2003 – STS 107 Columbia launches from Cape Canaveral. It was the 113th flight of the Space Shuttle program and the final flight of Columbia which met a tragic end on landing on February 1.

1969 – Launch of Soyuz 5. It was the first-ever docking of two manned spacecraft and is known for the dramatic re-entry, a hard landing, which broke the teeth of first time cosmonaut,
Boris Volynov.

Birthdays

1952 – L. Blaine Hammond, American pilot and astronaut.

1955 – Jerry M. Linenger, American doctor and astronaut.