At 11.39am Challenger lifted off, and seventy-three seconds later the Shuttle began to disintegrate following a huge fireball. All seven members of crew were killed, and the disaster led to NASA suspending all Space Shuttle missions for over two and a half years.
The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the iconic Blue Marble photograph of the earth.
The oldest meteorite with a known date of impact crashed into a wheat field outside the Alsatian town of Ensisheim.
The Prospero satellite was launched, making it the first and only British satellite to be launched using a British rocket.
On the 20th July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin successfully landed the Eagle, the Lunar Module of Apollo 11, on the surface of the moon.
Telstar’s first broadcast involved relaying an image of a flag outside its base station at Andover Earth Station to the Pleumeur-Bodou earth station in France.
On the 25th May 1961, American President John F. Kennedy made the announcement to a joint session of Congress that he had set his sights on a manned moon landing before the end of the decade.
The resulting emergency led to the calm announcement by the crew of, ‘Houston we’ve had a problem’.
Pale Blue Dot, the most distant photograph ever taken of Earth, was created by the Voyager 1 space probe.
On the 28th January 1986, the NASA Space Shuttle orbiter Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after it lifted off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
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