The events on this day in history for our heritage companies are noted below.
The earliest event was in 1958, the latest event was in 2004
One milestone event (5 to 65+ years ago)
Human Spaceflight:
1968 – Apollo 8 enters lunar orbit
Military and Classified Programs:
1965 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Corona 124, Thor SLV-2A/Lockheed Agena D, SLC1W, VAFB
Exploration and Interplanetary Programs:
2004 – Cassini mission Huygens probe release successful; landing occurred on January 14, 2005 – MILESTONE: 20 years ago
Earth-Monitoring and Civil Weather Satellite programs:
NONE
Commercial Programs:
NONE
Test, ICBM, FBM programs:
1958 – LAUNCH: GD Atlas C, LC12, CCAFS
Other:
NONE
The photos today are from two missions. First, there is a cutaway image of the Huygens probe – this ESA landing spacecraft was deployed by Cassini on this day in 2004 to head to the Saturnian moon Titan for a landing on January 14, 2005. Lockheed Martin built the DISR (Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer) for ESA to use on the Huygens lander. There will be more information about the DISR in the January 14 events. Image Credit: NASA/GSFC.
The second photo is the view of Earth from lunar orbit on the Apollo 8 mission. Photo Credit: NASA. I remember this event vividly – we came out of Christmas Eve services at our church and found we had a flat tire on the car. My Dad changed the tire while my Mom and I listened to the news reports on the radio about the astronauts in orbit of the moon and we loved hearing them read the story of Genesis.
