On July 11, 1979, the abandoned U.S. space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth as it burned up in the ...

On July 10, 1962, the communications satellite Telstar 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to beam live ...

On October 16, 1975, NASA launched the first operational GOES satellite! ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com GOES A was the first in a series of weather satellites that NASA ...

On November 7, 1996, NASA launched its Mars Global Surveyor mission. This was the first mission NASA sent to Mars in almost 20 years. The Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft was an orbiter. It ...

OTD In Space - May 22: SpaceX Launches 1st Private Cargo Mission To The International Space Station. Space. Thu, May 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM UTC.

Attached to the outside of the International Space Station, circling the Earth 16 times every day, ... (OTD) on the OrbView-1 satellite, which circled Earth from 1995 to 2000.