Week on space 10-16 AUGUST

🌏 10/8/2020 Monday

🌠 Uranus 4° north of Moon

🚀 1966 Lunar Orbiter I launched

🚀 1990 Magellan enters orbit around Venus

🚀 2001 STS-105 Discovery launched

🌖 11/8/2020 Tuesday

🌠 Last Qtr Moon 12:45 PM ET

🛰 1960 Discoverer 13 capsule becomes first object recovered from orbit

🛰 1962 Vostok 3 launched

🌙 12/8/2020 Wednesday 

🌠 Venus greatest elongation (46° W)

🌠Perseid meteor shower

🛸 1877 Asaph Hall discovers Deimos, moon of Mars

🛸 1919 Margaret Burbidge born

🛸 1960 Echo 1 satellite launched on first successful Delta rocket

🛸 1962 Vostok 4 launched

🛸 1977 HEAO-1 launched

🛸 1977 Space shuttle Enterprise’s first glide test

🛸 2005 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launched

🛸 2018 Parker Solar Probe launched

🌑 13/8/2020 Thursday

🌠 Perseid meteor shower

⭐️ 14/8/2020 Friday

💥 2007 Rare image of Uranus captured by Hubble

☀️ 15/8/2020 Saturday

🇮🇳 Independence day 🇮🇳

🌠 Venus 4° south of Moon

🌠 Uranus stationary

🔭 1969 ISRO was founded under Department of Atomic energy

🌓 16/8/2020 Sunday

🛩 1963 M2-F1 lifting body makes first glide flight after being towed aloft by a C-47

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