This day in space history...

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Wed May 12, 2004 9:31 am

gasp!!!!

meg · Post by **meg** » Wed May 12, 2004 1:13 pm

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Sat May 15, 2004 9:54 am

Sputnik III was launched.

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Thu May 20, 2004 10:21 am

1927 Charles Lindbergh took off from New York to cross the Atlantic for Paris aboard his airplane the "Spirit of St. Louis." The trip took 33 1/2 hours.

1932 Amelia Earhart took off and became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

1990 The Hubble Space Telescope sent back its first photographs.

CastAway · Post by **CastAway** » Thu May 20, 2004 1:00 pm

Did Earhart use the same date to take off on purpose...?

SpaceCanada · Post by **SpaceCanada** » Tue May 25, 2004 11:16 am

On this day in 1961, President John F. Kennedy made his speech stating that the United States of America would land a man on the moon before the decade was out.

meg · Post by **meg** » Fri May 28, 2004 5:44 pm

dern... im doing a history project on that and my presentation is this tuesday.
that would have been cool if i could have said...and it just so happens that my artifact happened today!

CastAway · Post by **CastAway** » Fri May 28, 2004 9:31 pm

Hmm... well, too bad you didn't mention that earlier... I did a whole paper on it, and you could have used me as a "source"!

meg · Post by **meg** » Sat May 29, 2004 10:58 am

that would have been cool. grrrr.

there's always next year.

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 3:42 pm

I've been lax about this recently, but today in history...

1920 The U.S. Post Office Department ruled that children may not be sent by parcel post. (only express

)
1927 Charles Lindbergh was honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City.
1983 Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system. It was launched in 1972.

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 2:55 pm

1983 Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.

meg · Post by **meg** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 7:25 pm

umm, that's tomorrow.

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 8:09 am

1995 The shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir docked, forming the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth.

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 10:52 am

1971 Soyuz 11 returned to Earth. Georgi Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky (43), Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov (35), and Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev (38) were found dead inside.

Drumrollz · Post by **Drumrollz** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 11:06 am

That was due to a leak, right? Something about they had a faulty valve or something....

CastAway · Post by **CastAway** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 5:10 pm

Benji wrote:1971 Soyuz 11 returned to Earth. Georgi Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky (43), Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov (35), and Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev (38) were found dead inside.

I've never heard of this one before. What happened?

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 6:21 pm

Soyuz 11 had a problem where a faulty valve opened while in orbit and depressurised the cabin. The crew was not wearing any space suits because the soyuz design at that time didnt allow for the suits of the day to beable to fit inside with 3 people. The crew died in orbit. The valve was redesigned and the crew reduced to 2 on future flights to allow for suits which later suit designs and improvements to the soyuz design later allowed for 3 crew to fly it again. The nissiohn control in moscow suspected a problem when communications with the capsule were lost prior to reentry but it wasnt known what happened till they opened the capsule and found the crew dead. Efforts to revive them were unsuccessful.

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 7:16 pm

LB206 wrote:The crew died in orbit.

Do we know they died in orbit? I had heard it was in the early stages of reentry.

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 8:25 pm

Ok maybe i should have said in space. It was early in the reentry that communications were lost too early to be ionization so if they had already hit the atmosphere it was still in the very upper reaches.

CastAway · Post by **CastAway** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 1:55 am

Wait... so did they die technically in space? I always thought nobody had died in space yet.