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On July 21, 1961, NASA astronaut Gus Grissom completed the second successful human spaceflight mission for the United States of America. His suborbital flight in the Liberty Bell 7 capsule lasted 15 minutes and 30 seconds and reached an altitude of 103 nautical miles. Everything went according to plan until just after Grissom splashed down […]

On July 20, 1969, human beings walked on the moon for the very first time Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin exited their lunar lander and planted their moon boots on the lunar surface at about 11 p.m. EDT 0300 GMT on July 21. Armstrong led the way down the ladder. When he

On July 19, 1985, a high school teacher named Christa McAuliffe was selected to become the first American civilian to fly to space. McAuliffe won NASA’s Teacher in Space Project and was selected from more than 11,000 applicants to ride aboard the space shuttle Challenger. Vice President George H. W. Bush made the announcement on

On July 18, 1980, India launched its first satellite into orbit. This made India the seventh nation to launch an indigenously built satellite. The Rohini RS-1 satellite lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at 8 a.m. local time. It was a small, experimental satellite weighing only about 77 lbs. 35 kilograms, and its

The Government of Cabo Verde, in collaboration with SatNav Africa JPO, successfully hosted the Africa Satellite Navigation Conference Pre-Event from 16-17 July 2025 in Parque Tecnológico Arquipélago Digital de Cabo Verde. With the compelling theme Leveraging GNSS Technology for Enhanced Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems in Africa, the hybrid event drew hundreds of participants, including representatives

On July 17, 1962, the American test pilot Bob White broke the world record for the highest altitude flight. He took off from Edwards Air Force Base in a rocket-powered X-15 aircraft and made it to an altitude of 314,750 feet. That’s almost 60 miles At the time, the Air Force considered the edge of

On July 16, 1969, NASA astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins blasted off on their famous mission to land and walk on the moon. Apollo 11 launched from NASA’s historic launchpad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The astronauts lifted off on top of NASA’s gigantic new Saturn V rocket. Four days

ATLAS Space Operations, a leading provider of Ground Station as a Service, has announced the activation of its latest antenna in Rwanda, marking a strategic expansion of its global ground network. This development significantly enhances the ability of the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate-2 COSMIC-2 to deliver critical data to the National

On July 14, 2015, a spacecraft flew by Pluto for the first time! NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft spent 9.5 years making the 3-billion-mile journey to Pluto. When it finally arrived, it took some amazing photos of the dwarf planet’s surface. Most notably, the photos revealed that Pluto has a huge, heart-shaped plain, tall mountains and

On July 13, 1969, the Soviet Union launched its Luna 15 spacecraft on a mission to the moon. Luna 15 was a robotic sample return mission sent to retrieve some lunar soil and bring it back to Earth. It launched just three days before Apollo 11, which brought the first astronauts to the lunar surface.