CHRONOLOGY – NOVEMBER 2007
3/21/06
50
Years Ago - 1957
Nov. 3:
Sputnik 2 launched, carried "Laika",
0224 UT.
45
Years Ago - 1962
Nov. 9:
X-15, No. 2, piloted by John McKay crashed,
Nov. 16:
SA-3 (Saturn I rocket) launched, 12:45 pm., EST, ESMC.
40
Years Ago - 1967
Nov. 5: ATS 3 launched, 6:37 p.m., EST,
ESMC.
Nov. 7:
Surveyor 6 launched, 2:39 a.m., EST, ESMC.
Nov. 9:
Apollo 4 launched, 7:00 a.m., EST, KSC. First successful launch and
flight of Saturn V launch vehicle.
Nov. 10:
ESSA 6 launched, 2:53 p.m., EST, WSMC.
Nov. 15:
X-15, No. 3 piloted by Major Michael J. Adams crashed,
Nov. 29:
Wresat 1 launched, first Australian satellite,
Woomera.
35
Years Ago - 1972
Nov. 9:
Anik 1 (Telesat 1)
launched, 8:14 p.m., EST, ESMC.
Nov. 16:
Explorer 48 launched, 5:13 p.m., EST (Nov. 15 EST) San Marco Facility,
30
Years Ago - 1977
Nov. 23: Meteosat
1 launched, 8:35 p.m., EST, ESMC.
25
Years Ago - 1982
Nov. 11: STS-5 (Space Shuttle Columbia)
launched, 7:19 a.m., EST, KSC. Astronauts: Vance D. Brand, Robert F. Overmyer, Joseph P. Allen, and William B. Lenoir. First Shuttle operational mission
deployed two commercial communications satellites, ANIK C-3 for TELESAT Canada and SitS-C for
Satellite Business Systems. Launched SBS 3 and Anik C 3 (Telesat 5). Landed
Nov. 16, 6:33 a.m., PST,
10
Years Ago – 1997
Nov. 19: STS-87 (Space Shuttle Columbia)
launched, 2:46 p.m. EST, KSC. Astronauts: Steven W. Lindsey, Kevin R. Kregel, Winston E. Scott, Kalpana
Chawla, Takao Doi, and
Leonid K. Kadenyuk.
Carried United States Microgravity Payload
(USMP-4). Landed December 5, 1997, 7:20 a.m. EST,
KSC.
5
Years Ago – 2002
Nov. 23: STS-113 launched 7:50 p.m. EST, KSC.
Astronauts: Paul Lockhart, Jim Wetherbee, Michael Lopez-Alegria,
John Herrington, Ken Bowersox, and Don Pettit. Also cosmonaut Nikolai
Budarin. International Space Station (ISS) Flight 11A. Delivered P1 (P-One) Truss and exchanged the
Expedition Five and Six crews. Landed
Dec. 7 at 2:37 p.m. EST,
KSC.
47 minutes.