Week on space 22-28 JUNE

Royal greenwich observatory

 Monday 22

1675: Royal Greenwich Observatory founded
1973: 28-day Skylab 2 mission ends
2000: NASA announces evidence of present-day liquid water on Mars

 Tuesday 23

Neptune stationary

2017: CARTOSAT 2 spacecraft launched by ISRO

 Wednesday 24

Venus stationary

1999: FUSE spacecraft launched

 Thursday 25

1894: Hermann Oberth born
1992: STS-50 Columbia launched
1997: Progress spacecraft collides with Mir Spektr module
1999: Gemini North telescope dedicated

 Friday 26

1730: Charles Messier born
1914: Lyman Spitzer, Jr born
1963: Syncom 2 satellite launched
1984: First space shuttle launch pad abort (STS-41D)

 Saturday 27

1982: STS-4 Columbia launched
1995: STS-71 Atlantis launched
1997: NEAR-Shoemaker probe flies by asteroid Mathilde
2013: IRIS spacecraft launched2018: Hayabusa2 spacecraft arrives at asteroid Ryugu

 Sunday 28

First Qtr Moon 4:16 AM ET

1978: SEASAT 1 launched

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