         |
Any additions and offers Worldwide will be welcomed and appreciated.
 |
USSR | April 21 | 1949 | Conducted first test launch of "R-1A"/SS-1a/Scunner with separated warhead. |
 |
USA | April 21 | 1949 | Launch of "Bumper" high-altitude rocket ended with accident. |
 |
USSR | April 21 | 1951 | Born Alexander Ivanovich Laveikin - pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR. Made one space mission in 1987. |
 |
USA | April 21 | Conducted first test launch of "Aerobee Hi" high-altitude rocket - modernized version of "Aerobee" rocket. | |
 |
USSR | April 21 | 1961 | Conducted second test launch of ICBM "R-9"/SS-8/Sasin - first successful. |
 |
USSR | April 21 | 1961 | 5th test launch of ICBM "R-16"/SS-7 Mod1/Saddler ended with accident. |
 |
USSR | April 21 | 1962 | Born Sergey Viktorovich Zaletin - cosmonaut of Russia. Made one space mission in 2000. |
 |
USA | April 21 | 1964 | Launch of "Thor-Ablestar" booster with "Transit-VBN-3" navigation satellite ended with accident of the booster. |
 |
USA | April 21 | 1972 | Conducted soft landing on the Moon of Lunar Module of "Apollo-16" spacecraft with the crew of J.Young and C.Duke - fifth expedition to the Moon. |
 |
USSR | April 21 | 1987 | Launched "Progress-29" cargo vehicle for "Mir" space station supply. |
 |
Russia | April 21 | 1999 | Conducted first launch of "Dnepr-1"/SS-18 Mod 3/Satan booster with experimental satellite "UoSat-12" which belongs to Great Britain. |
 |
International | April 21 | 2001 | Conducted docking of Endeavour Space Shuttle to ISS. |
 |
Russia | April 22 | 1907 | Born Ivan Anatolievich Efremov - Russian scientist and science fiction writer. |
 |
Germany | April 22 | 1943 | In Penemende center conducted a 21st test launch of "A-4"/V-2/SS-1/Scunner/ missile. |
 |
April 22 | 1968 | USSR, USA and Great Britain signed an International Agreement on saving astronauts, return of astronauts and objects, launched to the Space. | |
| USA | April 22 | 1971 | Launched OPS 7899 the spy satellite. | |
 |
USSR | April 22 | 1984 | Launched Gorizont-9 the communication satellite. |
 |
USSR | April 22 | 1987 | Launched Cosmos-1837 the optical spy satellite. |
 |
Germany | April 22 | 2002 | Tubsat-N the German research satellite burned in solid layers of Earth's atmosphere. |
 |
USA | April 23 | 1958 | First launch of "Thor-Able" booster to test thermo shield of head part of ICBM "Atlas" ended with accident of the booster. |
 |
USA | April 23 | 1962 | Conducted launch of "Ranger-4" probe under the program of rough landing to the Moon. The mission failed due to the malfunction of electronics. |
 |
USSR | April 23 | 1965 | Conducted launch of third "Molniya-1" communication satellite of first generation - first successful launch of that type of satellites. |
 |
USSR | April 23 | 1967 | Conducted first launch of new manned spacecraft - "Soyuz-1" with the crew of V.M. Komarov. Cosmonaut perished during re-entry to the Earth. |
 |
USSR | April 23 | 1968 | Sixth launch of "Zond" space vehicle of "L-1" complex ended with accident of "Proton-K"/SL-12 booster. |
 |
USSR | April 23 | 1971 | Launched "Soyuz-10" spacecraft with the crew of V.A. Shatalov, A.S. Eleseev and N.N. Rukavishnikov under the program of First Main Mission to "Salyut-1" space station. Program cancelled because of technical reasons. |
|
|
USSR | April 23 | 1986 | Launched "Progress-26" cargo vehicle for "Mir" space station supply. |
 |
Russia | April 23 | 1996 | Conducted launch of "Priroda" module for "Mir" space station further development. |
 |
USA | April 23 | 2002 | Conducted the next test flight of Global Hawk the robot plane developed by Northrop Grumman Corporation. |
 |
USSR | April 24 | 1927 | In Moscow opened the First World exhibition of models of Interplanetary vehicles, mechanisms, instruments and historical materials. |
 |
USSR | April 24 | 1961 | Approved a Decision of Central Committee of Communist Party and Soviet of Ministers of the USSR to put on duty BM "R-14"/SS-5/Skean. |
 |
USSR | April 24 | 1962 | Approved a Decision of Central Committee of Communist Party and Soviet of Ministers of the USSR about development of "D-5" complex with ballistic missile "R-27/RSM-25/SS-N-6 Mod 1/Sawfly" for submarines. |
 |
USSR | April 24 | 1962 | Approved a Decision of Central Committee of Communist Party and Soviet of Ministers of the USSR about development of ICBM "Proton"/UR-500/SL-9. |
 |
USSR | April 24 | 1967 | During landing of "Soyuz-1" spacecraft and due to the failure of parachute system cosmonaut V.M. Komarov perished. |
 |
China | April 24 | 1970 | Second launch of "CZ-1" booster delivered to the orbit first national experimental satellite - "DHF-1". China became fifth country independently launched their own satellite. |
 |
USSR | April 24 | 1987 | 9th launch of three "Uragan" satellites under the program of global navigation system GLONASS ended with accident of upper stage of "Proton-K" /SL-12. |
 |
USA | April 24 | 1990 | Conducted 10th launch of STS Space Shuttle "Discovery", mission STS-31. During the mission launched "Hubble" space telescope. |
 |
USSR | April 24 | 1991 | Launched Meteor-3-04 the weather satellite. |
| USA | April 24 | 1996 | Launched MSX the technological satellite. | |
|
|
Russia | April 24 | 1996 | Launched Cosmos-2332 satellite for calibration of land radars. |
 |
USA | April 24 | 1998 | Launched 4 communication satellites of Globalstar type. |
 |
USA | April 24 | 2002 | Conducted successful start of QRLV-2 missile along the suborbital trajectory. |
 |
USA | April 25 | 1957 | Third test launch of "Navaho" inter continental cruise missile ended with accident. |
|
|
USSR | April 25 | 1961 | Third test launch of ICBM "R-9"/SS-8/Sasin ended with accident. |
 |
USA | April 25 | 1961 | Third test flight of unmanned "Mercury" spacecraft ended with destruction of "Atlas-D" booster. |
 |
USA | April 25 | 1962 | Conducted second test launch of "Saturn-1" booster to a ballistic trajectory under "Apollo" program. |
 |
USSR | April 25 | 1970 | From Plesetsk space range conducted launch of "Cosmos-3M" booster with 8 satellites for second low orbit communication system - "Strela-1M". |
 |
USSR | April 25 | 1972 | 54th launch of space vehicle "DS-P1-Y" for preliminary adjustment of radars ended with accident of "Cosmos-2M"/SL-7 booster. |
 |
USSR | April 25 | 1973 | 8th launch of naval spy satellite with nuclear power station onboard ended with accident of "Tsiklon-2"/SL-11 booster. |
 |
USSR | April 25 | 1981 | Conducted launch of "Cosmos-1267" space vehicle - second unmanned TKS spacecraft, which docked with "Salyut-6" space station. |
 |
Russia | April 25 | 2000 | Launched "Progress-M1-2" cargo vehicle for "Mir" space station supply. |
 |
Russia | April 25 | 2002 | Soyuz TM-34 spacecraft manned by Yu.Gidzenko, Vittori Roberto, Shuttleworth Mark Richard was launched. |
 |
USSR | April 26 | 1936 | Born Vladimir Leont'evich Ivanov - Commander-in-chief of Military Space Forces in 1989-1997. |
 |
USSR | April 26 | 1962 | Launched "Cosmos-4" - second spy satellite of first generation of "Zenith-2" type. First successful flight. |
 |
USA | April 26 | 1962 | Launch of "Scout" booster with "GRAB-4B/Solrad-4B" military radar spy satellite ended with accident. |
 |
USA | April 26 | 1962 | Launched "Delta" booster with "Ariel 1" British satellite for ionosphere and solar radiation researches. First launch of American booster with non-American satellite. |
|
|
USA | April 26 | 1963 | Launch of "Scout" booster with "P35-4" military meteorological satellite ended with accident. |
 |
USA | April 26 | 1963 | 8th launch of KH-5 (Keyhole) series "Corona" spy satellite ended with accident of "Thor-Agena D" booster. |
 |
USSR | April 26 | 1964 | 8th test launch of ICBM "R-36"/SS-9 Mod 1/Scarp ended with accident. |
 |
Italy | April 26 | 1967 | Conducted first launch of "Scout" booster from Italian floating platform San Marco. Delivered to the orbit Italian satellite "San Marco-2" for atmospheric researches. |
 |
USA | April 26 | 1967 | 5th launch of third generation spy satellite KH-8 (Keyhole)/"Gambit" ended with accident of "Titan-3B" booster. |
 |
USSR | April 26 | 1975 | First military unite of ICBM "UR-100H"/SS-19 Mod 1/Stiletto was put on duty near Pervomaysk city. |
 |
USSR | April 26 | 1985 | Conducted launch of "Intercosmos-23" satellite from Baikonur Cosmodrome |
 |
USA | April 26 | 1993 | Conducted 14th launch of STS Space Shuttle "Columbia", mission STS-55. Conducted " join Dutch-American program "D-2. |
 |
USA | April 26 | 2002 | Starshine-2 the American satellite burned in solid layers of Earth's atmosphere. |
 |
USSR | April 27 | 1942 | Born Valery Vladimirovich Polyakov - pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR. Made two space missions in 1988 and 1994. During second mission was established an absolute record of human stay in space - 437 days 17 hours 58 minutes 31 seconds. |
 |
USA | April 27 | 1953 | Born Ellen Louise Baker (Shulman) - astronaut of the US. Made three space missions in 1989, 1992 and 1995 years. |
 |
USSR | April 27 | 1958 | Launch of "Sputnik"/SL-2 booster with third satellite of the World - "object D" ended with accident of the booster. |
|
|
USA | April 27 | 1960 | NASA signed contract with Ford Motor Co. branch Aeronutronics about development of "Ranger" vehicles. |
 |
USSR | April 27 | 1966 | Approved a Decision of Soviet of Ministers of USSR "About situation with the plan of operations on creation of the 7K-L1 manned spacecrafts for fly around the Moon". |
|
|
USSR | April 27 | 1980 | Launched "Progress-9" cargo vehicle for "Salyut-6" space station supply. |
 |
Russia | April 27 | 1993 | 16th launch of "Cometa"/"Cosmos-2243" spy satellite ended with accident of "Soyuz-U"/SL-4 booster. |
 |
USA | April 27 | 1999 | Launch of "Athena-2" booster with "Ikonos-1"satellite for high resolution Earth photo filming ended with accident. |
 |
USA | April 27 | 2001 | Launched Orion the geophysical missile. |
 |
International | April 27 | 2002 | Conducted successful docking of Soyuz TM-34 spacecraft to ISS. |
 |
USA | April 28 | 1943 | Born John Oliver Creighton - astronaut of the US. Made three space missions in 1985, 1990 and 1991 years. |
 |
USA | April 28 | 1949 | Born Jerome "Jay" Apt - astronaut of the US. Made four space missions in 1991, 1992, 1994 and 1996 years. |
 |
USSR | April 28 | 1953 | Third test launch of "R-11"/SS-1b/Scud-A ended with accident. |
 |
France | April 28 | 1957 | Born Leopold Eyharts- cosmonaut of France. Made one space mission in 1998. |
 |
USSR | April 28 | 1958 | Conducted fifth test launch of intercontinental cruise missile "Burya". Launch was totally successful. |
 |
USA | April 28 | 1961 | Conducted 8th launch of "Little Joe" booster to a ballistic trajectory with "Mercury" spacecraft for improvement of spacecraft's systems. |
 |
USSR | April 28 | 1962 | First test launch of solid motor ICBM "RT-1" ended with accident. |
 |
USSR | April 28 | 1973 | Approved a Decision of Soviet of Ministers of the USSR about development of Ballistic Missile 15G45/RSD-10/SS-20 MOä1/Saber- complex "Pioneer". |
 |
USA | April 28 | 1991 | Conducted 12th launch of STS Space Shuttle "Discovery", mission STS-39 under military program. |
 |
ESA | April 28 | 1998 | Launched European booster "Ariane-44P" with "Nilesat 101" satellite, which belongs to Egypt. |
 |
International | April 28 | 1999 | Launched Cosmos-3M launch vehicle with Megsat-0 Italian technological satellite and ABRIXAS German astronomical satellite. |
 |
Russia | April 28 | 2001 | Soyuz TM-32 spacecraft manned by T.Musabaev, Yu.Baturin and Dennis Tito was launched. |
 |
USA | April 28 | 2001 | Contact with Pioneer-10 interplanetary probe was got after break in 8 months. |
 |
USSR | April 29 | 1938 | Born Anatoly Ivanovich Kiselev - Director General of Khrunichev State Research Space Center in 1994- 2001. |
 |
USSR | April 29 | 1953 | Born Nikolay Michailovich Budarin - cosmonaut of Russia. Made two space missions in 1995 and 1998 years. |
 |
USA | April 29 | 1958 | 4th launch of "Vanguard" booster ended with accident of third stage of the booster. |
 |
USA | April 29 | 1985 | Conducted 7th launch of STS Space Shuttle "Challenger ", mission STS-51B. During the mission conducted experiments in "Spacelab-3" laboratory. |
 |
Russia | April 29 | 1994 | Approved a Decision of Government of Russia about creation of RKK "Energiya" on the base of NPO "Energiya". |
|
|
Russia | April 29 | 1998 | Launched Cosmos-2350 the communication satellite. |
 |
USA | April 29 | 2002 | Removal of Endeavour Space Shuttle was made to start position. |
 |
Russia | April 30 | 1916 | The Board of Russian-Baltic join stock company has acquired the ground area in Moscow for building a factory (now it's Khrunichev State Space Research Center). |
 |
USA | April 30 | 1945 | Born Michael John Smith - astronaut of the US. Perished during his first space mission onboard STS Space Shuttle "Challenger" in January 28th, 1985. |
 |
USA | April 30 | 1976 | Conducted launch of "NOSS-1" satellite - first naval spy satellite. |
 |
USA | April 30 | 1999 | Launch of "Titan-401B" booster with "USA-143/Milstar-2 military communication satellite ended with accident of "Centaur" upper stage. |
 |
International | April 30 | 2001 | Conducted docking of Soyuz TM-32 spacecraft to ISS. |
 |
USA | April 30 | 2002 | American Aerospace Department published an interim statement about work in the field of creation of Space Shuttle of the second generation. |
[April, 1-10] [April, 11-20]
© 2002-2007 Videocosmos Co.
