Week on space 5-11 OCTOBER

 

 Monday 5

1882: Robert Goddard born
1923: Edwin Hubble finds Cepheid variable stars in galaxy M-31
1962: European Southern Observatory founded
1984: STS-41G Challenger launched

 Tuesday 6

Mars closest approach

1990: STS-41 Discovery launched
1992: NASA and RASA sign Human Spaceflight Agreement to share astronauts and cosmonauts
2008: MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second flyby of Mercury

 Wednesday 7

1885: Niels Bohr born
1959: Luna 3 returns first images of the lunar far side
2002: STS-112 Atlantis launched
2010: Soyuz TMA-01M launched carrying ISS Expedition 25/26 crew

 Thursday 8

Draconid meteor shower

1873: Ejnar Hertzsprung born

 Friday 9

Last Qtr Moon 8:39 PM ET
Draconid meteor shower

1604: Kepler’s Supernova observed
2009: LCROSS detects water on the Moon

 Saturday 10

1846: William Lassell discovers Triton, moon of Neptune
1980: Very Large Array dedicated
1983: Venera 15 orbits Venus
2007: ISS Expedition 16 crew launched

 Sunday 11

1968: Apollo 7 launched 
1969: Soyuz 6, 7 & 8 in space at once 
1994: Magellan mission ends
2000: STS-92 Discovery launched
2005: Shenzhou 6 launched
2018: Soyuz MS-10 launched carrying ISS Expedition 57/58, in-flight launch abort

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