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2012 Event - A video of SpaceX's latest test of the company's Grasshopper rocket with vertical takeoff and vertical landing, is released; the rocket rose 131 feet, hovered and landed safely on the landing pad December 17, 2012 2012 Event - The U.N. condemns North Korea for launching a long-range Unha rocket; North Korea claims its purpose is to put its first satellite into space, but critics say the launch is a disguised ballistic missile test 2011 Event - In Kabul, a rocket is fired into the compound of Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan 2010 Event - Five Palestinians are wounded when Israel conducts four air raids in the Gaza Strip, a response to a fourth rocket attack in southern Israel from Gaza 2004 Death - William H. Pickering, rocket scientist, manager of the Mariner missions to Venus and Mars in the 1960s, dies at 93 1996 Death - Arthur Rudolph, rocket Engineer, dies at 89 1994 Death - Robert Hutton, Winne, U.S. actor (Rocket), dies at 74 1992 Event - India launches its Agni rocket 1991 Event - Raghib "Rocket" Ismael signs with Toronto Argonauts for $26.2 million 1989 Event - 1st U.S. private commercial rocket makes suborbital test flight (NM) 1986 Event - Titan rocket explodes seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg AFB 1984 Event - Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island 1983 Event - India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket 1982 Event - Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, New Mexico 1982 Event - Conestoga 1, 1st private commercial rocket, makes suborbital flight 1982 Event - Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by U.S. Delta rocket 1982 Event - British torpedo boat Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket 1981 Event - Satellites China 10 and 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket 1980 Event - China launch 1st intercontinental rocket 1980 Event - Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50 1979 Event - Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph 1977 Death - Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (V1/V2), dies at 65 of smoking 1976 Event - Hermes rocket launched by European Space Agency 1972 Event - NHL star Maurice "Rocket" Richard signs with WHL Quebec Nordiques 1969 Event - 1st launching of heavy N-1 rocket at Baikonur Kazachstan (explodes) 1966 Event - Saturn I rocket launched at Cape Kennedy 1965 Event - At 10:58 am PST burn up a nuclear rocket in Nevada 1963 Event - 1st Dutch rocket launched/reaches height of 10 km 1963 Event - Gordie Howe ties Rocket Richard's lifetime 544 goal record 1962 Event - Launch of Alouette 1, 1st Canadian satellite (on U.S. Delta rocket) 1961 Event - Mercury/Atlas rocket lifted off with an electronic mannequin 1961 Event - American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight 1961 Event - 1st all-solid-propellant rocket put in orbit, Wallops Island, Va 1961 Event - Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus 1960 Event - Rocket propelled USAAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH 1958 Event - USAF selects Thor over Jupiter rocket for mass production as ICBM's 1958 Event - Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mexico 1957 Event - 1st U.S. attempt to launch a satellite fails - Vanguard rocket blows up 1957 Event - Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Mont, became 1st NHLer to score 500 goals 1957 Event - 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada 1956 Death - Milburn Apt, in X-2 rocket plane reaches 3370 kph, but, dies in crash 1956 Event - Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph 1955 Event - Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight 1955 Event - Maurice "Rocket" Richard suspended, sparks 7 hour riot in Montreal 1954 Event - Lieutenant Colonel John Strapp travels 632 MPH in a rocket sled 1954 Event - Arthur Murray flies X-1A rocket plane to record 27,000 m 1954 Event - 1st rocket attains 150 mi (241 km) altitude, White Sands, NM 1953 Event - Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane 1953 Birthday - Rik "The Rocket" Emmett, Toronto, rock vocalist, Triumph 1951 Event - U.S. viking rocket reaches 210 km height, record 1950 Event - V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; 1st launch from Cape Canaveral 1949 Event - Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral 1949 Event - 1st firing of a U.S. Viking rocket; reached 80 km 1949 Event - WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record) 1949 Event - V-2/WAC-Corporal 1st rocket to outer space, White Sands, NM, 400 km 1948 Event - U.S. rocket flies record 4800 KPH to 126k height 1946 Event - U.S. V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM 1946 Event - Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight 1946 Event - German rocket engineers begin work in U.S.S.R. 1946 Event - 1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, New Mexico 1946 Event - 1st U.S. launch of captured V-2 rocket, White Sands, NM; 8 km alt 1946 Event - 1st U.S. rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up) 1945 Event - German rocket engineers begin work in U.S. 1945 Death - Robert H Goddard, U.S., rocket pioneer, dies at 62 1945 Death - Robert Goddard, Rocket pioneer, dies 1945 Event - Maurice "Rocket" Richard becomes the 1st NHLer to score 50 goals 1944 Event - Harry Crosby takes 1st rocket airplane, MX-324, for maiden flight 1944 Event - 1st V-1 rocket assault on London 1943 Event - RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde 1942 Event - Launch of 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km) 1942 Event - 1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport, Connecticut 1942 Event - 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km 1939 Event - Heinkel He-178 makes 1st manned flight with rocket/jet propulsion 1939 Event - Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800-kph rocket plane to Hitler 1939 Event - Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemunde 1939 Event - Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants 1938 Event - Clifford Odets' "Rocket to the Moon," premieres in New York City 1936 Birthday - Henri "Rocket" Richard, NHL center, Montreal Canadiens 1936 Event - 1st rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake, New York 1935 Event - Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket 1933 Event - 1st Soviet liquid fuel rocket attains altitude of 261' (80m) 1933 Event - Soviet Union test GIRD-R1 rocket ("Object 09") 1932 Event - Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program 1931 Event - 1st use of a rocket to deliver mail, Austria 1929 Event - 1st manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel) 1928 Event - Friedrich Schmiedl attempted rocket mail in Austria (unsuccessful) 1928 Event - Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car 1926 Event - 2nd flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard 1926 Event - Robert Goddard launches 1st liquid fuel rocket, goes 184' (56 meters) 1921 Birthday - Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Montreal Canadien, MVP-1947 1920 Birthday - Robert Hutton, Kingston, New York, actor, Torture Garden, Rocket 1914 Event - 1st patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted, Dr. Robert Goddard 1912 Birthday - Werner von Braun, born in Wirsitz, Germany, rocket expert, I Aim at the Stars 1906 Birthday - Arthur Rudolph, rocket engineer 1892 Birthday - Emory Parnell, St. Paul Minnesota, actress, Rocket Man, County Fair 1882 Birthday - Robert Hutchings Goddard, Worcester Massachusetts, rocket pioneer 1870 Event - J D Schneiter patents rocket mail in France, (not done) 1857 Birthday - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, pioneer in rocket and space research 1772 Birthday - William Congreve, English officer, design fire rocket |
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