By Emma McCartney
From this …….
To this!!!!!!!!!!!!
1926: Dr. Robert H. Goddard launches the first liquid fuelled rocket 1959: U.S. Air Force photo of Big Joe launch vehicle after launching at Cape Canaveral. 1960: Atlas launch from Cape Canaveral carrying Mercury Program spacecraft 1961: The Mercury-Redstone spacecraft, on the pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida. 1961: Launch of Little Joe 2 from Wallops Island carrying Mercury spacecraft test article. 1963: ASSET lifting body; first phase of US Air Force Spacecraft Technology and Advanced Re-entry Tests. 1963: Soviet Soyuz launch vehicle. 1965: First night time launching of a Saturn I launch vehicle 65, from Complex 37, Cape Kennedy, Florida. 1965: Lift-off of Gemini-Titan 3 mission from Cape Canaveral. 1969: Lift-off of Saturn V launch vehicle carrying Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. 1985: First launch of the shuttle orbiter Atlantis.
1988: The Russian Shuttle Buran -Energiya on the launch pad. 1989: First flight of Pegasus air-launched booster vehicle 1990: Delta launch from Pad A, Complex 17, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. 1992: Titan III rocket carrying Mars Observer satellite launches from Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. 1994: First launch of Taurus Launch vehicle. 1996: Atlantis landing at Edwards AFB, California.
1996: Artist's concept of Lockheed Martin X-33 Reusable Launch Vehicle on launch pad. 1996: Computer generated image of DC-XA vertical launch, vertical landing reusable launch vehicle.