CHRONOLOGY – APRIL 2007

3/21/06

 

140 Years Ago -- 1867

Apr. 16:  Wilbur Wright born, Millville, IN.

 

60 Years Ago -- 1947

Apr. 25: Wallops Flight Research Facility, VA launched its

first rocket-propelled model of a complete airplane for performance

evaluation (XF-91).

 

45 Years Ago – 1962

Apr.  24: Cosmos 4 launched, 0405 UT, Kapustin Yar, USSR.

Apr.  24: First transmission of TV pictures in space, via Echo 1.

Apr.  25:  Saturn 2 (Project High Water) launched, 9:00 a.m., EST, ESMC.

Apr. 26: Cosmos 4 launched, 1005 UT, Baikonur, USSR.

Apr. 26: Launch of Ariel 1, the first international satellite, a joint project of NASA and the United Kingdom.

 

40 Years Ago – 1967

Apr.  5: ATS 2 launched, 10:23 p.m., EST, ESMC.

Apr.  17: Surveyor 3 launched, 2:39 a.m., EST, ESMC, landed

on moon 7:04 a.m., EST, April 19.

Apr.  20: ESSA 5 launched, 6:21  a.m., EST,  WSMC.

Apr.  26: San Marco 2 launched,  5:06 a.m.,  EST, SMR.

 

35 Years Ago – 1972

Apr.  4: Molniya I 20/SRET 1 launched, 2039 UT, Baikonur, USSR.

Apr.  16: Apollo 16 launched, 12:54 p.m., EST, KSC with astronauts

Young, Mattingly and Duke.

 

25 Years Ago – 1982

Apr. 10: Insat 1A (India) launched, 1:48 a.m., ESMC.

 

                10 Years Ago – 1997

Apr. 4: STS 83 (Space Shuttle Columbia) Launched 2:20 EST from KSC. Astronauts James D. Halsell, Susan L. Still, Janice E. Voss, Donald A. Thomas, Michael L. Gernhardt, Roger Crouch, and Greg Linteris. It carried the Spacelab module containing resources for many microgravity experiments and a combustion facility for the study of  the rise, spread, and extinction of flames under microgravity conditions. Landing  April 8, 1997, 2:33 p.m. EDT, KSC. Mission Duration: 3 days, 23 hours, and 13 minutes.

 

5 Years Ago – 2002

Apr. 8: STS 110 (Space Shuttle Atlantis) launched at 4:44 p.m. EDT, KSC. Astronauts: Michael J. Bloomfield, Stephen Frick, Jerry L. Ross, Steven L. Smith, Ellen Ochoa, Lee M.E.Morin, and Rex Walheim. International Space Station Flight 8A. Delivered an ISS truss assembly. Landing: April 19, 2002 12:27 a.m. EDT, KSC. Mission Duration: 10 days, 19 hours, 43 minutes.

Apr. 25: Soyuz TM-34 -- Launch of the third “taxi” flight from Baikonur at 06:26 UT to the International Space Station (ISS), bringing a “fresh” Soyuz return vehicle. The crew consisted of one Russian, Yuri Gidzenko, an Italian astronaut, Roberto Vittori , and the second commercial space tourist, South African Mark Shuttleworth . They returned 8 days later on older Soyuz TM-33.