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1629 14: Christiaan Huygens born. Discoverer of Saturn's rings.
1867 16: Wilbur Wright Born.
1915 23: Advisory council for Aeronautics became National Advisory
Council on Aeronautics (NACA).
1958 2: NACA was renamed National Aeronautics Space Agency.
1959 9: 1st 7 astronauts were presented to press; Shepard, Glenn,
Cooper, Schirra, Grissom, and Slayton.
1960 1: TIROS 1 launched; 1st Earth meteorological satellite.
1961 12: Yuri Gagarin became 1st man to orbit the Earth. Vostok 1.
20: American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight.
25: Mercury/Atlas rocket lifted off with an electronic mannequin;
when inertial guidance system failed 40 seconds after launch
the rocket was destroyed by range safety officer.
1962 26: US/UK launched Ariel; 1st International payload.
1964 8: Unmanned Gemini 1 launched.
1965 6: Early Bird launched; 1st Intelsat.
23: Launch of 1st Soviet communications satelite.
1966 3: The Soviet Union claims another Moon milestone as Luna 10.
becomes the first spacecraft to achieve lunar orbit.
1967 5: ATS II launched but failed to reach orbit.
23: USSR Soyus 1 launched with Vladimir Komarov becoming the
1st cosomonaut to make 2 flights. He also became 1st man
to die in space after his parachute line tangled on re-entry.
Soyus 1. All Soviet manned flights ceased for 18 months.
1968 4: Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned.
1970 11: Apollo 13 launched to moon; Lovell, Haise, Swigert.
13: Apollo 13 oxygen tank ruptured, destroying service module
and aborting lunar landing.
17: Apollo 13 crew returns safely to Earth.
24: China becomes 5th nation to launch artificial satellite.
1971 1: US/Canada ISIS II launched to study the ionosphere.
19: USSR Salyut 1 launched; 1st manned lab in orbit.
1972 16: Apollo 16 launched; 5th lunar landing at Decartes Highlands;
Young, Mattingly, Duke.
1973 6: Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter & Saturn.
20: Canadian ANIK A2 became 1st commercial satellite in orbit.
1975 5: USSR Salyut 4 launched; failed to reach orbit; landed off
course in snowstorm and rolled down a ravine; lines snagged
saving both cosmonauts who were injured but safely rescued
later.
1980 9: Two cosmonauts launched to Salyut 6; 185 days.
1981 12: Original launch date for Columbia's maiden voyage; Computer
failed & went out of sync with others.
14: Maden Voyage of STS-1 into orbit. Young and Crippen.
16: Columbia returned.
1982 19: USSR Salyut 7 space station put into orbit.
1983 4: Maiden voyage of STS Challenger.
7: STS-6 mission specialist Story Musgrave and Don Peterson
perform 1st STS spacewalk.
9: Challenger returned.
17: India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket.
20: Soyuz T-8 launched; mission aborted when capsule failed to dock
with Salyut station.
1984 6: Liftoff of Challenger 41C.
11: Celestial mechanics "Pinky Nelson and "Ox" van Hoffen repair
Solar Max satellite during 7 hour EVA in payload bay.
1985 12: Launch of Discovery (STS-16) 51-D; Bobko, Williams, Garn, Griggs,
Seddon, Hoffman, Walker.
19: Discovery returns, blowing tire on landing.
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