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January
22:
NASA launches space shuttle Discovery on mission STS-42.
January 26: The Washington Redskins football team
defeats
the Buffalo
Bills by a score of 37-24 in Super Bowl XXVI.
January 30: Space shuttle Discovery lands after
completing
mission STS-42.
February 17: Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is
sentenced to
life in
prison.
March 17: Russia launches Soyuz TM-14 with
crew
Aleksandr
Viktorenko, Aleksandr Kaleri, and Klaus-Deitrich Flade. This is
the first
manned Soyuz launch after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
March 24: NASA launches space shuttle Atlantis on
mission
STS-45.
March 25: Soyuz spacecraft TM-13 returns to Earth
with
crew, Aleksandr
Volkov, Sergey Krikalev, and Klaus-Deitrich Flade. Krikalev has
been in
space for 10 months spanning the collapse of the Soviet Union. He
left
Earth as a citizen of the Soviet Union and returned to Earth as a
citizen of
Russia.
April 2: Space shuttle Atlantis returns to Earth
after the
completion of
mission STS-45.
May 1: Oakland Athletics baseball player Ricky
Henderson
steals his
1000th base.
May 7: NASA launches space shuttle Endeavour on
mission
STS-49.
This is the maiden voyage for Endeavour.
May 25: The Doug Sanders Celebrity
Pro-Am Golf Tournament was held in Houston, Texas. Neil Armstrong
and Alan Shepard participated. For my account of this tournament
follow the Doug Sanders
link.
May 16: Space shuttle Endeavour
lands after the completion
of mission
STS-49.
May 22: Johnny Carson hosts the "Tonight Show" for
the
last
time. His career on that show spanned 30 years.
June 25: NASA launches space shuttle Columbia on mission
STS-50.
October 25:
The Spaceweek 1992 National Banquet was held in Houston, Texas. I
had dinner with Bruce McCandless. For my account of this event
follow the Spaceweek 92
link.
July 27: Russia launches Soyuz TM-15 with a crew of
Anatoli Solovyov,
Sergey Avdeyev, and Michel Tognini.
July 9: Space shuttle Columbia returns to Earth
after the
completion of
mission STS-50.
July 31: NASA launches space shuttle Atlantis on
mission
STS-46.
August 8: Space shuttle Atlantis returns to Earth
after
the completion
of mission STS-46.
August 10: Soyuz spacecraft TM-14 returns to Earth
with
crew Aleksandr
Viktorenko, Aleksandr Kaleri, and Michel Tognini.
August 24: Hurricane
Andrew hits
South Florida.
September
12: NASA launches space shuttle Endeavour
on
mission
STS-47. Mae Jemison becomes the first African-American
woman in
space.
September 20: Space shuttle Endeavour returns to
Earth
after the
completion of mission STS-47.
October 22: NASA launches space
shuttle Columbia on
mission STS-52.
October 24: Mary and I are married.
November 1: Space shuttle Columbia returns to Earth
after
the completion
of mission STS-52.
November 3: Bill Clinton defeats incumbent George H.
W.
Bush and Ross
Perot in the US presidential election.
November 25: The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly
votes to
split the
nation into two nations, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. This
will occur
on January 1, 1993.
December 2: NASA launches space shuttle Discovery on
mission STS-53.
December
9:
Space shuttle Discovery lands at Edwards Air Force Base after the
completion of
mission STS-53.
December 9: US Marines under order of George H. W.
Bush land in
Somalia.
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