2014 Event Ford Motor Company begins using aluminum instead of steel in the body of its most popular truck, the F-150; the change has cost the company time and money in conversion of production lines but will make the vehicle more fuel efficient 2014 Event Race car driver Tony Stewart hits fellow driver Kevin Ward, Jr. with a vehicle on a sprint car track; Ward was walking on the track and did not survive the incident 2014 Event Chinese auto manufacturer FAW Group begins taking orders for its luxury Red Flag L5 custom-made auto; the vehicle is priced similarly to a Ferrari at approximately $803,000 2014 Event Indian automaker Mahindra & Mahindra will begin selling the e2o, an electric car, in Bhutan for about $11,300; vehicle exhaust is causing air pollution problems in Bhutan that threaten the country's tourist-dependent economy 2014 Event The cryogenic engine built India's Space Research Organisation engineers powers the launch of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-D5), which successfully placed a 1,982-kg GSAT-14 communications satellite into orbit in 17 minutes 2013 Event The launch of the 'Yu Tu', China's first lunar vehicle, is scheduled to take place at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center before December 10, 2013 2011 Event The Japanese launch the H-II Transfer Vehicle HTV-2 Resupply Craft, in a mission to deliver cargo to the International Space Station 2010 Event Two U.S. embassy cars are set on fire in Kabul after a U.S. vehicle collides with a civilian vehicle 2001 Event Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft becomes first vehicle to land on an asteroid (433 Eros) 1990 Event 13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga Tennessee I-75, due to fog 1988 Event NASA launches space vehicle S-214 1988 Event NASA launches space vehicle S-213 1988 Event NASA launches space vehicle S-211 1988 Event NASA launches space vehicle S-206 1987 Event NASA launches space vehicle S-209 1986 Event NASA launches space vehicle S-199 1985 Event STS-51-L vehicle moves to Launch Pad 39B 1985 Event NASA launches space vehicle S-207 1985 Event STS-61-C vehicle moves to launch pad 1985 Event STS-61-B vehicle moves to launch pad 1985 Event Challenger vehicle moves to launch pad for STS-61A mission 1985 Event STS-51-I vehicle moves to launch pad 1985 Event NASA launches space vehicle S-209 1985 Event STS-51-F vehicle moves to launch pad 1985 Event STS-51-G vehicle moves to launch pad 1985 Event STS-51-D vehicle moves to launch pad 1985 Event STS-51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission cancelled 1985 Event STS-51-E vehicle moves to launch pad 1984 Event STS-51-A launch vehicle moves to launch pad 1984 Event NASA launches space vehicle S-208 1984 Event STS-41-G launch vehicle moves to launch pad 1984 Event STS-41-D vehicle again moves out to launch pad 1984 Event STS-41-D vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB for remanifest of payloads 1984 Event STS-41-D vehicle moves to launch pad 1984 Event STS-41-C vehicle moves to launch pad 1984 Event STS-41-B vehicle moves to launch pad 1983 Event STS-9 vehicle again moves to launch pad 1983 Event STS-9 vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB due to SRB nozzle problem 1983 Event STS-9 vehicle moves to launch pad 1983 Event STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad 1983 Event NASA launches space vehicle S-205 1982 Event STS-6 vehicle moves to launch pad 1982 Event STS-5 vehicle moves to launch pad 1982 Event STS-4 vehicle moves to launch pad 1982 Event Assembled STS-3 vehicle moves from Vandenberg AFB to launch pad 1981 Event Space Shuttle vehicle moves to Launch Complex 39A for STS-2 mission 1981 Event NASA launches space vehicle S-192 1980 Event Columbia mated to SRBs and external tank at Vehicle Assembly Building 1979 Event NASA launches space vehicle S-203 1979 Event NASA launches space vehicle S-198 1979 Event NASA launches space vehicle S-202 1978 Event NASA launches space vehicle S-201 1977 Event NASA launches space vehicle S-200 1976 Event NASA launches space vehicle S-197 1976 Event NASA launches space vehicle S-179 1975 Event NASA launches space vehicle S-196, it failed 1975 Event NASA launches space vehicle S-195 1975 Event Worst motor vehicle disaster in U.K.; bus full of elderly women plunges Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38 1970 Event Russia lands Lunokhod 1 unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon 1964 Event Don Campbell sets record for turbine vehicle, 690.91 kph (429.31 mph) 1964 Event Centaur 3 launch vehicle fails to make Earth orbit 1961 Event 1st Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test 1961 Event 1st Saturn launch vehicle made a flight test 1960 Event 1st launch of Delta satellite launching vehicle; it failed 1957 Event 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle, TV-3 1941 Event 1,000,000th vehicle traverses the New York Midtown Tunnel 1940 Event Willys unveiled its General Purpose vehicle - Jeep 1893 Event Frank Duryea drives 1st U.S. made gas propelled vehicle (car)
