The events on this day in history for our heritage companies are noted below.
The earliest event was in 1949, the latest was in 2009
Three milestone events (5 to 65+ years ago)
Human Spaceflight:
1962 – Convair division of GD awarded a contract to build the Little Joe II vehicles to launch Apollo suborbital spacecraft tests
2009 – LAUNCH: STS-125 (Atlantis), LC39A, KSC – 7 person crew; LM Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission 4 (last servicing mission) – MILESTONE: 15 years ago. Crew: Scott Allman, Gregory Johnson, Michael Good, Megan McArthur, John Grunsfeld, Mike Massimino, Andrew Feustel
Military and Classified Programs:
1982 – LAUNCH: Classified mission, MM Titan IIID, SLC4E, VAFB
2000 – LAUNCH: LM GPSIIR-4 (SVN50), Delta 7925-9.1, LC17A, CCAFS
Exploration and Interplanetary Programs:
NONE
Earth-Monitoring and Civil Weather Satellite programs:
NONE
Commercial Programs:
NONE
Test, ICBM, FBM programs:
1962 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Polaris A2, SSBN609, ETR
1970 – LAUNCH (6): Lockheed Polaris A3, SSBN657, ETR
1971 – LAUNCH (2): Lockheed Poseidon C3, SSBN631, ETR
1989 – LAUNCH FAILURE: MM Small ICBM launched, TP-09, VAFB – MILESTONE: 35 years ago
Other:
1949 – President Truman signs a bill passed by Congress to create a missile test range at Cape Canaveral, Florida – MILESTONE: 75 years ago!
The photos today are from the STS-125 mission. This mission was the last Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission in 2009, fifteen years ago. The photos include the launch, the crew and HST in the cargo bay. This was actually the fifth servicing mission as the third mission was divided into two separate missions (3A and 3B). Photo Credits: NASA (launch NASA/Fletcher Hildreth) – released to Public Domain.
