2019 – Crew Dragon Demo-1. The first uncrewed test of the vehicle.
2016 – NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko return to Earth via Soyuz TMA-18M after a year long mission on the International Space Station.
1998 – Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter’s moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
Europa
1998 – Soyuz-TM24 made a safe landing in Kazakhstan
1995 – Space Shuttle Endeavour launches from the Kennedy Space Center on STS-67, carrying the ASTRO 2 spacelab observatory.
1978 – Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28 with A.A. Gubarev to dock with Salyut 6 to carry out scientific research and experiments jointly developed by Soviet and Czechoslovak specialists
1972 – Pioneer 10 (USA) launched on an Atlas/Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral. It become the first probe fly through the asteroid belt and on to the planet Jupiter (in 1973). Pioneer 10 carries a plaque designed to identify its origin should the probe be encountered as it drifts through the Milky Way galaxy. Pioneer 10 is still returning data as of March 1999, and is 10.81 billion kilometers (6.716 billion miles) from Earth. 27 years after the launch the real-time tracks of Pioneer 10 are being used to train spacecraft controllers in tracking station protocol and data archiving procedures.
Birthdays
1960 – Mikhail Tyurin is a former Russian cosmonaut who flew several missions to the International Space Station and completed four spacewalks during his career. He was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation for his work as a cosmonaut. Selection: 1994 Cosmonaut Group STS-105/STS-108 (Expedition 3), Soyuz TMA-9 (Expedition 14), Soyuz TMA-11M (Expedition 38/39) Time in Space: 532 days, 02 hours, 50 minutes
