This day in space history...

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 7:29 am

Depends where you define space. There's no absolute place where the atmosphere ends. The X-Prize rules defines it as 100 kilometers, but any definition is mostly arbitrary.

MAYTAG · Post by **MAYTAG** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 10:31 am

so what would it be classified at in nasa? could you say they died in space then?

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 6:47 am

I don't know the answer to that one, but I do know that today in 1997 (8 years ago already, if you can believe it) Pathfinder released Sojourner on the surface of Mars. The spacecraft landed on the red planet on July 4th.

CastAway · Post by **CastAway** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 4:17 pm

Wow, that is amazing... 8 years ago... I remember where I was, and everything! I still have my local paper from July 5... somewhere...

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 10:50 am

1955 The U.S. Air Force Academy was dedicated in Colorado Springs, CO, at Lowry Air Base.
1977 The Medal of Freedom was awarded posthumously to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in a White House ceremony.
1979 Skylab returned to Earth.

Drumrollz · Post by **Drumrollz** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 11:22 am

If I'm not mistaken, yesterday was the 35th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing?

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 11:26 am

35th anniversary of liftoff of Apollo 11. They landed on the Moon on July 20.

In 1975 today, the "Handshake in Space" occurred; Apollo and Soyuz docked and the crews shook hands.

Drumrollz · Post by **Drumrollz** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 11:28 am

I knew it was something like that.
I was close!

meg · Post by **meg** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 3:29 pm

Benji wrote:In 1975 today, the "Handshake in Space" occurred; Apollo and Soyuz docked and the crews shook hands.

wow. lol.

dan, did you get that calendar from camp too?

monkeynautt · Post by **monkeynautt** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 7:35 am

35 years today since man first set foot on the moon.

meg · Post by **meg** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 11:03 am

Drumrollz · Post by **Drumrollz** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 4:03 pm

Calendar?

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 4:18 pm

ARe you talking about the free calendar you could find in the gift shop?

monkeynautt · Post by **monkeynautt** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 7:05 pm

I got one at Christmas camp grad. they had a table of free stuff at the back.

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 10:44 pm

Hmm so thats the calendar i picked up...

ApolloXI · Post by **ApolloXI** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 7:26 pm

One of our local news station screwed up on the moon landing. They said that the moon landing was 50 years ago. That would mean my dad was -4 years old when they landed.

MAYTAG · Post by **MAYTAG** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:57 pm

yea all of u know the story about the a being left out in the little speech im assuming and well being idiots our local station reversed the story saying it was in there when i shouldnt have been its like hello everyone has heard "It's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" unless ur into it you dont even know the a is supposed to be in there

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 6:55 am

Today in 1790, The Columbia, namesake of the Space Shuttle Columbia, returned to Boston Harbor after a three-year voyage. It was the first ship to carry the American flag around the world.

spacebarfie · Post by **spacebarfie** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 11:55 am

1977 - first test glide of Space Shuttle Enterprise

1978 - US International Sun-Earth Explorer was launched making it the third International Sun-Earth Explorer satellite

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 7:31 am

1960 - The Soviet Union launched a Vostock spacecraft contaning tow dogs, Strelka and Belka, as well as a gray rabbit, rats, mice, flies, plants, fungi, microscopic water plants, and seeds. Soviet scientists were able to monitor the health of the dogs and the spacecraft landed safely the next day.