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January 1, 1801 : Ceres, first asteroid discovered
January 3, 2008 :
Peak of Quadrantid meteor shower
January 4, 2008 : Earth at perihelion (closest
point to Sun)
January 15, 2008 : NASA Messenger mission flyby of Mercury
January 24, 1986 : Voyager 2 flies past Uranus
January 30, 2008 : Asteroid
2007 WD5 passes Mars with a 1 in 75 chance of hitting it!
January 31,
1958 : First American satellite, Explorer 1, launched
February 15, 1564 : Galileo Galilei (Italian astronomer) born
February 18,
1930 : Discovery of Pluto by Clyde Tombaugh
February 19, 1473 : Nicolaus Copernicus
(Polish astronomer) born
February 20, 1962 : American John Glenn orbits the
Earth
Febraury 21, 2008 : Total Lunar Eclipse (viewable from North America)
February 23, 1987 : Supernova 1987A discovered
Marsh 5, 1979 : Voyager 1 flies past Jupiter
March 13, 1781 : Uranus
discovered by William Herschel
March 13, 1855 : Percival Lowell (American
astronomer) born
March 18, 1965 : First space walk by Alexei Leonov, cosmonaut
March 20, 2008 : Vernal Equinox (Spring begins)
March 20, 2008 : Sun-Earth
Day more
info.
April 4, 1960 : Frank Drake begins first search for extraterrestrial intelligence
April 12, 1961 : First man in space, Yuri Gagarin, cosmonaut
April 12, 1981
: First space shuttle (Columbia) launched
April 21, 2008 : Peak of Lyrid meteor
shower
April 25, 1990 : Space Shuttle Discovery deploys Hubble Telescope
May 3, 2008 : National Space Day
May 5, 1961 : First American
in space, Alan B. Shepard
May 10, 2008 : National Astronomy Day
May 14, 1973 : Space Station Skylab launched
May 25, 1961 : President Kennedy
announces goal to visit Moon
May 25, 2008 : NASA Phoenix mission to land in
north polar region of Mars
June 2, 1965 : First American space walk, James McDivitt & Edward H.
White
June 16, 1963 : First woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut
June 18, 1983 : First American woman in space, Sally K. Ride
June 20, 2008
: Summer Solstice (summer begins)
July 1, 2004 : Cassini spacecraft enters Saturn orbit
July 3, 2008 :
Earth at aphelion (farthest distance from Sun)
July 4, 1997 : Mars Pathfinder
and Sojourner land on Mars
July 16, 1969 : Apollo 11 launched (first manned
landing)
July 16, 1994 : Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashes into Jupiter
July
20, 1969 : First man to walk on the Moon, Neil A. Armstrong
July 20, 1976
: Viking 1 lands on Mars
July 23, 1999 : Chandra X-Ray Observatory launched
July 1959 : President Eisenhower creates NASA
August 12, 1977 : First test glide of space shuttle Enterprise
August
12, 2008 : Peak of Perseid meteor shower
August 22, 1981 : Voyager 2 flies
past Saturn
August 24, 1989 : Voyager 2 flies past Neptune
September 23, 1846 : Neptune discovered
September 22, 2008 : Autumnal
Equinox (autumn begins)
September 24, 1970 : First lunar soil returned to
Earth (USSR)
October 1, 1958 : NASA inaugurated
October 4, 1957 : Sputnik 1, first
man-made orbital object, launched (50th anniversary)
October 6, 1995 :
Discovery of first extra-solar (beyond solar system) planet
October 5, 1882
: Robert Goddard "father of modern rocketry" born
October 21, 2008
: peak of Orionid meteor shower
November 3, 1957 : Sputnik 2 launched with canine passenger, Laika
November
8, 1656 : Edmond Halley (English astronomer) born
November 9, 1934 : Carl
Sagan (American astronomer) born
November 11, 1572 : Tycho Brahe observes
a supernova
November 12, 1980 : Voyager 1 flies past Saturn
November 17,
2008 : peak of Leonid meteor shower
December 13, 2008 : peak of Geminid meteor shower
December 21, 2008 :
Winter Solstice (winter begins)
December 25, 1642 : Isaac Newton born
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