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  1. June 9 1980: Soyuz T-2 and its crew of 2 landed back at Earth. June 10 1929: James McDivitt was born. He flew on Gemini 4 and Apollo 9. 1969: The Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) program was cancelled. 1995: The Spektr module was docked to the Mir space station. 2003: The Mars Spirit rover was launched. It would land on Mars on January 3, 2004. June 11 1928: A German rocket glider was flown by Freidrich Stamer. Booster rockets would launch it from its launch rail and another rocket would keep it in flight after takeoff. 1976: The design for the Soviet space shuttle Buran was selected. 1985: The Vega 1 balloon entered Venus' atmosphere. 1986: Chesley Bonestell died. He was the illustrator of many of Wernher von Braun's space ideas. 2013: Shenzhou 10 and its crew of 3 was launched into orbit on a 15-day flight. It docked to the Tiangong-1 station on June 13, did a redocking exercise on June 23, and landed on June 26. June 12 1963: NASA Administrator James Webb ruled out Mercury MA-10, a second 1-day flight of the Mercury spacecraft. 1967: Venera 4 was launched. It was a Venus atmospheric probe. The descent craft entered the atmosphere on October 18 and sent signals to Earth. 1998: STS-91 and its crew of 7 landed back at Earth. June 13 1944: The first attacks of the German V-1 were used against London. 4 of 11 launched hit the city. 1962: A recoverable meteoroid experiment utilizing the Mercury spacecraft was proposed by the Manned Spacecraft Center. A sheet of aluminum would be extended from the spacecraft for 2 weeks, gather orbital meteoroids, and recover them from inside the capsule. 1970: The Apollo 13 Review Board published the result of their investigation into the Apollo 13 accident. A heating element in the fuel cell liquid oxygen tank had burnt off its insulation resulting in an explosion. 1993: Donald Slayton died. He was chosen in the original Mercury 7 astronauts. He was grounded for medical reasons but was assigned astronaut commander, assigning crews to missions. He later flew on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP).
  2. Have fun with the beds and people staying up till 3 am being really loud
  3. June 8 1937: Bruce McCandless II was born. He was an astronaut from 1966 to 1990. He flew on STS-41-B and STS-31. He flew an MMU on 41-B to do the first untethered spacewalk. 1961: A rocket belt made by Bell Aerosystems was demonstrated publicly for the first time by Harold Graham. 1965: Luna 6 was launched. It was an attempted landing mission but missed the Moon entirely after it accidentally fired all its fuel at one time during a mid-course correction on June 9. 1975: Venera 9 was launched. It was an orbiter/lander mission. After achieving orbit, the lander separated from the orbiter on October 20. A successful landing was achieved on the 22nd. 2007: STS-117 and its crew of 7 launched into orbit on a 14-day mission to the ISS. It delivered two truss segments. 4 spacewalks were conducted. Astronaut Clayton Anderson transferred for a stay on the station and Suni Williams returned to Earth in his place.
  4. June 6 1932: David Scott was born. He flew on Gemini 8, Apollo 9, and Apollo 15. He flew with Neil Armstrong on Gemini 8 to become the first crew to dock in space. He became the 7th man to walk on the Moon on Apollo 15 and the first to drive the lunar rover. 1966: Gemini 9 and its crew of Gene Cernan and Tom Stafford landed back at Earth. 1967: Astronaut Edward Givens Jr. died in a car accident. He was selected in 1966 to be an astronaut but never flew into space. 1971: Soyuz 11 and its crew of 3 launched into orbit on a 24-day mission. It was the first manned mission to a space station, Salyut 1. The flight would be cut short a couple of days before a fatal reentry. 1979: Soyuz 34 was launched into orbit. It was an unmanned mission to Salyut 6 for a return vehicle for the Soyuz 32 crew after Soyuz 33's propulsion system failure. 1985: Soyuz T-13 and its crew of 2 launched into orbit on a mission to Salyut 7. 1999: STS-96 and its crew of 7 landed back at Earth. June 7 1962: Wernher von Braun recommended to the NASA Office of Manned Spaceflight that a lunar orbit rendezvous method be used for Apollo lunar landing missions. 1965: Gemini 4 and its crew of Jim McDivitt and Ed White landed back at Earth. It landed 40 miles away from its target site after a guidance computer failure. 1971: Soyuz 11 docked automatically with Salyut 1. 1973: The Skylab 2 crew conducted an EVA to release a jammed solar panel. 1983: Venera 16 was launched. It was a joint mission with Venera 15. Both entered Venus orbit 4 degrees apart to map the surface. 1988: Soyuz TM-5 and its Soviet/Bulgarian crew of 3 launched into orbit on a mission to Mir. It docked to the station on June 9. 2011: Soyuz TMA-02M and its crew of 3 launched into orbit on a mission to the ISS. It docked to the station on June 9.
  5. June 4 2010: SpaceX's Falcon 9 commerical booster was first launched. June 5 1919: James Fletcher was born. He was the NASA Administrator from 1971-1977 and 1986-1989. 1927: Johannes Winkler formed The Society for Space Travel, or VfR, the first society for space travel. Early European space pioneers like Hermann Oberth and Walter Hohmann would come to join the group. 1966: Gene Cernan attempted an EVA on Gemini 9. The planned test of the MMU was cancelled after Cernan became fatigued, hot, and his visor got fogged over to where he couldn't see. 1980: Soyuz T-2 and its crew of 2 launched into orbit on a 4-day mission. It was a test flight of the new Soyuz-T spacecraft where they docked with Salyut 6. 1991: STS-40 and its crew of 7 launched into orbit on a 9-day mission. It carried the Spacelab module in the payload bay for the duration of the flight for the crew to conduct experiments in. 2002: STS-111 and its crew of 7 launched into orbit on a 14-day mission. The launch was delayed 5 times from May 2. It switched out the Expedition 4/5 crews and delivered the MBS Mobile Base System, exterior equipment racks, and the Leonardo MPLM module. 2004: Ronald Reagan, the US President from 1981-'89, died. He initiated the "Star Wars" program and overwhelmed the Soviet Union with a vast aerospace buildup that helped it collapse.
  6. June 2 1930: Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. was born. He flew on Gemini 5 and 11, Apollo 12, and Skylab 2. He became the third man to step on the Moon on Apollo 12. 1957: The Manhigh I balloon flew to 97,000 feet with Joseph Kittinger aboard. 1978: Yi So-yeon was born. She was the first Korean in space and flew on ISS Expedition 14. 1983: Venera 15 was launched in a joint mission with Venera 16 to map Venus. Both were inserted into a polar orbit just one day apart from another. 1998: STS-91 and its crew of 6 was launched into orbit on a 10-day mission. It was the final Shuttle-Mir mission. It recovered US astronaut Andy Thomas from the station and took Russian space chief Valeri Ryumin to the station for inspection. 2003: Mars Express, the ESA's first Mars spacecraft, was launched. It carried with it the Beagle 2 which failed to land successfully. June 3 1965: Gemini 4 and its crew of Jim McDivitt and Ed White was launched into orbit on a 4-day mission. It was the second manned mission in the Gemini program. The planned stationkeeping exercise was scrapped. 4 and a half hours into the flight, Ed White stepped out of the spacecraft to conduct America's first Extravehicular Activity (EVA). He floated around connected by a tether for 20 minutes with a maneuvering gun. Computer problems caused the capsule to have to come in at a different trajectory when landing. 1966: Gemini 9 and its crew of Gene Cernan and Tom Stafford was launched into orbit on a 3-day mission. They tested 3 different types of rendezvous with the Gemini ATDA. Docking was to be attempted but the ATDA docking shroud had not deployed correctly. Cernan attempted an EVA to fly the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) on the back of the ship. Heat loads, exhaustion, his visor fogging up, and the lack of handholds on the spacecraft led to the EVA almost ending in disaster. 1977: Cosmonaut Aleksandr Lysenko died in an aircraft crash. He was a proposed Buran shuttle cosmonaut. 1980: Soyuz 35 and its crew of 2 landed back at Earth.
  7. June 1 1921: Robert Goddard starts experimenting with liquid rockets under a grant from Clark University. 1928: Cosmonaut Georgiy Dobrovolsky was born. He flew on Soyuz 11 where he was in the first crew to stay in a space station but died while landing. 1937: Theodore von Karman founded the Cal Tech Rocket Research Project, the forerunner of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 1949: The Redstone Arsenal was selected for rocket research. 1959: The contractors for the Dyna-Soar were selected to be Boeing for the spacecraft and Martin Company for the launcher. 1961: The Soviet Moon program was given a go-ahead to start in response to the US's start. A booster for a circumlunar flight was to be designed. 1966: The Gemini 9 Atlas/Augmented Target Docking Adapter (ATDA) was launched. It was the backup for 9's Agena Target Vehicle. Gemini 9 was postponed for 2 days after its planned launch. An anomaly was reported after launch of the target. Only after Gemini 9 rendezvoused with it did it reveal that the payload fairings had failed to deploy all the way. 1970: Soyuz 9 and its crew of 2 was launched into orbit on an 18-day flight. Experiments in a long orbital flight came inconclusive due to slow sun-orientating rotation to keep the cosmonauts from being sick. 1971: The decision was made for the shuttle to be a partially reusable orbiter with external fuel tank.
  8. Oh boy I've got a lot of catching up to do. May 27 1962: Astronaut Scott Carpenter and Walter Williams were awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal. 1969: Development of a lunar roving vehicle for use on Apollo lunar landing missions was authorized. 1999: STS-96 and its crew of 7 was launched into orbit on a 10-day mission. It delivered supplies to the interior and exterior of the ISS. 2009: Soyuz TMA-15 and its crew of 3 launched into orbit on a mission to the ISS. May 28 1959: A quick-release explosive hatch was designed for the Mercury spacecraft. 1971: The Russian Mars 3 was launched. It carried with it a French experiment called Spectrum 1 on its way to Mars orbit. Before the orbital insertion, the lander COSPAR 1971-049F was released and made a soft-landing on Mars. The spacecraft entered an 11-day inclined orbit. 2013: Soyuz TMA-09M and its crew of 3 was launched to the ISS. 2014: Soyuz TMA-13M and its crew of 3 launched to the ISS. May 29 1897: Johannes Winkler was born. He launched the first liquid-fuel rocket from Europe on February 21, 1931. 1961: 30-day centrifuge training was conducted for the Mercury-Atlas flights. 1974: Luna 22 was launched. It was a lunar orbiter for imaging the surface, studying the magnetic field, and studying gamma ray emissions from the surface. 1996: STS-77 and its crew of 6 landed back at Earth. 2000: STS-101 and its crew of 7 landed back at Earth. May 30 1934: Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov was born. He flew on Voskhod 2 and Soyuz-ASTP. He became the first man to do an EVA in space on Voskhod 2 and flew in the first US/USSR mission. He was a good candidate for a circumlunar or landing flight on the Moon before the Soviet Moon program was cancelled. 1966: Surveyor 1 was launched on the first operational Atlas/Centaur booster. It was the first in the Surveyor series which would develop soft-landing techniques on the Moon. It made the first successful US soft-landing on the Moon when it landed on June 2. It took a little over 11,150 clear photos of the Moon's surface. 1971: Mariner 9 was launched. It was the first spacecraft to orbit another planet. It was supposed to be a combined mission with Mariner 8. The failed launch of Mariner 8 prompted 9 to take up both mission objectives. It arrived at Mars on November 14. It mapped the surface of Mars for Mariner 8 but was delayed to a dust storm which had picked up in September. It also measured data about the atmosphere and surface. May 31 1975: The European Space Agency (ESA) was founded. 1998: The Galileo spacecraft did a flyby of the moon Europa. 2008: STS-124 and its crew of 7 launched into orbit on a 14-day mission. It delivered the Japanese Kibo module to the ISS, the main component of the Japanese portion of the station. It docked to the ISS on June 2. Kibo was attached to the station on June 4. The shuttle undocked from the station on the 11th and landed on the 14th.
  9. Anywhere from a 1 day - 1 week delay on the F-1.5. Expect updates on the Cougar 1 soon.
  10. Cool screenshots from my latest game: I'm planning on making a mission report series out of this with the anomalies and what not.
  11. I have a video of a static test that I did back in 2015, but my computer won't let me play it because it's some weird format. I'll figure out something.
  12. I'm still getting parts, I'm deciding whether or not to do an Apollo-style backpack to put the oxygen blower in.
  13. From today to the end of February 2018, I'll be designing, testing, and hopefully launching SBR's first rockets. So far, I hope to: Build and static test the F-1.5 engine Launch the F-1.5 Launch the Hornet 1 rocket with an F-1 engine Start further production on the Cougar 1 rocket
  14. Just about anything manned. I want to go for realism so launches and anything unmanned is autopilot and manned flights like planes and spacecraft I want to use with the joystick.
  15. So I just got it and I know exactly nothing about it. How exactly do I get it to work for KSP?
  16. Thanks! And I probably won't do that, as it would be hard to maintain and it would probably reveal what me or other people looked like. I may post a few pictures though without anyone in it if possible.
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