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Re: 2019: On this day . . . [Re: Mona - Astronomy] #931298 07/23/19 09:05 AM 07/23/19 09:05 AM
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Mona - Astronomy OP BellaOnline Editor Stone Age Human Joined: May 2010 Posts: 8,481 United Kingdom	On this day in 1999 - July 23rd - NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory was deployed by STS-93 Columbia. Columbia was under the command of Eileen Collins, the first woman commander of s space shuttle mission. Mona Evans For news, activities, pictures and more, sign up to the Astronomy Newsletter! http://www.bellaonline.com/newsletter/astronomy

Re: 2019: On this day . . . [Re: Mona - Astronomy] #931299 07/23/19 09:09 AM 07/23/19 09:09 AM
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Mona - Astronomy OP BellaOnline Editor Stone Age Human Joined: May 2010 Posts: 8,481 United Kingdom	On this day in 1972 - July 23rd - the US launched Landsat 1. The near-polar orbiting spacecraft served as a stabilized, Earth-oriented platform for obtaining information on Earth resources of all kinds, meteorology, pollution, etc. Over the lifetime of the satellite it provided around 300,000 images. Mona Evans For news, activities, pictures and more, sign up to the Astronomy Newsletter! http://www.bellaonline.com/newsletter/astronomy

Re: 2019: On this day . . . [Re: Mona - Astronomy] #931304 07/24/19 06:40 AM 07/24/19 06:40 AM
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Mona - Astronomy OP BellaOnline Editor Stone Age Human Joined: May 2010 Posts: 8,481 United Kingdom	On this day in 1950 - July 24th - the first rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Cape Canaveral - which for a time was called Cape Kennedy - became the launch site for the manned space program. Today the USA can only put astronauts into space via Russian launches. Mona Evans For news, activities, pictures and more, sign up to the Astronomy Newsletter! http://www.bellaonline.com/newsletter/astronomy

Re: 2019: On this day . . . [Re: Mona - Astronomy] #931305 07/24/19 06:42 AM 07/24/19 06:42 AM
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Mona - Astronomy OP BellaOnline Editor Stone Age Human Joined: May 2010 Posts: 8,481 United Kingdom	On this day in 1969 - July 24th - the crew of Apollo 11 returned safely to Earth. President John F. Kennedy's goal "of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth" had been achieved "before this decade is out", though he didn't live to see it. Mona Evans For news, activities, pictures and more, sign up to the Astronomy Newsletter! http://www.bellaonline.com/newsletter/astronomy

Re: 2019: On this day . . . [Re: Mona - Astronomy] #931306 07/24/19 06:44 AM 07/24/19 06:44 AM
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Mona - Astronomy OP BellaOnline Editor Stone Age Human Joined: May 2010 Posts: 8,481 United Kingdom	On this day in 1975 - July 24th - the Apollo crew returned to Earth after docking and working with a Russian Soyuz crew. The end of the Apollo Soyuz mission was the final flight of the Apollo program and the last US splashdown. Mona Evans For news, activities, pictures and more, sign up to the Astronomy Newsletter! http://www.bellaonline.com/newsletter/astronomy

Re: 2019: On this day . . . [Re: Mona - Astronomy] #931310 07/25/19 09:12 AM 07/25/19 09:12 AM
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Mona - Astronomy OP BellaOnline Editor Stone Age Human Joined: May 2010 Posts: 8,481 United Kingdom	On this day in 2009 - July 24th - the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GranTeCan or GTC) was dedicated. Located on La Palma in the Canary Islands of Spain, it's the world's largest single-aperture optical telescope. Mona Evans For news, activities, pictures and more, sign up to the Astronomy Newsletter! http://www.bellaonline.com/newsletter/astronomy

Re: 2019: On this day . . . [Re: Mona - Astronomy] #931311 07/25/19 09:14 AM 07/25/19 09:14 AM
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Mona - Astronomy OP BellaOnline Editor Stone Age Human Joined: May 2010 Posts: 8,481 United Kingdom	On this day in 1982 - July 25th - Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space. The Soviet cosmonaut was the first woman to go into space after Valentina Tereshkova's initial flight nineteen years earlier. Mona Evans For news, activities, pictures and more, sign up to the Astronomy Newsletter! http://www.bellaonline.com/newsletter/astronomy

Re: 2019: On this day . . . [Re: Mona - Astronomy] #931315 07/26/19 08:37 AM 07/26/19 08:37 AM
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Mona - Astronomy OP BellaOnline Editor Stone Age Human Joined: May 2010 Posts: 8,481 United Kingdom	On this day in 2000 - July 25th - the Zvezda Service Module docked with International Space Station. It was the first fully Russian contribution to the International Space Station and served as the early cornerstone for the first human habitation of the station. Mona Evans For news, activities, pictures and more, sign up to the Astronomy Newsletter! http://www.bellaonline.com/newsletter/astronomy

Re: 2019: On this day . . . [Re: Mona - Astronomy] #931316 07/27/19 10:14 AM 07/27/19 10:14 AM
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Mona - Astronomy OP BellaOnline Editor Stone Age Human Joined: May 2010 Posts: 8,481 United Kingdom	On this day in 1971 - July 26th - Apollo 15 was launched. This would be the first mission to use the lunar rover to explore. Mona Evans For news, activities, pictures and more, sign up to the Astronomy Newsletter! http://www.bellaonline.com/newsletter/astronomy

Re: 2019: On this day . . . [Re: Mona - Astronomy] #931317 07/27/19 10:31 AM 07/27/19 10:31 AM
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Mona - Astronomy OP BellaOnline Editor Stone Age Human Joined: May 2010 Posts: 8,481 United Kingdom	On this night in 1609 - July 26th - the English astronomer and mathematician Thomas Harriot looked at the Moon through a telescope, and left a dated sketch of what he saw. It's the oldest known drawing of a telescopic body - it was made nearly four months before Galileo's first drawing. Mona Evans For news, activities, pictures and more, sign up to the Astronomy Newsletter! http://www.bellaonline.com/newsletter/astronomy

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