August 26th - on this day in 1998, the first The Boeing Company Delta III 8930 rocket launched from Space Launch Complex 17A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Depsite being an inaugural flight, the rocket carried a customer payload, the Galaxy 10 communications satellite. Within the first minute of flight, a slow oscillating roll developed, which the rocket's control system tried to correct. However, it instead contributed to the situation and in the end expended the hydraulic flui

January 17th - on this day in 1997, a McDonnell Douglas-built Delta II 7925 exploded 13 seconds after liftoff from Space Launch Complex 17A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. One of the nine GEM 40 solid rocket boosters assisting the first stage upon ascent had suffered a catastrophic failure. The mission was to carry the first Block IIR GPS satellite, GPS IIR-1, to Medium Earth Orbit. | NASASpaceflight.com