This Week In Space History


      Saturday July 31st:
            1964 Ranger-7 Impacts. Success!! 4316 photos. Best resolution 16 inches.
            1969 Mariner-6 Flyby of Mars (2,120 mi). Now in solar orbit.
            1980 Soyuz-37/36 Lands.
            1992 Launch of STS-46 - Shriver, Allen, Hoffman, Ivins, Chang-Diaz, Nicollier, Malerba.
Eureca and Tethered Satellite.
            2009 Landing of Endeavour, after mission STS-127 on KSC runway 15.

      Sunday August 1st:
            1967 Lunar Orbiter-5 Moon orbit. Map for Apollo. Last in series.
            1990 Soyuz TM-10 Launch. Manakov, Strekalov. To MIR.

      Monday August 2nd:
            1958 Atlas first successful launch.
            1991 Launch of STS-43 - Blaha, Baker, Lucid, Low, Adamson. TDRS deployment.

      Tuesday August 3rd:
            2004 NASA's Messenger probe to Mercury launched.
Flybys in January and October 2008, September 2009.
Orbit in March 2011.

      Wednesday August 4th:
            1984 Ariane 3 First successful launch. 2 sats.
            2007 Launch of Phoenix Mars Scout. Replacement for failed Mars Polar Lander.
Scheduled landing May 25 2008.

      Thursday August 5th:
            1969 Mariner-7 Flyby of Mars (2,190 mi). Now in solar orbit.
            1997 Soyuz TM-26 Launch. Solovyov and Vinogradov (Mir-24 crew).

      Friday August 6th:
            1961 Second man in orbit, Gherman Titov (Vostok 2, 111 x 160 nm, 17 revs)
            1985 STS 51-F Lands at Edwards Air Force Base.




Space history data compiled by Jay Apt.   Thanks to the following good sources:
TRW Space Log, NASA Glenn Research Center Space Calendar,
Rick von Glahn's CompuServe SpaceForum archive,
Jonathan's Space Report, and astronautix.com

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