Curiosity is a car-sized Mars rover designed to explore the Gale crater on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission. Curiosity was launched from Cape Canaveral on November 26, 2011, at 15:02 UTC and landed on Aeolis Palus inside Gale on Mars on August 6, 2012
🚀Monday 23
1977: Meteosat 1 launched
1983: 149-day Salyut 7 mission ends
2002: STS-113 Endeavour launched
2014: Soyuz TMA-15M launched carrying ISS Expedition 42/43 crew
2015: New Shepard makes first powered vertical landing of rocket booster from space
🚀Tuesday 24
1947: First Aerobee rocket launch
1991: STS-44 Atlantis launched
🚀Wednesday 25
1933: First liquid fuel rocket GIRD 10 launched by USSR
1970: First powered flight of M2-F3 lifting body
🚀Thursday 26
1965: France becomes third nation to launch a satellite; Diamant A
1975: Final X-24B lifting body flight
1985: STS-61B Atlantis launched
1989: Kvant 2 module launched
2011: Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity launched
2018: InSight spacecraft lands on Mars
🚀Friday 27
1885: First photo of a meteor shower
1971: Mars 2 probe becomes first artificial object to hit Mars
1997: Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission launched
2010: ISRO launched HYLAS-1
2019: ISRO launched Cartosat-3
🚀Saturday 28
1964: Mariner 4 launched
1983: STS-9 Columbia launched
2017: Voyager 1 fired backup thruster for first time in 37 years
🚀Sunday 29
1961: A chimpanzee named Enos was launched into space by NASA
1967: First Australian satellite launched
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