
