The events on this day in history for our heritage companies are noted below.
The first event was in 1961, the latest event was in 1998
Three milestone events (5 to 65+ years ago)
Human Spaceflight:
1965 – Proposals requested by the USAF for the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL)
1998 – LAUNCH: STS-89 (Endeavour), LC39A, CCAFS – 7 person crew, Spacehab module, Mir Space Station. Crew: Terrence Wilcutt, Joe Edwards, James Reilly, Michael Anderson, Bonnie Dunbar, Salizan Sharipov (Russia), Andrew Thomas (to Mir), David Wolf (from Mir).
Military and Classified Programs:
1965 – LAUNCH: Classified mission, GD Atlas SLV-3/Agena D, SLC4W, VAFB
Exploration and Interplanetary Programs:
NONE
Earth-Monitoring and Civil Weather Satellite programs:
1970 – LAUNCH: RCA ITOS-1 (TIROS family), Thor Delta N6, SLC2W, VAFB
Commercial Programs:
1972 – LAUNCH: Intelsat 4 F-4, GD Atlas SLV-3C/Centaur, LC36B, CCAFS
Test, ICBM, FBM programs:
1961 – LAUNCH: GD Atlas D, LC12, CCAFS – Final ETR Atlas D test flight; 35 successes, 8 partials and 6 failures total
1962 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Polaris A2, LC29A, CCAFS – FAILURE
1962 – LAUNCH: GD Atlas D, 576-B3, VAFB
1964 – LAUNCH: MM Titan II, 395-C, VAFB – MILESTONE: 60 years ago
1965 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Polaris A3, SSBN-635, ETR
1970 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Poseidon C3, LC25C, CCAFS
1973 – LAUNCH (4): Lockheed Poseidon C3, SSBN-628, ETR
1979 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Trident C-4, LC25C, CCAFS – MILESTONE: 45 years ago
1989 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Trident C-4, SSBN-640, ETR – MILESTONE: 35 years ago
Other:
NONE
The photos today are of the STS-89 mission in 1998, including the launch, the crew, and Endeavour docking to the Russian space station Mir.
