The events on this day in history for our heritage companies are noted below.
The earliest event was in 1926, the latest event was in 2014
Two milestone events (5 to 65+ years ago)
Human Spaceflight:
1993 – LANDING: STS-61 (Endeavour), KSC
Military and Classified Programs:
1962 – LAUNCH: Classified mission, Thor/Lockheed Agena D, SLC2E, VAFB
1973 – LAUNCH: DSCS II -3 -4, MM Titan IIIC, LC40, CCAFS
1980 – LAUNCH: Classified mission, MM Titan 34B, SLC4W, VAFB
2002 – USAF requests $1 billion in funds to subsidize the EELV program (Atlas and Delta 4)
2014 – LAUNCH: USA-259, ULA Atlas V 551, SLC3E, VAFB – MILESTONE: 10 years ago
Exploration and Interplanetary Programs:
NONE
Earth-Monitoring and Civil Weather Satellite programs:
NONE
Commercial Programs:
1962 – LAUNCH: RCA Relay 1, Thor Delta B, LC17B, CCAFS
1975 – LAUNCH: RCA Satcom 1, Delta 3914, LC17A, CCAFS
Test, ICBM, FBM programs:
1954 – The first production funding is released by the USAF for the GD (Convair) Atlas program – $3.6 million – MILESTONE: 70 years ago
1961 – LAUNCH: Martin Titan I, LC20, CCAFS
1979 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Trident C-4, SSBN658, ETR
1989 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Trident D-5, SSBN734, ETR
Other:
1926 – Lockheed Corporation founded
The artist’s image today is of the Relay 1 satellite built by RCA and launched in 1962. This satellite relayed the first television images between Japan and the US. The image was found on Wikipedia and is attributed to NASA and released to the public domain.
Note: The Lockheed Corporation was also founded on this date in 1926.
