The events on this day in history for our heritage companies are noted below.
The earliest event was in 1960, the latest event was in 2002.
One milestone event (5 to 65+ years ago)
Human Spaceflight:
2002 – LAUNCH: STS-102 (Discovery), LC39B, KSC – 7 person crew, ISS modules, crew exchange. Crew: Core – James Weatherbee, James Kelly, Andrew Thomas (Australia), Paul Richards. To ISS Expedition 2: Yuri Yusachev (Russia), James Voss, Susan Helms. From ISS Expedition 1: William Shepherd, Yuri Gridzenko (Russia), Sergei Krikalev (Russia).
Military and Classified Programs:
1991 – LAUNCH: USA 69, Titan IVA(403), SLC4E, VAFB – First Titan IV at VAFB
Exploration and Interplanetary Programs:
NONE
Earth-Monitoring and Civil Weather Satellite programs:
2002 – LAUNCH: TDRS 9, LM Atlas IIA, LC36A, CCAFS
Commercial Programs:
1997 – LAUNCH: Tempo2, LM Atlas IIA, LC36A, CCAFS – TV service, now part of Direct TV
Test, ICBM, FBM programs:
1960 – LAUNCH: GD Atlas D, LC11, CCAFS – first Atlas using all-inertial guidance system
1960 – LAUNCH FAILURE: Martin Titan I, LC16, CCAFS
1990 – LAUNCH: MM Peacekeeper, LF05, VAFB
1994 – LAUNCH: MM Peacekeeper, LF05, VAFB – MILESTONE: 30 years ago
2000 – LAUNCH: LM Peacekeeper, LF05, VAFB
Other:
NONE
The photos today are from two missions. First, there is a bad photo of the first Titan IV lau