| Annual Diaries
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Scarborough, UK
2012 Feb 4, UTC
Saturday, day 35 |
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| Events of 1958
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Time (UTC) |
Event |
| 1958 Jan 1 |
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Work begins in the Soviet Union on designing the vehicle which will become the piloted Vostok (3KA) and Voskhod (3KV & 3KD) spacecraft, and the recoverable Zenit (2K) photo-reconnaissance satellite |
| 1958 Jan 4 |
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Sputnik (PS-1) enters the Earth atmosphere as a result of natural decay of the orbit through air drag, and is destroyed by frictional heating |
| 1958 Jan 28 |
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Sergei Korolyov proposes a programme of lunar exploration missions including impact on the Moon and photographing its surface |
| 1958 Apr 14 |
01:50 |
Approximate time - Sputnik 2 enters the Earth atmosphere over the Caribbean Sea as a result of natural decay of the orbit through air drag, and is destroyed by frictional heating |
| 1958 Apr 27 |
09:01 |
Korolyov 'Object-D' satellite launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by Sputnik (R-7) rocket - the attempt fails when the launcher disintegrates 88 seconds into the mission |
| 1958 May 15 |
07:00 |
Sputnik 3 - backup of Korolyov Object-D satellite - launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by Sputnik (R-7) rocket into 216 x 1863 kilometre orbit at 65.2 degrees inclination - an immediate failure of its onboard tape recorder means that data can only be gathered when it is within range of a ground-based radio receiving station |
| 1958 Sep 23 |
07:03 |
E-1-1 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by Vostok rocket on a mission to hit the Moon by way of direct ascent trajectory - its launcher disintegrates after 93 seconds |
| 1958 Oct 11 |
21:42 |
E-1-2 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by Vostok rocket on a mission to hit the Moon by way of direct ascent trajectory - its launcher disintegrates after 42 seconds |
| 1958 Nov 1 |
00:00 |
The Soviet government approves development of the Vostok and Zenit spacecraft |
| 1958 Dec 4 |
17:18 |
E-1-3 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by Vostok rocket on a mission to hit the Moon by way of direct ascent trajectory - its launcher core-stage rocket engine shuts down after 245 seconds |
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