Spicy Space Lady remains unfound

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Today is perhaps a bit of a special day for space travel. Let us guide you through some of the news facts that took place in the past decades of aeronautics.  

On 12 April 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space.

On 13 April 1970, disaster strikes 200,000 miles from the earth when oxygen tank number 2 blows up on Apollo 13, the third manned lunar landing mission. Astronauts James A. Lovell, John L. Swigert, and Fred W. Haise had left two days before to the moon but were forced to turn their attention to simply making it home alive.

On 12 April 1981, The space shuttle Columbia is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, becoming the first reusable manned spacecraft to travel into space. Piloted by astronauts Robert L. Crippen and John W. Young, the Columbia undertook a 54-hour space flight before successfully touching down at Edwards Air Force Base in California on April 14.

Now. What were they looking for? A car? Or perhaps today’s Friday Lady?

(Words editor, picture Marcus Gloger)

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