1988 – EVA Mir EO-3-1 – Crew Manarov, Titov, Vladimir. EVA Duration: 0.18 days. Completed solar array installation. Inspected exterior of station.
1977 – Salyut 5 jettisons earth return capsule – The Earth Return Capsule serial number 11F76-0505 was successfully recovered. During the 1990’s it was auctoned off at Sotheby’s for $48,875.
1979 – Final shuttle tests at NASA Huntsville – the full mated shuttle stack with the external tank and solid rocket motors loaded with water to simulate the weights at various flight phases.
1966 – The first flight test of the Saturn IB and an Apollo spacecraft at Cape Kennedy.
1962 – John Glenn Day in Washington, D.C. A reception at the White House, a parade, and an address to joint session of Congress.
Birthdays
1842 – Birthday, Camille Flammarion, prolific and widely read popularizer of astronomy and the notion of there being extraterrestrial life. Flammarion is also associated with M104. It is numerically the first object of the Messier catalog which was not included in Messier’s originally published catalog. However, Messier added it by hand in his personal copy on 11th May 1781 as a “very faint nebula.” It was Flammarion who found that its position coincided with Herschel’s H I.43, which is the Sombrero galaxy, and added it to the official Messier list.
1928 – Anatoli Vassilyevich Filipchenko – Russian pilot cosmonaut 1963-1982. 2 spaceflights, 10.9 days in space. Flew to orbit on Soyuz 7 (1969), Soyuz 16.