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On This Day in Space! June 12, 1967: Venera 4 launches on mission to Venus

On This Day in Space! Feb 26, 1966: 1st launch of Saturn 1B rocket

On This Day in Space! Feb. 26, 1966: 1st launch of Saturn 1B rocket Space 26/02/2021 Hanneke Weitering © Provided by Space NASA s first Saturn 1B rocket launches into space carrying the first Apollo spacecraft on Feb. 26, 1966. On Feb. 26, 1966, NASA launched its new Saturn IB rocket on its first test flight.  Also known as the Uprated Saturn I, the Saturn IB was built for the Apollo program. With a more powerful upper stage, it was designed to carry the Apollo Command/Service Module and Lunar Module into low-Earth orbit. NASA used the Saturn IB for flight tests early on in the Apollo program, but this type of rocket never actually launched astronauts to the moon. For that, they used an even more powerful rocket, the Saturn V. The first flight of the Saturn IB was uncrewed. Among other things, the mission tested the rocket s propulsion, guidance and electrical systems.

On This Day in Space! Feb 21, 1931: Germany s 1st liquid-fuel rocket (barely) launches

On This Day in Space! Feb. 21, 1931: Germany s 1st liquid-fuel rocket (barely) launches Space 2/21/2021 Hanneke Weitering © Provided by Space A look at the Hückel-Winkler 1, the first German-built liquid fueled rocket, which launched on Feb. 21, 1931. On Feb. 21, 1931, Germany launched its first liquid-fueled rocket … sort of.  The rocket only made it about 10 feet off the ground. To be fair, the rocket itself was only two feet tall, so it did achieve an altitude of about five times its height. The rocket was named Hückel-Winkler 1 after the engineers who designed and built it.  Hückel-Winkler 1 was powered by a combination of liquid oxygen and liquid methane. It lifted off from a drilling field near Dessau, Germany on two separate flights. After the first launch was a failure, the rocket did reach its planned altitude of 500 feet during its second flight three weeks later. 

On This Day in Space! Feb 20, 1962: John Glenn becomes 1st American to orbit Earth

On This Day in Space! Feb. 20, 1962: John Glenn becomes 1st American to orbit Earth Space 20/02/2021 Hanneke Weitering © Provided by Space John Glenn aboard the spacecraft Friendship 7 during his historic orbital mission of Feb. 20, 1962. John Glenn was the third American to launch into space and the third human to orbit Earth. Two Soviet cosmonauts had orbited Earth before him. He blasted off from Cape Canaveral in a Mercury spacecraft named Friendship 7 and circled the Earth three times.  The mission lasted close to 5 hours. After a bumpy re-entry, Friendship 7 splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean about 40 miles away from where it was supposed to land. But all s well that ends well, and John Glenn went down in history as an American hero. 

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