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On this day – May 25

Posted on May 25, 2024May 3, 2024 By Barb Sande

The events on this day in history for our heritage companies are noted below.

The earliest event was in 1961, the latest event was in 2013

One milestone event (5 to 65+ years ago)

Human Spaceflight:

1961 – President Kennedy calls for the goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the decade at a Joint Session of Congress, 20 days after Alan Shepard’s suborbital flight

1965 – LAUNCH: AS-104 (SA-8), LC37B, CCAFS – Boilerplate Apollo CSM and Pegasus B Micrometeor satellite

1971 – MM X-24A flight 27, Dryden Lake – Pilot John Manke

1973 – LAUNCH: Skylab 2, Saturn 1B, LC39B, CCAFS – first crew to Skylab (Pete Conrad, Joe Kerwin, Paul Weitz) – spacewalks and repairs of damaged Skylab orbital workshop – 28 days at Skylab

Military and Classified Programs:

1972 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Corona 144, Thorad SLV-2H/Lockheed Agena D, SLC3W, VAFB – Last Thorad/Agena from VAFB

2013 – LAUNCH: WGS-5, ULA Delta 4M+(5,4), LC37B, CCAFS

Exploration and Interplanetary Programs:

2008 – LANDING: LM Mars Phoenix Lander lands on Mars 

2011 – NASA selects LM OSIRIS-REx as next New Horizons mission

Earth-Monitoring and Civil Weather Satellite programs:

NONE

Commercial Programs:

NONE

Test, ICBM, FBM programs:

1961 – LAUNCH FAILURE: Lockheed Polaris A2, EAG-154, ETR

1964 – LAUNCH (2): Lockheed Polaris A3, SSBN626, ETR – MILESTONE: 60 years ago

1976 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Poseidon C3, SSBN620, ETR

1977 – LAUNCH (3): Lockheed Poseidon C3, SSBN643, ETR

1982 – LAUNCH (4): Lockheed Poseidon C3, SSBN619, ETR

Other:

NONE

The photos today are of two events.  First, there are photos of the Skylab 2 launch on a Saturn 1B and the crew (Pete Conrad, Joe Kerwin, Paul Weitz), plus a view of the damaged Skylab orbiting workshop during a fly-around.  Photo Credits: NASA.

Second, there is a photo of Mars Phoenix Lander descending to landing by MRO; another photo shows trenches dug in the soil by Phoenix Lander showing ice sublimation.  Photo Credits: NASA.

May 25 – Launch of Skylab 2. Photo Credit: NASA.
May 25 – Crew of Skylab 2 (Joe Kerwin, Pete Conrad, Paul Weitz). Photo Credit: NASA.
May 25 – Damage to Skylab is seen in a fly around by the Skylab 2 crew. Photo Credit: NASA.
May 25 – Mars Phoenix Lander (see inset photo) descending for landing imaged by MRO. Photo Credit: NASA/JPL.
May 25 – Mars Phoenix Lander trenches. Photo Credit: NASA/JPL.

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