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datasets.AQUAINT.RawTexts.APW19981020_1367.htm Maven / Gradle / Ivy

   Shepard, Glenn set first two milestones

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 May 5, 1961:  Alan Shepard   becomes first American in space. 

 Feb. 20, 1962:  John Glenn   becomes first American in  orbit  . 

 Jan. 27, 1967:  Gus Grissom  ,  Edward White   II and  Roger Chaffee   die in  Apollo 1    spacecraft   fire on  launch pad  . 

 July 20, 1969:  Apollo 11  's  Neil Armstrong   and  Buzz Aldrin   land on  moon  . 

 July 17, 1975: American Apollo and Soviet  Soyuz spacecraft   link in orbit. 

 April 12, 1981:  Columbia   soars on first  space shuttle   flight. 

 June 18, 1983:  Sally Ride   becomes first American woman in space. 

 Jan. 28, 1986:  Challenger   explodes, killing all seven on board. 

 April 25, 1990:  Hubble Space Telescope   is released into orbit. 

 Dec. 2, 1993: First Hubble repair mission is launched. 

 March 14, 1995:  Norman Thagard   is first American to be launched on a Russian  rocket  . Two days later, he becomes first American to visit  Mir  . 

 June 29, 1995:  Atlantis   docks with Mir in first shuttle-station hookup. 

 Sept. 26, 1996:  Shannon Lucid   returns to Earth after 188-day Mir mission, a U.S. space endurance record and a world record for women. 

 Nov. 19, 1996:  Story Musgrave  , at age 61, becomes oldest man in space. 

 Oct. 29, 1998:  Discovery  is scheduled to blast off, carrying 77-year-old John Glenn back into orbit and making him oldest man in space.