2005 – Soyuz TMA-6 launches to ISS with Sergei Krikalev, John Phillips, Roberto Vittori from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Docked to ISS: April 17, 2005, 02:20 UTC (to Pirs module).
The Intrepid Museum (originally the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum) is a military and maritime history museum in New York City, United States. It is located at Pier 86 at 46th Street, along the Hudson River, in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood on the West Side of Manhattan.
1999 – Launch of Landsat 7 for NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket from NASA’s Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base.
1970 – Apollo 13 swings behind the Moon. The crew reached a distance of 401,056 km from the center of the earth, an all-time altitude record. At 02:40:39 GMT the cold, exhausted, and ailing crew conducted a completely manual 4 minute 23 second burn of the LM descent engine to reduce the coast time back to earth and moved the landing point from the Indian Ocean to the South Pacific.
1961 – Yuri Gagarin, first human in space, is awarded the Order of Lenin.
1800 – James Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole.
Birthdays
1960 – Mikhail Kornienko, 1998 Cosmonaut Group, Missions: Soyuz TMA-18 (Expedition 23/24), Soyuz TMA-16M/Soyuz TMA-18M (Expedition 43/44/45/46, ISS year-long mission) EVAs: 2 Total Time: 12 hours 13 mins. Time In Space: 516d 10h 1m
1965 – Soichi Noguchi, JAXA astronaut, Selection: 1996 NASDA Group, NASA Group 16 (1996). Total EVAs: 4 Total EVA Time: 27 hours, 1 minute. Missions: 27 hours, 1 minute
1956 – Greg Harbaugh American Astronaut, NASA Group 12 (1987); Missions: STS-39, STS-54, STS-71, STS-82. Time in Space: 34d 1h 59m
1951 – Marsha Ivins American Astronaut, Selection: NASA Group 10 (1984) Missions: STS-32, STS-46, STS-62, STS-81, STS-98 Time in Space: 55d 21h 48m
1951 – John L. Phillips American Astronaut NASA Group 16 (1996) Missions: STS-100, Soyuz TMA-6 (Expedition 11), STS-119 Time in Space: 203 days, 17 hrs, 22 mins.
1921 – Georgy Beregovoy who was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the space mission Soyuz 3 in 1968. From 1972 to 1987, he headed the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.
1793 – Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve born in Altona, Denmark. [now in Germany] Struve founded the modern study of binary stars. He died 23 November 1864 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1452– Leonardo da Vinci born in the Republic of Florence. Died at age 67 in Amboise, Kingdom of France.