Week on space 18-24 MAY

Apollo 10

 Monday 18

Moon at apogee

1969: Apollo 10 launched
1984: Viking 1 lander given to National Air & Space Museum
1996: First test flight of DC-XA rocket
2009: 23rd and final spacewalk to service the Hubble Space Telescope

 Tuesday 19

1965: Apollo A-003 launched
1996: STS-77 Endeavour launched
2000: STS-101 Atlantis launched

 Wednesday 20

Uranus 4° north of Moon

1978: Pioneer-Venus 1 launched
1995: Spektr module launched to Mir space station

 Thursday 21

2010: IKAROS spacecraft launched; first successful solar-sail propulsion

 Friday 22

Mercury 0.9° south of Venus
New Moon 1:39 PM ET

1969: Apollo 10 lunar module descends to within 50,000 feet of the lunar surface
2012: Dragon C2+ spacecraft launched, first commercial mission to dock with ISS

 Saturday 23

Venus 4° north of Moon

1984: NASA selects 10th astronaut group

 Sunday 24

Mercury 3° north of Moon
Vesta 0.6° south of Moon

1962: Aurora 7 launched

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Abhinav P Pradeep, wayanad, Kerala, India

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