Thirty-five years ago today -- September 9, 1975 -- the Viking-2 orbiter and lander were launched on their way to Mars by a Titan-IIIE booster out of Cape Canaveral. (First color image of Utopia Planitia taken by the Viking-2 lander. NASA image.) The first Viking lander had been launched a few weeks earlier, as noted in this blog post. Viking-2 landed about a year after launch ...
Ten years ago today -- September 8, 2000 -- the Space Shuttle Atlantis launched from the Kennedy Space Center on a mission to prepare the International Space Station to receive its first crew. (STS-106 launch. NASA image.) STS-106 carried astronauts Terrence W. Wilcutt, Scott D. Altman, Daniel C. Burbank, Edward T. Lu, and Richard A. Mastracchio, along with ...
Fifteen years ago today -- September 7, 1995 -- the Space Shuttle Endeavour launched from the Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-69. (Close-up of STS-69 launch. NASA image.) STS-69's crew -- David M. Walker, Kenneth D. Cockrell, James S. Voss, James H. Newman, and Michael L. Gernhardt -- deployed and retrieved two satellites, the first time that happened on ...
Twenty-five years ago today -- August 27, 1985 -- astronauts Joe H. Engle, Richard O. Covey, James D. Van Hoften, William F. Fisher and John M. Lounge lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. (Unidentified STS-51I astronaut in the Shuttle Discovery's open cargo bay. NASA image.) Mission STS-51I lasted a week, during which the crew deployed three ...
Forty-five years ago today -- August 21, 1965 -- astronauts Gordon L. Cooper, Jr., and Charles P. “Pete” Conrad, Jr. launched from Cape Canaveral on the Gemini-V mission. (Gemini-V launch. NASA image.) Cooper and Conrad spent eight days in space, evaluating the effects of prolonged weightlessness and testing rendezvous capabilities and maneuvers in advance of the Apollo missions to the ...
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