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225 Years Ago - 1781
Mar. 13: Uranus discovered by Sir William Herschel.
80 Years Ago - 1926
Mar. 16: Dr. Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid-propelled rocket at 2:30 p.m. on a farm in Auburn. MA outside Worcester. MA.
75 Years Ago - 1931
Mar. 14: Johannes Winkler made first liquid-fueled rocket test in Europe. Bessau, Germany.
50 Years Ago - 1956
Mar. 14: ABMA launched first Jupiter rocket. ESMC.
45 Years Ago – 1961
Mar. 9: Sputnik 9 Launch (Carried dog Named Chernushka)
Mar. 25: Explorer 10 launched. 10:17 a.m.. EST, ESMC.
Mar. 16: Goddard Space Flight Center, dedicated, Greenbelt, MD.
Mar. 18: Little Joe 5A, suborbital Mercury capsule test, premature escape rocket firing, WFF, VA.
Mar. 25: Sputnik 10 Launch (Carried dog Named Zvezdochka)
30 Years Ago: 1966
Mar. 1: Venera 3, Venus Impact ( USSR)
Mar. 16: Gemini Titan 8. first manned docking of two spacecraft, (Gemini 8 with Agena target rocket). Astronauts Dave Scott and Neil Armstrong launched. 10:41 a.m., EST,
ESMC. Made emergency landing in Pacific less than 11 hours later.
Mar. 31: Luna 10 launched, first artificial moon satellite, 1048 UT, Baikonur, USSR.
25 Years Ago - 1971
Mar. 13: China 2 launched.
Mar. 13: Explorer 43 (IMP-I) launched, 11:15 a.m., EST, ESMC.
Mar. 31: ISIS 2 launched, 6:57 p.m., PST, WSMC.
30 Years Ago - 1976
Mar. 26: RCA 2 launched, 5:42 p.m.. EST, ESMC.
20 Years Ago – 1986
Mar. 6: Vega 1, Comet Halley Flyby.
Mar. 9: Vega 2, Comet Halley Flyby.
Mar. 10: Sakigake, Comet Halley Flyby.
Mar. 13: Giotto, Comet Halley Flyby.
Mar. 28: ICE, Comet Halley Distant Flyby.
15 Years Ago - 1991
Mar. 8: Titan 1V launched. 4:03 a.m., PST. carrying DoD payload. First launch of Titan IV from WSMC.
March 31: ALMAZ-1 (“Diamond”) launched by the U.S.S.R. on 15:12 UT using a PROTON rocket booster. The flight program provided for filming of the territory of the Soviet Union and other countries in the interest of geology, cartography, oceanography, ecology, and agriculture.
10 Years Ago - 1996
Mar. 22: STS-76 (Space Shuttle Atlantis) launched from KSC at 3:13 a.m. EST for docking with the Russian Mir station. Left Shannon Lucid onboard. Astronauts Kevin P. Chilton, Richard A. Searfoss, Linda M. Godwin, Michael R. Clifford, Ronald M. Sega, and Shannon W. Lucid. Landed Edwards AFB March 31, 1996 at 8:28 a.m. EST. Mission Duration: 9 days, 5 hours, 16 minutes.
5 Years Ago – 2001
Mar. 18: XM 2 (better known as XM Rock) is an American geosynchronous radio broadcast satellite that was launched by a Zenit 3SL rocket from the Sea Launch Platform on the equatorial Pacific Ocean at 22:33 UT. The satellite carries two transmitters (3 kW each) in the S-band to relay 100 channels of digital quality music uplinked in the X-band from one or more ground stations.
Mar. 21: STS-102 (Space Shuttle Discovery) launched from KSC at 2:31 a.m. EST. Astronauts: James Wetherbee, James Kelly, Andy Thomas, and Paul Richards. International Space Station (ISS) Flight 5A.1 Delivered a multi-rack Italian container (Leonardo MultiPurpose Logistics Module, LMPLM) to the Destiny Module of the ISS and exchanged Expedition 2 crew for Expedition One crew. Landed March 21, 2001, 2:31 a.m. EST, KSC. Mission duration: 12 days, 19 hours, 51 minutes.
Colin Fries, Author
Steven J. Dick, NASA Chief Historian
Steve Garber, NASA History Web Curator
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