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On Theses Day in Space History 11/12th Aug.
1933 August 11 – GIRD-09 launch attempt, but failed. Models of Gird Rockets 1933 August 11 – (Magdeburg) Nebel rocket – Germany’s second attempt from Schwielow Lake. The rocket goes horizontal and hits the water in the lake’s steamboat channel. 1961 August 11 – Birth of Frederick Wilford ‘Rick’ Sturckow – American test pilot and…
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On These Days In Space History 9/10th August
1911 August 9 – Birth of Oscar Bauschinger – German engineer in WW2, member of the Rocket Team in the United States thereafter 1918 August 9 – Birth of Nikolai Nikolayevich Smirnitskiy – Russian officer. Commander of GURVO 1967-1975. Thereafter moved to Ministry of General Machine Building. 1920 August 9 – Birth of Joseph Vincent…
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On These Days In History 7/8 August
1908 August 7 – Birth of Josef Maria Boehm – Austrian-German engineer in WW2, member of the Rocket Team in the United States thereafter. 1951 August 7 – Launched fromWhite Sands LC33, Launch Pad ALA1. Viking 7 Ionosphere-solar mission – A Navy Viking 7 rocket set an altitude record for single-stage rockets and reaching a…
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On These Days in Space History 5th/6th August
1905 August 5 – Birth of Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan – Russian Chief Designer, Dabbled in rocketplanes and built and flew the MiG-105 Spiral spaceplane (Below) 1912 August 5 – Birth of Konrad Dannenberg – German engineer in WW2, Then became a member of the Rocket Team in the United States 1930 August 5 – Birth…
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These Days in Space History. Aug1st/2nd
1914 August 1 – Birth of Emil A H, Hellebrandt – Austrian-German engineer in WW2, member of the Rocket Team in the United States thereafter. 1922 August 1 – Birth of Fred Wallace – American engineer. Atlas Chief of Test Operations at Sycamore Canyon. 1927 August 1 – Birth of Benjamin Wier – American engineer.…
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Blog for August/ ISS Passes / Radio Warwickshire
Planets Venus, August 1st If you are up early on from August 1st (4am) Venus will start to appear brilliantly in the Eastern sky. At magnitude –3.8. Unmissable. Saturn still remains an attractive sight. in the Constellation Libra from nightfall until the early hours. If you look south West, at a Magnitude of around +0.5 The planet…
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On These Day’s In Space History.
1920 – July 28: Birth of Vsevolod Sergeyevich Avduyevskiy – Russian scientist. First Deputy Director of TsNIIMash 1973-1987. Scientist at NII-1 1953-1973 1947 – July 28: Birth of Alexei Sergeyevich Borodai – Ukrainian test pilot, cosmonaut, 1979-1993. 1960 – July 28: Apollo Program Announced – Name ‘Apollo’ selected by Silverstein. Conference with aerospace industry outlined NASA’s plans for…
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This Weekend in Space History 26/27th July.
26th July 1944 – Birth of Rimantas Antanas-Antonovich Stankiavicius – Lithuanian test pilot, cosmonaut, 1977-1990. Buran Test Pilot. 1948 – From Launch Complex:White Sands (LC35). Launch Vehicle: Aerobee RTV-N-8. Earth imaging mission – . Photography research. Two separate rockets fired from White Sands, one a V-2 which reached an altitude of 87 km, the other a Navy…
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On This Day in Space History
1916 – Birth of Alfred Johannes Finzel -German engineer in WW2, member of the Rocket Team in the United States thereafter 1932 – Birth of Paul Joseph Weitz – American pilot, astronaut. Flew on Skylab 2, STS-6. Weitz was a member of the first successful space station mission. 1949 – XS-1 Flight 120 – . The Crew: Everest. Manned…
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On This Day In Space History.
1940 – Birth of Daniel S Goldin – American engineer, NASA Administrator 1992-2001. 1945 – Launch Vehicle: V-2. German space plans revealed to US public. Life magazine published drawings of a manned space station as envisioned by the German rocket scientists of Peenemünd 1956 – X-2 Flight 13 – Crew: Everest. Manned rocketplane – Spacecraft: X-2 .Lt. Col. Frank K. Everest (USAF) flew the Bell X-2 rocket-powered research plane at…
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