CHRONOLOGY
– NOVEMBER 2008
3/21/06
85 Years Ago – 1923
Nov.18:
Alan Shepard born,
50
Years Ago -- 1958
Nov. 8:
Pioneer 2 (second US-IGY space probe) launched. Failed.
Reached altitude of 963 miles, 2:30 a.m., EST, ESMC.
Nov. 26:
Project Mercury designation officially approved.
45 Years Ago -- 1963
Nov.
11: First
off-the-pad abort test of the Apollo launch escape system successfully tested
at
Nov. 22: First live
transmission of TV signals across Pacific via communications satellite by Relay
1. Assassination of
President John F. Kennedy.
Nov. 26: Explorer 18 –
launch of first interplanetary monitoring platform to observe interplanetary
space at 02:24:00 UTC, ESMC.
Nov. 27:
First successful use of liquid hydrogen as a rocket fuel in space.
Atlas-Centaur stage entered orbit, after launch from ESMC, 2:03 p.m., EST.
Nov. 29:
Cape Canaveral renamed
Chronology
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40
Years Ago – 1968
Nov. 8:
Pioneer 9/TETR 2 launched, 4:46 a.m., EST, ESMC.
Nov.10:
Zond 6 Launch (Soviet Moon Orbit & Return)
35 Years Ago – 1973
Nov. 1:
First flight of supercritical wing on F-111,
Nov. 3: Mariner
10 -- (Venus & Mercury Flyby Mission) First spacecraft to
explore the planet Mercury.
First spacecraft to use
gravitational pull of one planet [Venus] to reach another [Mercury].
Nov. 6:
NOAA 3 launched, 12:02 p.m., EST, WSMC.
Nov. 16:
Skylab 4 launched, 9:0l p.m., EST, KSC. Last manned flight of Skylab program. Astronauts
Gerald Carr, Edward Gibson, and William Pogue.
30
Years Ago -- 1978
Nov. 13:
HEAO 2 launched, 12:24 a.m., EST, ESMC.
Nov.
18: NATO III C launched, 7:46 p.m., EST, ESMC.
25
Years Ago -- 1983
Nov. 28:
STS 9 (Spacelab 1) launched, 11:00 a.m., EST, KSC. Fifth
flight of space shuttle
20 Years Ago – 1988
Nov.15:
Buran Launch (Soviet Space Shuttle).
10
Years Ago -- 1998
Nov.
22: Galileo, Europa 18 Flyby.