The events on this day in history for our heritage companies are noted below.
The earliest event was in 1962, the latest event was in 2021.
Two milestone events (5 to 65+ years ago)
Human Spaceflight:
1998 -LAUNCH: STS-91 (Discovery), LC39B, KSC – 6 person crew, final Mir mission. Crew: Charles Precourt, Dominic Pudwell Gourie, Franklin Chang-Diaz (Costa Rica/USA), Wendy Lawrence, Janet Kavandi, Valery Ryumin (Russia), Andrew Thomas (Australia/USA – From Mir). No transport up to Mir of a crew member.
Military and Classified Programs:
1962 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Corona 43, Thor/Lockheed Agena B, SLC1W, VAFB
1976 – LAUNCH: Classified mission, MM Titan 34B, SLC4W, VAFB
2009 – LM awarded $1.5 billion follow-on contract for SBIRS – MILESTONE: 15 years ago
Exploration and Interplanetary Programs:
2021 – Contracts were awarded by NASA to LM to build the DAVINCI and VERITAS spacecraft, Discovery missions to Venus.
Earth-Monitoring and Civil Weather Satellite programs:
NONE
Commercial Programs:
NONE
Test, ICBM, FBM programs:
1962 – LAUNCH (2): Lockheed Polaris A2, SSBN610, ETR
2014 – LAUNCH (2): LM Trident D5, SSBN736, ETR – MILESTONE: 10 years ago
Other:
NONE
The drawings today are from the proposed DAVINCI (DAVINCI – Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging) and VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy) missions. Image Credits: NASA/JPL.
In November 2022, the VERITAS mission launch was delayed from 2027 to 2031 due to limited resources and recovery/corrective actions for internal JPL process issues that resulted in the delayed launch of the Psyche mission. The VERITAS team has countered with a 2029 launch proposal.
