The events on this day in history for our heritage companies are noted below.
The earliest event was in 1966, the latest was in 2016
No milestone events (5 to 65+ years ago)
Human Spaceflight:
1966 – LAUNCH: AS-203, Saturn 1B, LC34, CCAFS – Saturn SIVB restart test
Military and Classified Programs:
NONE
Exploration and Interplanetary Programs:
2016 – LM Juno achieves an elliptical polar orbit around Jupiter
Earth-Monitoring and Civil Weather Satellite programs:
NONE
Commercial Programs:
NONE
Test, ICBM, FBM programs:
1973 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Poseidon C3, SSBN641, ETR
Other:
NONE
The artist’s depiction today is the arrival of the Juno spacecraft at an elliptical polar orbit of Jupiter on July 5 (GMT). Juno is still operational with extended missions on-going investigating the Galilean moons. Image credit: NASA.
