The events on this day in history for our heritage companies are noted below.
January 22
The first event was in 1957, the latest event was in 1997
Two milestone events (5 to 65+ years ago)
Human Spaceflight:
1968 – LAUNCH: Apollo 5, Saturn 1B, LC37B, CCAFS – First flight of the Lunar Module
1992 – LAUNCH: STS-42 (Discovery), LC39A, KSC – 7 person crew, Spacelab (Microgravity experiments). Crew: Ronald Grabe, Steve Oswald, Norman Thagard, Williams Readdy, David Hilders, Roberta Bondar (Canada), Ulf Merbold (ESA/Germany)
1997 – LANDING: STS-81 (Atlantis), KSC
Military and Classified Programs:
1969 – LAUNCH: Classified mission, MM Titan IIIB, SLC4W, VAFB
Exploration and Interplanetary Programs:
NONE
Earth-Monitoring and Civil Weather Satellite programs:
1965 – LAUNCH: RCA Tiros 9, Thor/Delta C, LC17B, CCAFS – MILESTONE: 60 years ago
1975 – LAUNCH: GE/RCA Landsat 2, Delta 2910, SLC2W, VAFB
Commercial Programs:
NONE
Test, ICBM, FBM programs:
1957 – Definitive contract signed with the USAF for Martin Titan I missile development
1965 – Last MM Titan I ICBM taken off alert status at Beale AFB – MILESTONE: 60 years ago
1967 – LAUNCH: GD Atlas D, 576-B2, VAFB
Other:
NONE
The photo today is the landing of STS-81 at KSC in 1997. Photo Credit: NASA.
