The events on this day in history for our heritage companies are noted below.
The earliest event was in 1960, the latest event was in 2014
One milestone event (5 to 65+ years ago)
Human Spaceflight:
1997 – LANDING: STS-87 (Columbia), KSC
2001 – LAUNCH: STS-108 (Endeavour), LC39B, KSC – 7 person crew, ISS logistics. Core Crew: Dominic Pudwill Gorie, Mark Kelly, Linda Godwin, Daniel Tani. To ISS Expedition 4: Yury Onufriyenko (RSA – Russian Space Agency), Carl Walz, Daniel Busch. From ISS Expedition 3: Frank Culbertson, Mikhail Turin (RSA), Vladimir Dezhurov (RSA)
2014 – LAUNCH: LM Orion EFT-1, ULA Delta IVH, LC37B, CCAFS – Exploration Test Flight of Orion crew capsule (unmanned) – MILESTONE: 10 years ago
Military and Classified Programs:
1966 – LAUNCH: Classified mission, GD Atlas SLV-3/Lockheed Agena D, SLC4E, VAFB
1967 – LAUNCH: Classified mission, MM Titan IIIB, SLC4W, VAFB
1986 – LAUNCH: Fltsatcom 7, GD Atlas G/Centaur, LC36B, CCAFS
1995 – LAUNCH: USA-116, LM Titan IVA(404), SLC4E, VAFB
Exploration and Interplanetary Programs:
NONE
Earth-Monitoring and Civil Weather Satellite programs:
2002 – LAUNCH: TDRS-10, LM Atlas IIA, LC36B, CCAFS
Commercial Programs:
NONE
Test, ICBM, FBM programs:
1960 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Polaris A2, LC25A, CCAFS
1962 – LAUNCH: MM Titan I, 395-A1, VAFB
1962 – LAUNCH: GD Atlas F, LC11, CCAFS – Last Atlas F Test flight
1977 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Trident C-4, LC25C, CCAFS
1986 – LAUNCH: MM Peacekeeper, LF02, VAFB
Other:
NONE
The photos today are of the Exploration Test Flight of Orion on a Delta IVH in 2014, including a view of the Orion craft after final assembly in the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Facility at KSC, the launch, a diagram of the flight objectives, and a view of Earth from Orion.
Photo Credits:
Orion Spacecraft: NASA/Rad Sinyak
Launch: NASA/Sandra Joseph and Kevin O’Connell
Diagram: NASA
View of Earth from Orion: NASA
