The events on this day in history for our heritage companies are noted below.
The earliest event was in 1963, the latest event was in 2018
One milestone event (5 to 65+ years ago)
Human Spaceflight:
1968 – MM X-24A flight 1, Dryden Lake – Pilot Jerauld Gentry – first flight of the X-24A
1970 – SPLASHDOWN: Apollo 13 splashes down, South Pacific, USS Iwo Jima; failure review board immediately convened. – MILESTONE: 55 years ago
1993 – LANDING: STS-56 (Discovery), KSC
1998 – LAUNCH: STS-90 (Columbia), LC39A, KSC – 7 person crew, Spacelab/Neurolab (last flight of laboratory). Crew: Richard Searfoss, Scott Altman, Richard Linnehan, Kathryn Hire, Dafydd Williams (Canadian Space Agency), Jay Buckey, James Pawelczyk
Military and Classified Programs:
1963 – Thiokol, Aerojet-General and Lockheed Propulsion selected by DoD to develop large-scale solid rocket motors (program 623A)
1968 – LAUNCH: Classified mission, MM Titan IIIB, SLC4W, VAFB
1984 – LAUNCH: Classified mission, MM Titan 24B, SCL4W, VAFB
2018 – LM submits proposal for GPS IIIF program
Exploration and Interplanetary Programs:
1967 – LAUNCH: Surveyor 3, GD Atlas/Centaur D, LC36B, CCAFS
Earth-Monitoring and Civil Weather Satellite programs:
NONE
Commercial Programs:
NONE
Test, ICBM, FBM programs:
1963 – LAUNCH (3): Lockheed Polaris A2 SSBN608, ETR
Other:
NONE
The photos today are from the STS-90 mission in 1998 and include the launch, the crew, and the Neurolab set-up in the cargo bay. Photo Credits: NASA.
