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On this day in 2004 – November 20th – The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission was launched.

Swift is a multi-wavelength space observatory designed to study gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Its three instruments work observe GRBs and their afterglows in the gamma-ray, X-ray, ultraviolet, and optical wavebands.

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On this day in 1885 – November 27th – the first known photograph of a meteor was taken during the Andromedid meteor shower.

Austro-Hungarian astronomer Ladislaus Weinek caught a 7mm-long trail at his Prague observing station. (Since the 19th century the Andromedids have faded so much that they're no longer generally visible to the naked eye.)

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On this day in 1971 – November 27th – the Soviet Mars 2 probe became the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.

However it wasn't the first successful mission, because the landing system failed and the lander was lost.

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On this day in 1964 – November 28th – NASA's Mariner 4 was launched.

The spacecraft made the first successful flyby of the planet Mars, returning the first pictures of the Martian surface. These were the first images of another planet ever returned from deep space.

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On this day in 2013 – December 1st – China's Chang'e-3 spacecraft was launched to Moon.

It also carried the rover Yutu which was deployed for a time on the lunar surface.

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On this day in 1995 – December 2nd – the NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory was launched.

It was originally planned as a two-year mission, but it's still providing essential data about the Sun and space weather.

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On this day in 1993 – December 2nd – the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission was launched.

The crew of the Space Shuttle Endeavour went to the telescope with a new main camera and a corrective optic package to restore its blurred vision.

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On this day in 2014 – December 3rd – the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2 was launched.

Hayabusa is an asteroid sample return mission whose target is asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It's expected to arrive at the target in July 2018.

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On this day in 1997 – December 4th – NASA's Mars Pathfinder was launched.

Mars Pathfinder was an American robotic spacecraft that landed a base station (named the Carl Sagan Memorial Station) and Sojourner, the first roving probe on Mars.

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On this day in 1639 – December 4th – Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree in England became the first people ever to observe a transit of Venus.

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