2025 – Blue Origin successfully completed its tenth human spaceflight and the 30th flight for the New Shepard program.

2015 – ISS EVA (spacewalk) conducted by  Virts, Wilmore.

2013– Launched is “Saphhire” a Canadian Forces satellite for space object surveillance and missile early warning, based with a 0.15m visible-light telescope.

2010 – NASA Pioneer Aaron Cohen Dies.

1977 – Soyuz 32 Launch at Baikonur– Crew: Lyakhov, Ryumin. Backup Crew: Lebedev, Popov. Docked with Salyut 6 space station to conduct scientific investigations and experiments and repair work.

1977 – Landing of Soyuz 24 Return Crew: Glazkov, Gorbatko. Nation: Russia. Related Persons: Glazkov, Gorbatko. Program: Almaz. Flight: Soyuz 24. Soyuz 24 landed at 09:38 GMT, 37 km NE pf Arkalyk. (http://www.astronautix.com/)

1960 – Soviet Air Force Cosmonaut Training Group 1 selected.The group was selected to provide pilot astronauts for the Vostok manned spaceflight program. Anikeyev, Belyayev, Bondarenko, Bykovsky, Filatyev, Gagarin, Gorbatko, Kartashov, Khrunov, Komarov, Leonov, Nelyubov, Nikolayev, Popovich, Rafikov, Shonin, Titov, Varlamov, Volynov, Zaikin.

1949 – WAC Corporal Launch. It was the first sounding rocket developed in the United States

Birthdays

1670 – Maria Margarethe Kirch, German astronomer and mathematician. She was one of the first famous astronomers of her time due to her writing on the conjunction of the sun with Saturn, Venus, and Jupiter in 1709 and 1712 respectively. (d. 29 December 1720)