On April 26, 1962, Britain launched its first satellite, Ariel 1 This made the United Kingdom the third country to have a satellite in orbit after the U.S. and...
History
On April 25, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was deployed! Hubble is famous for taking some of the most amazing deep-space photos ever. It hitched a ride to...
On April 24, 1970, China became the fifth nation to independently launch a satellite into orbit. Dong Fang Hong I was the first of a series of satellites China...
On April 19, 1971, the Soviet Union launched the world’s first space station, Salyut 1. This space station was a modified version of the Soviet...
Radio traffic during VHF in the morning of 24.02.1997 revealed that something serious had happened on board the Russian Mir space station. Somewhat earlier...
Feb. 23, 1990: Pioneer 11 heads out of the solar system On Feb. 23, 1990, NASA’s Pioneer 11 spacecraft left the solar system! This was the second...
On Feb. 20, 1962, NASA astronaut John Glenn launched from Florida’s Cape Canaveral inside a tiny capsule named Friendship 7 The Mercury spacecraft...
February 1, 2003: Space Shuttle Columbia Disintegrates During Landing Killing Seven Astronauts The US space shuttle Columbia has broken up as it re-entered the...
In space history, without a doubt, the most important date is the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik to space on October 4, 1957 at 7:28 PM. The...
The European Space Agency was created as a merger of the European Launcher Development Organization, or ELDO, and the European Space Research Organisation...
