1986
Campaign Timeline
- Assembly of Mars Probe One at Goddard Moonbase is underway. This is to take advantage of Luna’s lower gravity. It will be moved into orbit once its building reaches a sufficiently developed stage.
- The NASA space shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after launch, killing all seven crewmembers aboard. It is the first tragedy in the space shuttle program the worst disaster in the history of NASA to that date.
- Goddard Moonbase becomes self-sufficient once its agricultural and hydroponics sections begin operations.
- Construction begins on a second and more sophisticated international space station in Terran orbit. Space Station Freedom is intended to be self-sufficient and a launching point for manned missions to other parts of the Sol System.
- Both NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) begin surveying the Sol System’s inner asteroid belt using a fleet of automated probes with an eye towards future mining operations.
- Mars Probe One, built by Boeing Aerospace under contract to NASA, successfully launches from lunar orbit.
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References
| 1985 | 20th century 1980s |
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