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On this day in 2003 – April 28th – NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) was launched.
GALEX, which operated until early 2012, was an orbiting space telescope observing galaxies in ultraviolet light. Its observations provided data about how galaxies - the basic structures of our Universe - evolve and change.
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On this day in 1682 – May 1st – the Paris Observatory was inaugurated by Louis XIV.It's one of the oldest - and the oldest still active - astronomical centres in the world.
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On this day in 1949 – May 1st – Gerard Kuiper discovered Neptune's moon Nereid.Nereid was the second known moon of Neptune. It was discovered over a century after William Lassell discovered the first moon, Triton.
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On this day in 1989 – May 4th – NASA's Magellan spacecraft was released by Space Shuttle mission STS-30 Atlantis, the first interplanetary mission to be so launched.
The spacecraft, often referred to as the Venus Radar Mapper, went on to map the surface of Venus using synthetic aperture radar which is able to penetrate the planet's thick clouds.
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On this day in 2002 – May 4th – NASA launched the Aqua scientific research satellite.
Aqua was the second major component of the Earth Observing System (EOS), and was designed to study the precipitation, evaporation and cycling of water.
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On this day in 1961 – May 5th – Alan Shepard became the first American in space, making a suborbital flight in Freedom 7.Ten years later Shepard walked on the Moon as the commander of Apollo 14.
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On this day in 1961 – May 5th – Alan Shepard became the first American in space, making a suborbital flight in Freedom 7.Ten years later Shepard walked on the Moon as the commander of Apollo 14.
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On this day in 1872 – May 6th – Dutch astronomer and mathematician Willem de Sitter was born in Sneek, Netherlands.
He is best remembered for his contributions to cosmology, in particular for showing that a universe containing very little matter would expand. This paved the way for later research carried out by the American astronomer Edwin Hubble who was to provide observational evidence that the universe is expanding. De Sitter's work was honored with two prestigious awards, the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
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On this day in 1872 – May 6th – Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was born in Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England.Cecilia Payne was the first woman to earn a PhD in astronomy from Radcliffe College of Harvard University. And in her PhD thesis, she was the first person to propose that stars were composed mainly of hydrogen and helium.
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On this day in 2003 – May 9th – the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa ("peregrine falcon") was launched.
Hayabusa was the first mission to return a sample of material from an asteroid.
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