2017 – SpaceX conducts the world’s first reflight of an orbital class rocket.
2006 – The Soyuz TMA-8 spacecraft launches to the ISS for a long duration mission. It carried two members of the Expedition 13 crew to the ISS, Pavel Vinogradov and Jeffrey Williams
1982 – STS-3, Columbia, lands at 9:04:46 a.m. MST, Runway 17, Northrup Strip, White Sands, New Mexico. Crew: Commander, Jack R. Lousma, and Pilot, C. Gordon Fullerton Rollout distance: 13,737 feet. Rollout time: 84 seconds. Landing site changed from Edwards to White Sands due to wet conditions on Edwards dry lake bed landing site. High winds at White Sands resulted in one day extension of mission. Some brake damage upon landing and dust storm caused extensive contamination of orbiter.
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Yelena Kondakova is the third Soviet or Russian female cosmonaut to travel to space and the first woman to make a long-duration spaceflight.[2] Her first trip into space was on Soyuz TM-20 on 4 October 1994. She returned to Earth on 22 March 1995, after a five-month stay at the Mir space station. Kondakova’s second flight was as a mission specialist on the United States Space Shuttle Atlantis during mission STS-84 in May 1997.
