The events on this day in history for our heritage companies are noted below.
The first event was in 1960, the latest events was in 2009
One milestone event (5 to 65+ years ago)
Human Spaceflight:
2009 – LM readies Operations & Checkout Facility for Orion Integration work at KSC
Military and Classified Programs:
NONE
Exploration and Interplanetary Programs:
1962 – LAUNCH FAILURE: Ranger 3, GD Atlas/Lockheed Agena B, LC12, CCAFS- Agena upper stage
Earth-Monitoring and Civil Weather Satellite programs:
1967 – LAUNCH: RCA ESSA-4 (TIROS family), Thor Delta E, SLC2E, VAFB
Commercial Programs:
1971 – LAUNCH: Intelsat 4 F-2, GD Atlas SLV-3C/Centaur, LC36A, CCAFS
Test, ICBM, FBM programs:
1960 – LAUNCH FAILURE: GD Atlas D, 576-A3, VAFB – MILESTONE: 65 years ago
1964 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Polaris A2, SSBN-623, ETR
1982 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Trident C-4, SSBN-634, ETR
Other:
NONE
The photos today are of the launch of ESSA-4 in 1967 on a Thor Delta E and a photo of the ESSA 4 spacecraft. The photos are from the NOAA photo library (government source) and are in the public domain.
