The events on this day in history for our heritage companies are noted below.
The earliest event was in 1961, the latest event was in 2016
One milestone event (5 to 65+ years ago)
Human Spaceflight:
1969 – LANDING: Apollo 12 LM (Intrepid) lands on the moon at the Ocean of Storms
1975 – MM X-24B flight 63, Dryden Lake – Pilot: Dick Scobee – MILESTONE: 50 years ago
1996 – LAUNCH: STS-80 (Columbia), LC39B, KSC – 5 person crew, deployed Orfeus observatory, Wake Shield facility. Crew: Kenneth Cockrell, Kent Rominger, Story Musgrave, Thomas Jones, Tamara Jernigan.
1997 – LAUNCH: STS-87 (Columbia), LC39B, KSC – 6 person crew, microgravity and atmospheric experiments. Crew: Kenneth Kregel, Steven Lindsay, Kalpana Chawla (India/USA), Winston Scott, Takao Doi (JAXA), Leonid Kadeniuk (Ukraine)
Military and Classified Programs:
NONE
Exploration and Interplanetary Programs:
NONE
Earth-Monitoring and Civil Weather Satellite programs:
2016 – LAUNCH: LM GOES-16 (R), ULA Atlas V 541, LC41, CCAFS
Commercial Programs:
NONE
Test, ICBM, FBM programs:
1968 – LAUNCH: MM Titan II, 395-C, VAFB
1976 – LAUNCH (4): Lockheed Poseidon C3, SSBN617, ETR
1982 – LAUNCH: MM Pershing 2, Fort Bliss, Texas
Other:
1961 – Pratt & Whitney RL-10 engine flight rating completed at Marshall Space Flight Center
The photos today are from two events. First, there is a photo of Apollo 12 on the moon in the Ocean of Storms. The LM Intrepid landed within walking distance of the Surveyor 3 lander due to the precision flying by Commander Pete Conrad. Photo Credit: NASA.
Second, there is a photo of the GOES-R (16) launch and an artist’s image of the spacecraft in operations with the instruments labeled; this was the first of the new generation GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental spacecraft) built by LM. Photo and Image credits: NASA/NOAA.
Here is the caption for the GOES-R launch photo:
At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41, an Atlas V rocket with NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-R, lifts off at 6:42 p.m. EST. GOES-R is the first satellite in a series of next-generation GOES satellites for NOAA, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. It will launch to a geostationary orbit over the western hemisphere to provide images of storms and help meteorologists predict severe weather conditionals and develop long-range forecasts. Photo credit: NASA/Tony Gray & Tim Terry
