# CalenTool V2.2 - nflag=1 range=1,12 - DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE
# $Header: space,v 2.5 91/05/13 09:36:51 billr Exp $
# Dates related to events in aviation, astronomy and space exploration
# Today in History dates provided by Robert Heckendorn at
# Hewlett-Packard in Fort Collins, Colorado.
# Any corrections or additions may be sent to robert@fc.hp.com
#
# Additional dates provided from ProLine's today file
#
# Converted to calentool format by Larry Virden (lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu)
# and RPC Rodgers, UCSF, Nov 1988
# and further edited and merged by Bill Randle (billr@saab.cna.tek.com).
# Some duplicates may exist where I haven't been able to verify which
# one is correct.
#
** 01 04 99 99 00 Quadrantid meteor shower (look north)
** 01 05 99 99 00 NASA announces development of Space Shuttle (1972)
** 01 05 99 99 00 Salyut 4, crew of 2, launched for 30 day mission (1975)
** 01 09 99 99 00 1st balloon flight in North America. (1793)
** 01 10 99 99 00 First radar contact with Moon (1946)
** 01 10 99 99 00 Venera 6 launched toward Venus (1969)
** 01 10 99 99 00 World airplane altitude record set (4,165 ft) at first international air show in LA (1910)
** 01 11 99 99 00 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to solo fly across the Pacific when she flies from Honolulu to Oakland (1935)
** 01 11 99 99 00 Soyuz 27 links up with Soyuz 26 and the orbiting space station Salyut 6 making the first time that three space craft are linked (1978)
** 01 11 99 99 00 Uranian moons Titania and Oberon discovered by William Herschel (1787)
** 01 13 99 99 00 Apollo 14 launched (what was that about rockets can't fly??) (1971)
** 01 14 99 99 00 Soyuz 4 launched (1968)
** 01 15 99 99 00 Soyuz 5 launched (1968)
** 01 17 99 99 00 Hermes rocket launched by ESA (1976)
** 01 17 99 99 00 Soyuz 4 & 5 complete first docking of 2 manned spacecraft (1968)
** 01 18 99 99 00 Eugene B. Ely makes the first landing of an aircraft on a ship when he lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Harbor (1911)
** 01 21 99 99 00 Neptune becomes the outermost planet (Pluto moves closer). (1979)
** 01 22 99 99 00 Apollo 5 launched to Moon, unmanned lunar module tests (1968)
** 01 24 99 99 00 Voyager 2 encounters Uranus. Efforts will be made during the trip to Neptune to improve ground receiver sensitivity enough to allow data rates equal to the Uranus passage (4800 - 21600 bps) (1986)
** 01 24 99 99 00 51-C Discovery launched; first DoD mission (1985)
** 01 25 99 99 00 1st transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301). (1959)
** 01 25 99 99 00 Echo 2, first joint US/USSR satellite (1964)
** 01 27 99 99 00 Grissom, Chaffee & White die in Apollo 1 fire during a simulated launch (1967)
** 01 28 99 99 00 Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes 73s after liftoff (1986)
** 01 29 99 99 00 41- (STS-11) Challenger launched (1984)
** 01 30 99 99 00 US/Canada launch ISIS 1 to study ionosphere (1969)
** 01 31 99 99 00 Apollo 14 launched toward Moon (1971)
** 01 31 99 99 00 First US satellite (Explorer I) launched, Van Allen Belt discovered (1958)
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