31 January 1958
Explorer I First American Satellite
The United States launches Explorer I, its first successful artificial satellite.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Cape Canaveral in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
The United States launches Explorer I, its first successful artificial satellite.
NASA launches Pioneer 10 on the first mission intended to make close observations of Jupiter.
NASA launches Pioneer 11 toward Jupiter on a trajectory later extended to Saturn.
Voyager 2 launches first, beginning the twin-spacecraft exploration of the outer planets.
Voyager 1 launches from Cape Canaveral to begin its outer-planet mission.
Death of Christa McAuliffe, on Challenger when it explodes 74 seconds after lift-off
Magellan launches to map Venus with synthetic aperture radar.
Smoot leads the differential microwave radiometer team on the launched COBE mission
Mather leads COBE science as NASA launches the satellite to measure Big Bang relic radiation
Bennett leads the WMAP mission launched to measure the early universe from microwave background patterns
Juno launches to investigate Jupiter's origin, interior, atmosphere and magnetosphere.
NASA launches the Perseverance rover mission to Mars.
Provenance
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