The events on this day in history for our heritage companies are noted below.
The earliest event was in 1892 (not a typo), the latest event was in 2011
Two milestone events (5 to 65+ years ago)
Human Spaceflight:
1959 – Army Ordnance Missile Command recommended using a Martin Titan for the second stage of the Saturn rocket, in correspondence sent to ARPA
1964 – Gemini Program Management Panel remained optimistic that the Titan II/Gemini program would have its first manned launch later in that same year (it ended up being moved into 1965).
1966 – A Lockheed proposal was submitted to NASA to evaluate launching payloads in space using Agena stages from the Apollo Applications Platform
Military and Classified Programs:
1960 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Discoverer 11, Thor/Lockheed Agena A, SLC1E, VAFB – MILESTONE: 65 years ago
1969 – LAUNCH: Classified mission, MM Titan IIIB, SLC4W, VAFB
1970 – LAUNCH: Classified mission, MM Titan 23B, SLC4W, VAFB – MILESTONE: 55 years ago
1983 – LAUNCH: Classified mission, MM TItan 24B, SLC4W, VAFB
2011 – LAUNCH: USA 229, ULA Atlas V 411, SLC3E, VAFB
Exploration and Interplanetary Programs:
NONE
Earth-Monitoring and Civil Weather Satellite programs:
1999 – LAUNCH: LM Landsat 7, Delta 7920-10, SLC2W, VAFB
Commercial Programs:
NONE
Test, ICBM, FBM programs:
1965 – The last MM Titan I was removed from its silo, Lowry AFB, Colorado – MILESTONE: 60 years ago
1988 – LAUNCH (4): Lockheed Trident C4, SSBN658, ETR
1991 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Trident D5, SSBN736, ETR
Other:
1892 – General Electric company is founded
The photos today are of the launch of Landsat 7, a photo of the spacecraft being processed and an example of earth monitoring data from this spacecraft, which was finally decommissioned in 2022. Photo Credits: NASA.
