Week on space 3-9 AUGUST

 

 Monday 3

Full Moon 11:59 AM ET

2004: MESSENGER spacecraft launched to Mercury
2005: First in-flight space shuttle repair

 Tuesday 4

1967: NASA announces sixth astronaut class
1984: First Ariane 3 launched
2007: Phoenix Mars Lander launched

 Wednesday 5

1930: Neil Armstrong born
1966: Final M2-F1 lifting body glide test
1969: Mariner 7 flies by Mars
2011: Juno spacecraft launched to Jupiter

 Thursday 6

Neptune 4° north of Moon

1961: Vostok 2 launched, first full-day human space mission, Gherman Titov first person to sleep in space
2012: Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity lands on Mars

 Friday 7

1959: Explorer 6 launched
1969: Zond 7 launched
1980: Viking 1 orbiter ceases operation
1997: STS-85 Discovery launched

 Saturday 8

1978: Pioneer-Venus 2 launched
1989: Hipparcos observatory launched
1989: STS-28 Columbia launched
2001: Genesis spacecraft launched
2007: STS-118 Endeavour launched

 Sunday 9

Mars 0.8° north of Moon
Moon at apogee

1965: First static test of SIV-B stage
1976: Luna 24 launched

Composed by

Abhinav P Pradeep, wayanad, Kerala, India

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