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April 5, 1947: The second prototype
of the Hughes XF-11 twin-boom
reconnaissance aircraft made its first
complete flight (takeoff and landing),
piloted by Howard Hughes. During
the first XF-11 flight in 1946, Howard
Hughes crashed the aircraft in Beverly
Hills, Calif. The production aircraft had
been canceled in May 1945, but the
second prototype was completed and
successfully flown in 1947.

April 8, 1959: NASA presented its first
seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter,
Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus
Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard
and Donald Slayton. Known as
the Mercury Seven, the Original
Seven and Astronaut Group 1, they
April 4, 1983: The Space Shuttle Challenger were selected to fly spacecraft for
roared into orbit on its maiden voyage, STS-6, with Project Mercury. All of the Mercury
astronauts Paul J. Weitz, Koral J. Bobko, Donald Seven eventually flew in space.
H. Peterson and Dr. Story Musgrave on board. They piloted the six spaceflights of
Challenger was the second orbiter in the program, the Mercury program that had an
and completed nine missions. Historical milestones astronaut on board from May 1961
for Challenger included the first spacewalk during to May 1963, and members of the
a shuttle mission (STS-6), the first U.S. women Oct. 5, 1947: The No. 1 Bell X-1 (s/n 46-062) group flew on all of the NASA human
in space (Sally Ride on STS-7), the first African and its JTB-29A mother ship arrived at Muroc April 9, 1967: The first test flight of Boeing’s new spaceflight programs of the 20th
American in space (Guion Bluford on STS-8), the Army Airfield (now Edwards AFB, Calif.) from the 737 took place as the jetliner took off from Boeing century—Mercury, Gemini, Apollo,
first shuttle night launch and night landing (STS- Bell Facility in New York, following modifications Field in Seattle on a 21/2-hour trip to Paine Field in and the Space Shuttle.
8), the first untethered space walk (STS-41B), the in preparation for turning the aircraft over to the Everett, Wash.
first female spacewalk (Kathryn Sullivan, STS- National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics
41G), and carried the first Canadian and Dutch (NACA) for further flight testing. This was the
astronauts. In all, Challenger landed at Edwards first time that the No. 1 aircraft had been at For more On This Date,
Air Force Base, Calif., seven times. Challenger was Muroc. This is an undated Edwards History visit www.aereotechnews.com
destroyed on takeoff, Jan. 28, 1986. Office photograph.

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