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On This Date in History - February 6
Quote Of The Day
We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein
Who Was Born Today?
1961: Yuri Ivanovich Onufriyenko, Russian major/cosmonaut, Mir, Soyuz TM-23
Who Died Today?
1923: Edward E Barnard, U.S. astronomer (5th moon Jupiter), age 65
1973: Ira S Bowen, U.S. physicist/astronomer (Mt Wilson/Palomar), age 74
Today in History:
1971: Apollo 14 - USA Lunar Manned Lander (January 31 to February 8, 1971) Crew: Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Edgar D. Mitchell, Stuart A. Roosa. Shepard and Mitchell landed on the moon on February 5, 1971, in the Fra Mauro highlands, located at 3°40' S and longitude 17°28' E. They collected 42.9 kilograms of lunar samples and used a hand-held cart to transport rocks and equipment.
1994: Clementine - USA Lunar Orbiter - (launched January 25, 1994) spent 70 days (between February 6 and May 5, 1994) in lunar orbit. The official name for Clementine is Deep Space Probe Science Experiment (DSPSE). It was a Department of Defense program used to test new space technology. Clementine was a new design using lightweight structure and propellant systems. Its four cameras mapped the surface of the Moon at 125-250 meters/pixel resolution. Clementine also used a laser to gather altimeter data which will make it possible to generate the first lunar topographic map.
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On This Date in History - February 7
Astronomy & Space Word of The Day
Asteroid Number : number assigned to an asteroid when it is discovered. It has no particular meaning except that asteroid N+1 was discovered after asteroid N.
Who Was Born Today
1935: Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov, cosmonaut, Soyuz 6, 19, 36/35
1941: Frederick Drew Gregory, Washington D.C., Col USAF/astro, STS 51-B, 33, 44
1951: Talgat Amangeldyyevich Musabayev, Russian mjr/cosmonaut, TM-19, TM-27
Who Died Today
1994: Lewis Boddington, aerospace Engineer
Today in History
1610: Galileo Galilei first sees Io, Europa, and Callisto. Jan 4 through 15, 1610, Galileo Galilei points his newly developed telescope at the sky and observes craters and mountains on the Moon, moving spots on the Sun, four moons revolving around Jupiter, the phases of Venus, and the almost innumerable stars of the Milky Way. These dates are called by some the most important days in the history of astronomy.
1968: Surveyor 7 - USA Lunar Soft Lander launched. Landed on the lunar surface.
1985: Sakigake - Japan Comet Flyby launched. Comet Halley flyby took place on March 1, 1986.
1998: Launch of Lunar Prospector Moon orbiter
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On This Date in History - February 8
Astronomy & Space Fact
Did you know that there are 6 gyroscopes on the Hubble Space Telescope? The gyroscopes are used to point the telescope.
Who Was Born Today?
1950: Jose Armando Lopez-Falcon, Cuba, cosmonaut
Who Died Today?
1957: John Von Neumann, astronomer, age 53
1974: Fritz Zwicky, Swiss/US astronomer (supernova), age 75
1995: B G Hooghoudt, radiotelescope build (Dwingeloo/Westerbork), age 70
Today in History:
1743: Comet C/1743 C1 approaches within 0.0390 AUs of Earth
1971: Apollo 14 - USA Lunar Manned Lander (January 31 to February 8, 1971) splashed down safely. Crew: Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Edgar D. Mitchell, Stuart A. Roosa. Shepard and Mitchell landed on the moon on February 5, 1971, in the Fra Mauro highlands, located at 3°40' S and longitude 17°28' E. They collected 42.9 kilograms of lunar samples and used a hand-held cart to transport rocks and equipment.
1974: Skylab 4's astronauts land
1984: 1st time 8 people in space
1984: Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7
1988: NASA launches DOD-2
1992: Ulysses - USA & Europe Solar Flyby made a Jupiter flyby. The Ulysses spacecraft is an international project to study the poles of the Sun and interstellar space above and below the poles. It used Jupiter for a gravity assist to swing out of the ecliptic plane and onward to the poles of the Sun. The first solar polar passage was in June 1994. The spacecraft passed the solar equator in February 1995 and passed over the north pole in June 1995.
1994: Clementine - USA Lunar Orbiter - (launched January 25, 1994) spent 70 days (between February 6 and May 5, 1994) in lunar orbit. The official name for Clementine is Deep Space Probe Science Experiment (DSPSE). It was a Department of Defense program used to test new space technology. Clementine was a new design using lightweight structure and propellant systems. Its four cameras mapped the surface of the Moon at 125-250 meters/pixel resolution. Clementine also used a laser to gather altimeter data which will make it possible to generate the first lunar topographic map.
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On This Date in History - February 9
Astronomy & Space Word of The Day:
Ammonia : A colorless gas made of nitrogen and hydrogen. It has a sharp smell. It can be mixed with water and used for household cleaning.
Who Was Born Today?
1954: Ulrich Walter, German FR, cosmonaut
1960: Peggy A. Whitson, Mt Ayr Iowa, PhD/astronaut
Who Died Today?
1811: Nevil Maskelyne, 5th Astronomer Royal of England (1765-1811)
Today in History:
1497: Nicolaus Copernicus observed the Moon eclipse the star Aldebaran.
1986: Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun)
1990: Galileo flies by Venus
1994: Clementine, a US Lunar Orbiter (launched January 25, 1994), spent 70 days (between February 6 and May 5, 1994) in lunar orbit. The official name for Clementine is Deep Space Probe Science Experiment (DSPSE). It was a Department of Defense program used to test new space technology. Clementine was a new design using lightweight structure and propellant systems. Its four cameras mapped the surface of the Moon at 125-250 meters/pixel resolution. Clementine also used a laser to gather altimeter data which will make it possible to generate the first lunar topographic map.
1995: Bernard Harris became the first African American astronaut to take a spacewalk.
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On This Date in History - February 10
Astronomy & Space Word of The Day
exponential notation: 1.23e4 means "1.23 times 10 to the fourth power" or 12,300; "5.67e -8" means "5.67 divided by 10 to the eighth power" or 0.0000000567.
Today in History:
1720: Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
Galileo - USA & Europe Jupiter Orbiter/Atmospheric Probe - 2,222 kg - (October 18, 1989) used gravity assist techniques to pick up speed by flying past Venus. Galileo was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites and surrounding magnetosphere for 2 years. It then flew past the Earth & Moon on December 8, 1990 and then again on December 8, 1992. It has made encounters with asteroid 951 Gaspra on October 29, 1991, and asteroid 243 Ida on August 28, 1993.
1994: Clementine - USA Lunar Orbiter - (launched January 25, 1994) spent 70 days (between February 6 and May 5, 1994) in lunar orbit. The official name for Clementine is Deep Space Probe Science Experiment (DSPSE). It was a Department of Defense program used to test new space technology. Clementine was a new design using lightweight structure and propellant systems. Its four cameras mapped the surface of the Moon at 125-250 meters/pixel resolution. Clementine also used a laser to gather altimeter data which will make it possible to generate the first lunar topographic map.
1997: Comet Shoemaker-Holt 2 Closest Approach to Earth (1.9245 AU)
1997: Soyuz TM-25 launches to the MIR
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On This Date in History - February 11
Astronomy & Space Word of The Day
topography: The general configuration of a land surface.
Who Was Born Today?
1953: Stephen D. Thorne, Frankfurt-on-Main, German FR, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut
1960: Richard A. Mastracchio, Waterbury, Connecticut, astronaut
Today in History:
1970: Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite, Osumi, in orbit
1974: Titan-Centaur Test launch fails
1984: 10th space shuttle mission (41-B)-Challenger 4-returns to Earth
1994: Clementine - USA Lunar Orbiter - (launched January 25, 1994) spent 70 days (between February 6 and May 5, 1994) in lunar orbit. The official name for Clementine is Deep Space Probe Science Experiment (DSPSE). It was a Department of Defense program used to test new space technology. Clementine was a new design using lightweight structure and propellant systems. Its four cameras mapped the surface of the Moon at 125-250 meters/pixel resolution. Clementine also used a laser to gather altimeter data which will make it possible to generate the first lunar topographic map.
1994: Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands
1995: Space shuttle STS-63 (Discovery 19), lands
1997: STS 82 (Discovery 22) launches
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On This Date in History - February 12
Astronomy & Space Word of The Day
chromophores: Groups of atoms or molecules that are responsible for pigmentation (color).
Who Was Born Today?
1893: Marcel G J Minnaert, Dutch astronomer
1933: Ivan Nikolayevich Anikeyev, cosmonaut
1936: Fang Lizhi, Chinese astrophysicist/dissident
Who Died Today?
1787: Ruggiero Boscovich, Ital physicist/astronomer/philosopher, dies at 75
Today in History:
1955: Soviets decide space center to be built in Baikonur, Kazachstan
1961: Venera 1 - USSR Venus Flyby launched. Now in a solar orbit.
1974: Mars 5 - USSR Mars Orbiter entered into orbit around Mars. It acquired imaging data for the Mars 6 and 7 missions.
1979: Kosmos 1076, 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched
1994: Clementine - USA Lunar Orbiter - (launched January 25, 1994) spent 70 days (between February 6 and May 5, 1994) in lunar orbit. The official name for Clementine is Deep Space Probe Science Experiment (DSPSE). It was a Department of Defense program used to test new space technology. Clementine was a new design using lightweight structure and propellant systems. Its four cameras mapped the surface of the Moon at 125-250 meters/pixel resolution. Clementine also used a laser to gather altimeter data which will make it possible to generate the first lunar topographic map.
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On This Date in History - February 13
Astronomy & Space Word of The Day
Sun: The star closest to Earth. The center of our solar system. A ball of hot, glowing gases which gives Earth heat and light.
Who Was Born Today?:
1852: Johan L E Dreyer, Danish astronomer, New gen catalogue of nebulae
1937: Sigmund Jaehn, German DR, cosmonaut, Soyuz 31/29
1939: Valery Illych Rozhdestvensky, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Soyuz 23
1942: Donald E Williams, Lafayette, Indiana, Capt USN/astronaut, STS 51D, STS 34
Today in History
1578: Tycho Brahe 1st sketches "Tychonic system" of solar system
1633: Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun
1961: Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus
1994: Clementine - USA Lunar Orbiter - (launched January 25, 1994) spent 70 days (between February 6 and May 5, 1994) in lunar orbit. The official name for Clementine is Deep Space Probe Science Experiment (DSPSE). It was a Department of Defense program used to test new space technology. Clementine was a new design using lightweight structure and propellant systems. Its four cameras mapped the surface of the Moon at 125-250 meters/pixel resolution. Clementine also used a laser to gather altimeter data which will make it possible to generate the first lunar topographic map.
1997: Discovery captures Hubble Space Telescope
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On This Date in History - February 14
Astronomy & Space Word of The Day
solar nebula: The cloud of gas and dust that began to collapse about 5 billion years ago to form the solar system.
Who Was Born Today
1898: Fritz Zwicky, Swiss astronomer, super nova
1947: Pham Tuan, Vietnam, cosmonaut, Soyuz 37/36
Who Died Today
1950: Karl G Jansky, Czech discoverer of cosmic radio sources, age 44
Today in History
1894: Venus is both a morning star and evening star
1972: Luna 20 - USSR Lunar Lander launched. Landed on the moon and returned samples to the Earth. Landed on February 21, 1972 at Apollonius highlands located at latitude 3°32' N and longitude 56°33' E. 30 grams of lunar samples were returned to the Earth.
1963: U.S. launches communications satellite Syncom 1
1980: U.S. launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares
1990: Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system
2001: Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft becomes first vehicle to land on an asteroid (433 Eros)
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On This Date in History - February 15
Astronomy & Space Word of The Day
shooting star: A meteor.
Who Was Born Today?
1564: Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa (now in Italy)., Pisa Italy, astronomer/physicist
Galileo Galilei
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1858: William Pickering, Boston, astronomer, 9th and 10th moons of Saturn
1935: Roger B Chaffee, Grand Rapids Michigan, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut
1944: Aleksandr A. Serebrov, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Soyuz T-7, T-8, TM-8, TM-17
1950: Nikolai Sergeivich Grekov, Russia, cosmonaut
Today in History:
1973: U.S.S.R. launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km)
1985: STS 51-E vehicle moves to launch pad
1994: Clementine - USA Lunar Orbiter - (launched January 25, 1994) spent 70 days (between February 6 and May 5, 1994) in lunar orbit. The official name for Clementine is Deep Space Probe Science Experiment (DSPSE). It was a Department of Defense program used to test new space technology. Clementine was a new design using lightweight structure and propellant systems. Its four cameras mapped the surface of the Moon at 125-250 meters/pixel resolution. Clementine also used a laser to gather altimeter data which will make it possible to generate the first lunar topographic map.
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