weak on space: 13-19 APRIL

APRIL 13 TO 19 IN SPACE........

Monday 13

1959: Discoverer 2 launched

1960:Transit-1B Launched

Tuesday 14

1629: Christiaan Huygens born

1972: KSC and Vandenberg AFB picked as shuttle launch sites

1981: STS-1 Columbia lands

2005: Expedition 11 crew launched to International Space Station

Wednesday 15

1999: Landsat 7 launched

Thursday 16

1867: Wilbur Wright born

1946: First captured V2 rocket launched from White Sands, NM

1965: First test-firing of Saturn V rocket first stage (S-IC)

1972: Apollo 16 launched

 Friday 17

1967: Surveyor 3 launched

1969: First X-24A lifting body glide test

1970: Apollo 13 crew returns to Earth

1998: STS-90 Columbia launched

Satruday 18

2001: GSAT 1 launched by GSLV MK 1

2014: LADEE spacecraft intentionally crashed into Moon at end of mission

2018: TESS spacecraft launched

Sunday 19

1967: Surveyor 3 lands on Moon

1971: Salyut 1 launched, first space station.

1975: Aryabhata , India's first satellite launched

1982: Salyut 7 launched

1993: 200th Soviet / Russian spacewalk

2001: STS-100 Endeavour launched

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Abhinav P Pradeep, wayanad, Kerala, India

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