Today In Space History
October 12

Space

• 1962 - US/USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications & meteorology


• 1964 - 1st time 3 people in space


• 1969 - 1st time 5 people in space


• 1972 - Mariner 9 takes pictures of Martian north pole


• 1975 - NASA launches space vehicle S-195


• 1976 - 4th Space Shuttle Enterprise, approach & land test (ALT) flight


• 1977 - 4th test of space shuttle Enterprise


• 1985 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61A mission


• 1992 - Arecibo radio telescope begins Microwave search for occupied planets


• 1994 - Contact with Venus orbitter Magellan broken

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