8 July

Events which occurred on the 8th of July.

Events[]

1921: NASA Astronaut and United States Senator John Glenn is born.
1986: Retired United States Navy Admiral Hyman Rickover dies.
1994: NASA's space shuttle Columbia launches for mission STS-65.
1999: NASA Astronaut Pete Conrad dies.
2011: Atlantis launches on her final mission, STS-135.
2165: The USS Vol'Rala recovers captives from a Ware repair station. The Columbia-class USS Buran and USS Shenlong enter service. USS Apollo & USS Soyuz are projected to launch in three months, USS Charybdis & USS Ares in spring 2166, and USS Phoenix & USS Valiant within two years. (ENT - Rise of the Federation novel: Live by the Code)

1972: TOS comic: "To Swiftly Go..." continues with the 8th installment, in Valiant and TV21 #41.
1980: The 10th installment of TOS comic: "Aberration on Abaris" is published in daily newspapers by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate.
1981: The 74th installment of TOS comic: "The Savage Within" is published.
1982: The 130th installment of TOS comic: "The Wristwatch Plantation" is published.
1983: The 5th installment of TOS comic: "Terminally Yours" is published.
2009: TOS - Crew comic: "The Ends of Eternity" is released by IDW Publishing.
2015: TOS - The Spectrum War comic: "Issue 1" is published.