The first sounding rocket, Nike-Apache, was launched rocket on 21 Nov 1963. The project director for this Sodium vapor cloud experiment was Prof. P. D. Bhavsar.
🚀Monday 16
1962: Saturn SA-3 launched
1965: Venera 3 launched
1973: Skylab 4 crew launched on 84-day mission
1974: Interstellar message broadcast from Arecibo radio telescope
2009: STS-129 Atlantis launched
🚀Tuesday 17
1967: Surveyor 6 lift off from Moon.
1970: Luna 17 lands on Moon; Lunokhod 1 rover becomes first wheeled vehicle on Moon
2016: Soyuz MS-03 launched carrying ISS Expedition 50/51 crew
🚀Wednesday 18
1923: Alan Shepard born
1961: Ranger 2 launched by USA
1989: Cosmic Background Explorer launched
2013: MAVEN spacecraft launched to Mars
🚀Thursday 19
1969: Apollo 12 makes second lunar landing
1996: STS-80 Columbia launched
1997: STS-87 Columbia launched
1999: China launched Shenzhou-1
2005: Hayabusa spacecraft makes first liftoff from an asteroid
🚀Friday 20
1889: Edwin Hubble born
1981: Bhaskara 2 launched
1998: Zarya module launched, first element of International Space Station
2002: First Delta IV launched
2004: Swift spacecraft launched
🚀Saturday 21
1960: Redstone 1 launched
1963: INDIA🇮🇳🇮🇳 launched first sounding rocket💪💪
🚀Sunday 22
1989: STS-33 Discovery launched
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