The events on this day in history for our heritage companies are noted below.
The earliest event was in 1959, the latest event was in 2002
Human Spaceflight:
1958 – NASA Space Task Group orders first Mercury Atlas vehicle from the USAF
1969 – SPLASHDOWN: Apollo 12
1991 – LAUNCH: STS-44 (Atlantis)m LC39A, KSC – 6 person crew, deployed DSP-1 Block 14 (only DSP deployment from shuttle)
2002 – LAUNCH: STS-113 (Endeavour) LC39A, KSC – 7 person crew, ISS assembly
Military and Classified Programs:
1962 – LAUNCH: Classified mission, Thor/Lockheed Agena B, SLC1W, VAFB
Exploration and Interplanetary Programs:
NONE
Earth-Monitoring and Civil Weather Satellite programs:
NONE
Commercial Programs:
NONE
Test, ICBM, FBM programs:
1959 – LAUNCH: GD Atlas D, LC13, CCAFS
1969 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Polaris A3 SSBN622, ETR
1971 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Poseidon C3, SSBN635, ETR
Other:
NONE
The photos today are from the STS-113 mission and include the launch and the crews and work on ISS. There were four core crew members to support the shuttle and three crew on board that were were brought to ISS for an extended mission, while three others on ISS returned home.