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On this day in 1886 - September 21st - H.G. Wells was born.
This English writer is considered to be one of the fathers of science fiction.
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On this day in 2003 - September 21st - NASA's Galileo mission was ended by having the spacecraft plunge into Jupiter.
Galileo was the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter, the first to achieve an asteroid flyby (951 Gaspra), and it discovered the first asteroid moon - Dactyl, around asteroid 243 Ida.
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On this day in 1999 - September 22nd - NASA's Pioneer 10 reached the distance of 50 AU from the Sun.
The spacecraft was the first one to cross the Asteroid Belt, and it carried out the first mission to Jupiter. It was also the first to reach escape velocity from the Solar System. At 50 AU from the Sun, it was 50 times farther away from the Sun than Earth is, about 7.5 billion km (4.7 billion miles). It's now over 124 AU away.
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On this day in 2006 - September 22nd - the solar mission Hinode was launched.
Hinode [Sunrise] is a Japanese solar mission with USA and UK collaboration. It was planned as a three-year mission to explore the magnetic fields of the Sun, but is still collecting data.
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On this day in 2014 - September 22nd - NASA's MAVEN mission went into orbit around Mars.
MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) is studying the Martian atmosphere.
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On this day in 1556 - September 22nd - Danish noblewoman and horticuturalist Sophia Brahe was born.She was also knowledgable in astronomy, chemistry and medicine. The younger sister of Tycho Brahe, she often assisted him with his astronomical observations.
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On this day in 1783 - September 23rd - Caroline Herschel discovered NGC 253 The Sculptor Galaxy.Also known as the Silver Coin or Silver Dollar Galaxy, NGC 253 is a starburst spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor.
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On this day in 1846 - September 23rd - Johann Galle discovered Neptune.Galle had received calculations from Urbain LeVerrier which showed where there might be a new planet, and Galle found the planet that very night. Eventually, it was named Neptune, after the Roman sea god.
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On this day in 1930 - September 24th - John Young was born.As a NASA astronaut, Young had a long career which included being the ninth person to walk on the Moon when he was the Commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972.
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On this day in 2014 - September 24th - the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) entered Mars orbit.
MOM was India's first interplanetary mission and is still studying Mars.
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