A Saturn IB launch vehicle blasts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, July 5, 1966. Primary mission objectives: “evaluation of the S-IVB stage’s hydrogen venting and engine restart capabilities in an orbital environment.”
(NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center)
November 29, 1961 — The Mercury-Atlas 5 mission carries Enos the astro-chimp into space. (NASA)
Apollo 6 blasts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida on April 4, 1968.
(NASA)
November 14, 1969 — Apollo 12 blasts off. Birds are upset.
(NASA)
1961
The Silo Test Launch Facility was designed for a Titan II, but because the Titan II was not ready, they used a Titan I to test the operational status of the silo. The second stage was filled with water and had an inert reentry vehicle, for testing purposes.
First Atlas F Launch from
Vandenberg AFB, CA
Aug 1, 1962
Redstone MRBM as the Jupiter A
Army Ballistic Missile Agency; Huntsville, AL
c. 1957
November 16, 2009 — The Space Shuttle Atlantis roars into Earth orbit to rendezvous with the International Space Station.
November 16, 2009 — The Space Shuttle Atlantis heads toward Earth orbit to rendezvous with the International Space Station.
(NASA)
The Space Shuttle Atlantis roars into space on November 16, 2009.
(NASA)
November 12, 1981 — NASA’s second Space Shuttle mission begins when the orbiter Columbia blasts off from Launch Pad 39A at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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The Gemini 9 Agena Target Vehicle blasts off from Cape Canaveral on May 17, 1966.
As the Moon looms in the background, Apollo 8 blasts off on December 21, 1968.
(NASA)
The Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on April 24, 1990 at 8:33:51am (EDT).
(NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center)
November 9, 1967 — In the first flight of a Saturn V
November 7, 2013 — The Soyuz TMA-11M rocket blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying spacemen Mikhail Tyurin, Rick Mastracchio, and Koichi Wakata to the International Space Station.
(NASA)
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