Pick any date since Sputnik. See what was happening in space — what flew, who was up there, and where the planets were.
You arrive
January 19, 2006
A Home in Orbit
From the day Expedition 1 docked, there has always been someone living off the planet — a lamp left on in the dark, 400 km up.
Deep-space distance is approximate — a constant-cruise estimate anchored to NASA Voyager tracking data.
January 19, 2006
1,904
days of continuous human presence in space
every second since November 2, 2000
Crew records for this date aren't in our archive yet.
Waning Gibbous
78% lit