4 May
1959: On 4 May 1959, ESA astronaut Maurizio Cheli was born. He was a former Lieutenant Colonel in the Italian Air Force, was selected in 1992 by ESA as an ...
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1961: On 5 May 1961, America's first astronaut in space, Alan B. Shepard Jr., made a 15-minute sub-orbital flight that reached an altitude of just under 200 kilometres. During the flight, Shepard experienced about five minutes of 'weightlessness'.
He was launched in the Freedom 7 Mercury capsule from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, by a Redstone 3 rocket. As he re-entered the Earth's atmosphere, the experienced test pilot was subjected to 11 times the force of gravity.
Although Shepard became the first American in space, the world's first human in space was Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut, launched into orbit less than one month earlier in Vostok 1, on 12 April 1961. Later, John Glenn would go on to become the first US astronaut in orbit.
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3 May
2003: On 3 May 2003, the Mars Express spacecraft was given the final green light for launch following completion of a successful flight-readiness review.ESA had earlier announced that the Mars ...
2 May
1996: On 2 May 1996, five months after its launch, the first SOHO results were presented by a team of scientists at ESA Headquarters in Paris.These first results showed, for ...
1 May
1996: On 1 May 1996, a chance encounter between Ulysses, the joint ESA/NASA spacecraft, and a comet's tail led scientists to conclude that comet tails extend much further than anyone ...
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