Week on space 17-23 AUGUST

 

 Monday 17

Mercury in superior conjunction

1966: Pioneer 7 launched
1970: Venera 7 launched
2006: Voyager 1 is 100 AU from Earth

 Tuesday 18

New Moon 10:41 PM ET

1868: Total solar eclipse leads to discovery of helium
1877: Asaph Hall discovers Phobos
1960: Discoverer XIV launched, first successful US photo reconnaissance satellite
1993: First DC-X flight
1999: Cassini spacecraft flies by Earth

 Wednesday 19

1646: John Flamsteed born
1891: Milton Humason born
1982: Soyuz T-7 launched, Svetlana Savitskaya is second woman in space

 Thursday 20

1953: First Redstone rocket launched
1960: Sputnik 5 launched
1975: Viking 1 launched
1977: Voyager 2 launched

 Friday 21

Moon at perigee

1965: Gemini V launched
1972: OAO-3 launched
2002: First Atlas V rocket launched

 Saturday 22

1963: X-15 sets world altitude record for a winged craft (354,000 feet)
1976: Luna 24 returns soil samples from Moon

 Sunday 23

1966: Lunar Orbiter I returns first image of Earth from Moon

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