{"id":824,"date":"2012-10-05T14:41:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T14:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=824"},"modified":"2012-10-05T14:41:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T14:41:09","slug":"weeks-worth-space-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/weeks-worth-space-history\/","title":{"rendered":"A Week's Worth of Space History"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll be on the road for a few days, and I’m not sure how the connectivity will be, and<\/u> I wasn’t forward-thinking enough to front-load a bunch of space history items for automatic posting, so … here are a few different space history items that you can enjoy* all at once.<\/p>\n

One hundred thirty years ago today — October 5, 1882 — Robert H. Goddard, the father of modern liquid-fueled rocketry, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

Twenty years ago tomorrow — October 6, 1992 — the joint Swedish-German Freja<\/a> mission to study the aurora was launched on a Chinese Long March rocket out of Jiuquan. (It was launched along with the PRC 36<\/a> mission.)<\/p>\n

Ten years ago Sunday — October 7, 2002 — the Space Shuttle Atlantis<\/em> launched from Kennedy Space Center on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The crew of STS-112<\/a> consisted of U.S. astronauts Sandra H. Magnus, David A. Wolf, Pamela A. Melroy, Jeffrey S. Ashby, and Piers J. Sellers, along with cosmonaut Fyodor N. Yurchikhin. They delivered and installed a new truss as part of the station’s structural support system.<\/p>\n

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\n(The International Space Station, taken from STS-112. NASA image.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\nAnd finally, let’s note two other space station-related launches in this compendium:<\/p>\n