Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/1 February

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• 1958 - A Juno-I rocket launches Explorer 1, America's first satellite.
• 1969 - A Vostok rocket fails to launch a Meteor weather satellite, due to an upper stage malfunction.
• 1973 - A Voskhod rocket launches a Zenit-2M spy satellite.
• 1985 - A Kosmos-3M launches a Parus navigation satellite.
• 1986 - A Long March 3 launches the STTW-1 communication satellite.
• 1986 - A Molniya-M launches an Oko missile defence satellite.
• 1987 - A Tsyklon-2 launches a RORSAT technology demonstration satellite.
• 1990 - The crew of Mir perform an EVA to test new equipment.
• 1992 - Space Shuttle Discovery begins its first ODMP refit.
• 1993 - Soyuz TM-15 lands, with two cosmonauts returning from Mir.
• 1996 - An Atlas IIAS launches Palapa-C1, a communication satellite.
• 2000 - A Soyuz-U rocket launches a Progress spacecraft to reboost Mir.
• 2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during re-entry of mission STS-107, killing its crew of seven astronauts.