Week on space JUNE 29 - JULY 5

 Monday 29

Moon at perigee

1868: George Ellery Hale born
1961: Transit 4A launched, first nuclear-powered satellite
1971: Soyuz 11 crew dies during reentry

 Tuesday 30

Mercury in inferior conjunction

1908: Tunguska impact levels hundreds of miles of Siberian forest
2001: WMAP spacecraft launched

 Wednesday 1

1917: 100” mirror arrives at Mt. Wilson Observatory

1972: Wernher von Braun retires from NASA
1997: STS-94 Columbia launched

 Thursday 2

1985: European Space Agency launches Giotto probe to study Halley’s Comet2019: Orion spacecraft second launch abort test

 Friday 3

1935: Harrison Schmitt born

 Saturday 4

Earth at aphelion

1054: Crab Nebula supernova observed
1868: Henrietta Swan Leavitt born
1997: Mars Pathfinder lands on Mars
2005: Deep Impact probe collides with comet Tempel 1
2006: STS-121 Discovery launched
2016: Juno spacecraft begins orbiting Jupiter

 Sunday 5

Full Moon 12:44 AM ET (Penumbral eclipse)
Jupiter 1.9° north of Moon

1966: Apollo-Saturn 203 launched

1982: Space Shuttle Challenger arrives at Kennedy Space Center for first time

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Abhinav P Pradeep, wayanad, Kerala, India

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