Week on space 13-19 JULY

 Monday 13

1995: STS-70 Discovery launched
2019: Russian Spektr RG X-ray Observatory launched

 Tuesday 14

Jupiter at opposition
Uranus 4° north of Moon

1965: Mariner 4 completes first successful flyby of Mars
1967: Surveyor 4 launched
2015: New Horizons makes first ever Pluto flyby

 Wednesday 15

Pluto at opposition

1943: Jocelyn Bell Burnell born
1975: Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (Apollo 18) launched, last Apollo mission
2004: Aura satellite launched
2009: STS-127 Endeavour launched
2012: Soyuz TMA-05M launched carrying ISS Expedition 32/33 crew

 Thursday 16

1969: Apollo 11 launched
1994: First fragment of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts Jupiter
2011: Dawn spacecraft enters orbit around Vesta2018: Astronomers announce discovery of 12 new moons of Jupiter

 Friday 17

Venus 3° south of Moon

1850: John Adams Whipple takes first stellar photograph (Vega)
1970: Final HL-10 lifting body flight
1975: Apollo-Soyuz dock in orbit
1984: Soyuz T-12 launched, 100th human space flight

 Saturday 18

1921: John Glenn born
1966: Gemini X launched
1980: India becomes seventh nation to launch its own satellite

 Sunday 19

Mercury 4° south of Moon

1846: Edward Pickering born
1967: Explorer 35 launched
1985: NASA selects Christa McAuliffe as first teacher to travel in space
2019: Chinese Tiangong 2 space station deorbited

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