April 12, 1961 marks the first manned space flight. The 27-year-old Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin circled the Earth for 1 hour and 48 minutes aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft.The holiday is celebrated in Russia and some other former USSR countries. April 12 also marks the first flight of the Space Shuttle about twenty years later. (wikipedia)
On March 01, 1912, Russian scientist Boris Evseyevich Chertok was born. Chertok pioneered numerous control systems of ballistic missiles and spacecraft. He was the author of a four-volume book titled "Rockets and People," which is renowned as the definitive source of information about the history of the Soviet space program. (astronautix)
February 3, 1966 was a day of two 'firsts' during the Space Race between the United States and Soviet Union.
The United States launched the first meteorological satellite, the ESSA-1 and the Soviet Union successfully landed a probe, Luna 9, on the surface of the Moon for the first soft landing on another celestial body. (About.com)
The Explorer 1, aka 1958 Alpha 1, launched onboard a Jupiter C vehicle from Cape Canaveral on 31 January 1958. Explorer-I was the first satellite successfully launched by the United States. The satellite remained in orbit until 1970 and was the first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen radiation belt. Although non-commercial, the launch of Explorer 1 was a historic moment for satellite launching. (NASA)
August 14, 2001 - Angara has its first successful test firing of its RD-191 engine
June 17, 1992 - President of Russia Boris Yeltsin and U.S. President George W. Bush signed the Agreement on Cooperation in the field of space research for peaceful purposes
05 May 1955 - The first stone that marked the construction of the city of Leninsk at the Baikonur Cosmodrome was laid
"Luna 9 (E-6 series) (internal name E-6 N. 13) was an unmanned space mission of the Soviet Union's Luna program. On February 3, 1966 the Luna 9 spacecraft was the first spacecraft to achieve a soft landing on the moon, and hence any planetary body other than Earth, and to transmit photographic data to Earth." (Wikipedia)
The Explorer 1, aka 1958 Alpha 1, launched onboard a Jupiter C vehicle from Cape Canaveral on 31 January 1958. Explorer-I was the first satellite successfully launched by the United States. The satellite remained in orbit until 1970 and was the first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen radiation belt. Although non-commercial, the launch of Explorer 1 was a historic moment for satellite launching. (NASA)
November 3, 2011 - The Soviet Union launches the first animal into space — a dog name Laika — aboard the Sputnik 2 spacecraft. ( The Province)
October 04, 1957 - The Soviet Union launches the Sputnik 1 and started the International Space Race! For more, information check this out.
September 1, 1969 - The Canadian government created Telesat Canada, a corporation with mixed private and government ownership to operate Canadian domestic communications satellites. Telesat, which launched Canada's Anik, Nimiq and MSAT communications satellites, was privatized in 1993. (Canadian Space History) Over the years ILS has launched 7 satellites for Telesat.
On August 4, 1958 the first fully powered Atlas was successfully launched. (Ocala StarBanner Newspaper)
July 2011 marked the end of NASA's shuttle history, which spanned over three decades. On 08 July, the Atlantis Space Shuttle lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center. The Atlantis and its crew will deliver the Raffaello multipurpose logistics module containing supplies and spare parts for the International Space Station. The mission is set to last 12 days.(eweek)
On the 16 June 1963, Valentina Tereshkova become both the first woman and the first civilian to fly in space. During her three-day mission, she performed various tests on herself to collect data on the female body's reaction to spaceflight.
"On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin strapped into Soviet Vostok-1 spaceship and launched into space. For 108 minutes, the 27-year-old flew through the air, breaking through onto the last frontier of mankind and setting the stage for the great space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union." (Washington Post)
On 24 February 1984, President Ronald Reagan signed Executive Order 12465 designating the Department of Transportation as the lead agency within the Federal government for encouraging and facilitating American commercial space launch activities. (DOT Historian)
The Explorer 1, aka 1958 Alpha 1, launched onboard a Jupiter C vehicle from Cape Canaveral on 31 January 1958. Explorer-I was the first satellite successfully launched by the United States. The satellite remained in orbit until 1970 and was the first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen radiation belt. Although non-commercial, the launch of Explorer 1 was a historic moment for satellite launching. (NASA)
Signed by President Ronald Reagan on 30 October, 1984. The Commercial Space Launch Act “sought to encourage the development of the emerging commercial space launch industry. The Act created a licensing mechanism to enable quick and efficient compliance with existing Federal regulations.”(SpaceRef)
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