Week on space 12-18 OCTOBER

 

🚀Monday 12

1964: Voskhod 1 launched, first three-person space flight

2008: ISS Expedition 18 crew launched

🚀 Tuesday 13

Mars at opposition
Venus 4° south of Moon

1773: Charles Messier observes M-51

1933: British Interplanetary Society founded

1968: Apollo 7 first live TV broadcast from space

2004: ISS Expedition 10 crew launched

🚀Wednesday 14

Mercury stationary

1947: World’s first supersonic flight

🚀Thursday 15

1829: Asaph Hall born

1931: APJ Abdul Kalam born

1994: ISRO launched IRS-P2 by PSLV D2

1997: Cassini-Huygens launched

2003: Shenzhou 5 launched, Yang Liwei becomes first Chinese astronaut

🚀Friday 16

New Moon 3:31 PM ET
Moon at perigee

2014: ISRO launched IRNSS-1C onboard PSLV-C26

🚀Saturday 17

Mercury 7° south of Moon

1956: Mae Jemison born

1989: Resourcesat-1 launched

2016: Shenzhou-11 launched

🚀Sunday 18

1967: Venera 4 makes first direct studies of Venus’s atmosphere 

1989: STS-34 Atlantis launched

1993: STS-58 Columbia launched

2003: ISS Expedition 8 crew launched

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Composed by

Abhinav P Pradeep, wayanad, Kerala, India

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