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January 2002
 
DATE   EVENT
4   Sputnik I reentry (1958)
5   Shuttle Program Announced (1972)
9   First Satellite TV Program (1963)
13-25   Selection of first female astronauts (1978)
   



February 2002
 
DATE   EVENT
1-2   ISS Educators Conference, Houston
5   Alan Shepard - first man to hit golf balls on the moon (1971)
7   First untethered space walk (Bruce McCandless, 1984)
8   Last Skylab mission ends (1974)
15   Galileo's Birthday
19   Mir Launched (1986)
19   National Engineers Week
20   John Glenn, First American to Orbit Earth (1962)
   



March 2002
 
DATE   EVENT
6-8   Satellite 2002, Wash DC
14   Einstein's Birthday
16-18   ITEA Conference, Columbus
21   STS-110 launch (no earlier than)
27-30   NSTA Conference, San Diego
   



April 2002
 
DATE   EVENT
1   STS-110 lands
6-11   NAB, Las Vegas
8-11   Space Foundation, Colorado Springs
9   Selection of Mercury 7 (1959)
12  
  • First Man in space (Yuri Gagarin, 1961)
  • 21st Anniversary of Space Shuttle
  • 15   Astronomy Week
    19   Salyut 1 - First Space Station (1971)
    21-24   NCTM Conference, Las Vegas
    22   Earth day
    24   Anniversary of Hubble Space Telescope (1990)
       



    May 2002
     
    DATE   EVENT
    2   STS-111 launch (Crew Change) Space Day
    5   Alan Shepard - First American in Space (1961)
    21   JFK Challenge to land a man on moon (1961)
    31   ESA formed (1975)
       



    June 2002
     
    DATE   EVENT
    3   First American Spacewalk (Ed White 1965)
    13   NSS Founded (1974)
    16   First woman in space (Valentina Tereshkova 1963)
    18   First American Woman in space (Sally Ride 1983)
       



    July 2002
     
    DATE   EVENT
    11   STS-112
    20   First Man on the Moon (1969)
    22   STS-112 lands
       



    August 2002
     
    DATE   EVENT
    17   National Science Week (Australia)
    22   STS-113
       



    September 2002
     
    DATE   EVENT
    1   STS-113 lands
    10-13   International Space Symposium (Toulouse)
       



    October 2002
     
    DATE   EVENT
    4   Sputnik Luanched (1957)
    4-10   Space Week
    14   First Live TV broadcast from Space (1968)
       



    November 2002
     
    DATE   EVENT
    3   First living creature to orbit earth (Laika the Dog, 1957)
       



    December 2002
     
    DATE   EVENT
    6   Zarya and Unity Nodes Connected to form ISS Core (1998)
    17   99th Anniversary of Flight