This section will include dates of historic spaceflights/events as well as currently planned social or celebratory events. It will be arranged by Month/Day/Year so it’s easier to spot upcoming social events associated with historical launches and events each month. Social events will be added when known and will be flagged by an asterisk *.
Historical and Upcoming Events
Apr 2026
4/12/81 – STS-1 First Space Shuttle-Crippen & Young4/16/72 – Apollo 16-Young, Mattingly, Duke
May 2026
5/5/61 – MR-3 Alan Shepard-First American into space5/14/73 – Skylab 1-Last Saturn V-workshop
5/15/63 – MA-9- Gordon Cooper -last Mercury flight
5/18/69 – Apollo 10-Stafford, Young, Cernan
5/23/65 – Gemini 3-Grissom & White
5/24/62 – MA-7 Scott Carpenter
5/25/61 – JFK Speech-Go to the Moon
5/25/73 – Skylab 2-Conrad, Kerwin, Weitz