2001 – 2:41 p.m. EDT, Launch of STS-100 for the installation of CanadaArm 2 (Mobile Servicing System, MSS) to the International Space Station. Kent V. Rominger, Mission Commander; Jeffrey S. Ashby, Pilot; Chris A. Hadfield, (Canada) Mission Specialist; Scott E. Parazynski, Mission Specialist; John L. Phillips, Mission Specialist; Umberto Guidoni, Mission Specialist; Yuri Valentinovich Lonchakov, Mission Specialist.
Mission Objective: Mount the 57-foot-long Canadarm2 on the Destiny Laboratory for future station assembly work.
1982 – Salyut 7, Russian Space Station with a crew of five arrives in orbit.
1975 – India’s first satellite, Aryabhata, is launched by the Soviet Union from Kapustin Yar. Aryabhata was the first of the major mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy.
1971 – Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.