Week on space 4-10 MAY

Alan Shepard

 Monday 4

Mercury in superior conjunction

1967: Lunar Orbiter IV launched
1989: STS-30 Atlantis launched, releases Magellan spacecraft
2002: Aqua satellite launched

 Tuesday 5

Moon at perigee
Eta Aquarid meteor shower

1961: Freedom 7 suborbital flight; Alan Shepard is first American in space

 Wednesday 6

Eta Aquarid meteor shower

1968: Neil Armstrong ejects safely from Lunar Landing Research Vehicle before it crashes
1975: NASA announces that Canada will build the Shuttle robot arm

 Thursday 7

Full Moon 6:45 AM ET

1992: STS-49 Endeavour launched

 Friday 8

2003:GSLV D2 launched by ISRO

 Saturday 9

2003: Hayabusa launched, first mission to retrieve a sample from an asteroid

 Sunday 10

Mother's Day

1900: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin born
1967: M2-F2 lifting body crash-lands; footage later becomes opening scene of “The Six Million Dollar Man”

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