Week on space 8-14 JUNE

Hayabusa

 Monday 8

Jupiter 2° north of Moon
Saturn 3° north of Moon

1625: Giovanni Cassini born
1959: First X-15 unpowered glide test
1975: Venera 9 launched
2007: STS-117 Atlantis launched

 Tuesday 

1812: Johann Gottfried Galle born

 Wednesday 10

1985: Vega 1 deploys lander and balloon on Venus
2003: Mars rover Spirit launched

 Thursday 11

2008: Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope launched
2013: Shenzhou 10 launched, China's fifth human spaceflight mission

 Friday 12

Mars 1.7° south of Neptune
Neptune 4° north of Moon
Mars 3° north of Moon

1967: Venera 4 launched

 Saturday 13

Last Qtr Moon 2:24 AM ET

1831: James Clerk Maxwell born
1974: National Space Society founded
1983: Pioneer 10 leaves solar system, begins traveling in interstellar space2010: Hayabusa spacecraft returns first asteroid samples to Earth
2012: NuSTAR X-Ray telescope launched

 Sunday 14

Moon at apogee

1967: Mariner 5 launched
1975: Venera 10 launched
1985: Vega 2 deploys lander and balloon on Venus

Composed by

Abhinav P Pradeep, wayanad, Kerala, India

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