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Topic: Chronology of key space anniversaries for 2014
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-01-2014 10:36 PM
   
Roger Launius, the associate director for collections and curatorial affairs at the National Air and Space Museum, has provided through his blog a chronology of anniversaries in 2014 that relate to space exploration. For example, marking 50 years in 2014: 8 April — The first American Gemini flight took place, an unpiloted test that made four orbits.28 May — The United States placed the first Apollo command module (CM) in orbit in a test flight atop a Saturn I. |
Greggy_D
Member Posts: 977
From: Michigan
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 01-02-2014 09:52 AM
August 30th -- 30 years ago Discovery launched on her first mission (STS-41D). |
Tykeanaut
Member Posts: 2212
From: Worcestershire, England, UK.
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 01-02-2014 02:22 PM
40 years since the return to Earth of the final Skylab crew on February 8th 1974. |
mach3valkyrie
Member Posts: 719
From: Albany, Oregon
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 01-02-2014 04:46 PM
Some 50th anniversaries coming up that I can recall: - January 29, 1964: First live Saturn second stage launches on SA-5.
- July 28, 1964: Ranger 7 launch.
- October 31, 1964: Astronaut Ted Freeman killed in a T-38 crash.
- November 28, 1964: Mariner 4 launch to Mars.
- December 9, 1964: Gemini 2 unmanned flight has a shutdown on Pad 19.
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Shuttle Endeavour
Member Posts: 234
From: Freehold, NJ, USA
Registered: Aug 2013
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posted 01-02-2014 06:03 PM
- August 21, 1965 - Gemini 5 Launch
- August 29, 1965 - Gemini 5 Splashdown
- May 16, 2011 - STS-134 Launch
- June 1, 2011 - STS-134 Landing at KSC
- July 8, 2011 - STS-135 Launch
- July 21, 2011 - STS-135 Landing at KSC
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-02-2014 06:12 PM
Generally, anniversaries of note are in intervals of five (i.e. 10th, 15th, 25th, 50th), otherwise you can end up listing every date from history.  While the Gemini 5, STS-134 and STS-135 missions are certainly historic, 2014 marks their 49th and third anniversaries... |
Cozmosis22
Member Posts: 968
From: Texas * Earth
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 01-02-2014 09:48 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Greggy_D:
August 30th -- 30 years ago Discovery launched on her first mission (STS-41D).
About two months prior to that, June 26th, shuttle Discovery experienced what I believe was the first main engine shutdown launch abort on the pad. Due to an anomaly in one of the orbiter's three main engines, the countdown was halted a mere four seconds before SRB ignition.From the Press Site we heard a short roar then sort of a fading screech followed by... silence. There were a few rather scary moments as controllers scrambled to explain what just happened and what would come next. It was determined that the crew would not take the emergency slide-wire egress route. They all departed normally, as they had done the previous day when the countdown was scrubbed at the T-9 minute mark due to a computer glitch. Ah DISCOVERY, you were a difficult bird to get off the ground; but once you got going you became the workhorse of the fleet! |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 01-02-2014 10:47 PM
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Originally posted by Cozmosis22:
Ah DISCOVERY, you were a difficult bird to get off the ground; but once you got going you became the workhorse of the fleet!
Which I like to point out is ironic considering Discovery was slated to fly just four missions a year as the Vandenberg-dedicated shuttle. |
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