The events on this day in history for our heritage companies are noted below.
The earliest event was in 1959, the latest event was in 2002
Three milestone events (5 to 65+ years ago)
Human Spaceflight:
1958 – NASA Space Task Group orders first Mercury Atlas vehicle from the USAF
1969 – SPLASHDOWN: Apollo 12 – MILESTONE: 55 years ago
1991 – LAUNCH: STS-44 (Atlantis), LC39A, KSC – 6 person crew, deployed DSP-1 Block 14 (only DSP deployment from shuttle). Crew: Frederick Gregory, Terence Hendricks, James Voss, Story Musgrave, Mario Runco, Thomas Hennen
2002 – LAUNCH: STS-113 (Endeavour) LC39A, KSC – 7 person crew, ISS assembly/crew exchange. Crew: James Wetherbee, Paul Lockhart, Michael Lopez-Alegria (Spain/USA), John Herrington. To ISS Expedition 6: Kenneth Bowersox, Nicolai Budarin (RKA – Russia), Donald Pettit; From ISS Expedition 5: Valery Korzun (RKA – Russia), Peggy Whitson, Sergei Treshchov (RKA – Russia)
Military and Classified Programs:
1962 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Corona 56, Thor/Lockheed Agena B, SLC1W, VAFB
Exploration and Interplanetary Programs:
NONE
Earth-Monitoring and Civil Weather Satellite programs:
NONE
Commercial Programs:
NONE
Test, ICBM, FBM programs:
1959 – LAUNCH: GD Atlas D, LC13, CCAFS – MILESTONE: 65 years ago
1969 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Polaris A3 SSBN622, ETR – MILESTONE: 55 years ago
1971 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Poseidon C3, SSBN635, ETR
Other:
NONE
The photos today are from the STS-113 mission and include the launch and the crews and work at ISS. There were four core crew members to support the shuttle and three crew on board that were brought to ISS for an extended mission, while three others on ISS returned home. Photo Credits: NASA.
