Week on space 19-25 OCTOBER

 

🚀Monday 19

1910: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar born
1967: Mariner 5 flies past Venus
2005: Final Titan IV rocket launched
2016: ExoMars arrives at Mars
2016: Soyuz MS-02 launched carrying ISS Expedition 49/50 crew
2018: BepiColombo spacecraft launched

🚀Tuesday 20

1970: Zond 8 launched
1995: STS-73 Columbia launched

🚀Wednesday 21

Orionid meteor shower

1923: First public planetarium show, Deutsches Museum in Munich
1998: Hubble Heritage Project website launched
2008: Chandrayaan-1 lunar probe launched

🚀Thursday 22

Ceres stationary
Orionid meteor shower
Jupiter 2° north of Moon

2136 BCE: First record of solar eclipse
1905: Karl Jansky born
1966: Luna 12 launched
1975: Venera 9 orbits Venus
1992: STS-52 Columbia launched

🚀Friday 23

Saturn 3° north of Moon
First Qtr Moon 9:23 AM ET

1968: First powered flight of the HL-10 lifting body
2007: STS-120 Discovery launched
2012: Soyuz TMA-06M launched carrying ISS Expedition 33/34 crew

🚀Saturday 24

1851: William Lassell discovers Uranus moons Umbriel & Ariel
1946: First photo of Earth taken from space
1968: 199th and final X-15 flight
1998: Deep Space 1 launched
2001: Mars Odyssey arrives at Mars
2007: Chang'e-1 lunar spacecraft launched

🚀Sunday 25

Mercury in inferior conjunction

1671: Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, moon of Saturn
1877: Henry Norris Russell born
1975: Venera 10 lands on Venus
2006: STEREO spacecraft launched

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