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On this day in 1960 – February 9th – biochemist and NASA astronaut, Peggy Whitson, was born in Mount Ayr, Iowa, USA.

Whitson was the first woman to command the International Space Station, and she did it twice. She was also NASA's Chief Astronaut and although now retired, still has the record for the most time in space of any NASA astronaut.

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On this day in 2010 – February 11th – NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) was launched.

The SDO observes the Sun in order to understand the ways in which it affects the Earth, such as space weather.

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On this day in 2001 – February 12th – NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft landed on the asteroid 433 Eros.

NEAR - Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous - Shoemaker was the first spacecraft ever to make a soft landing on an asteroid.

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On this day in 1852 – February 13th – Johan Dreyer was born in Copenhagen.

Dreyer was a prominent astronomer and writer. He was born in Denmark but became a British citizen. Dreyer is best remembered for his New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (based on the Herschel catalogues of nebulae). The catalogue numbers are still in use, prefixed by NGC.

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On this day in 1898 – February 14th – Swiss astronomer and physicist Fritz Zwicky was born in Varna, Bulgaria.

He studied physics and mathematics at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich. In 1925 immigrated to the United States to work with Robert Andrews Millikan at Caltech, but remained a Swiss citizen all his life. Zwicky was quite eccentric in many ways, but made important contributions in many areas of astronomy carrying out research at both Mt Wilson and Palomar observatories.

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On this day in 1980 – February 14th – NASA's Solar Maximum mission was launched.

Solar Max was designed to investigate solar phenomena, particularly solar flares.

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On this day in 1990 – February 14th – NASA's Voyager 1 took a Family Portrait, looking towards the Sun from 6 billion km away.

Earth is only one pixel of the image, christened by Carl Sagan "the pale blue dot".

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On this day in 2011 – February 14th – Stardust-NExT spacecraft made a close flyby of comet Tempel 1.

It was NASA's second visit to Tempel 1, because the Deep Impact mission had visited it in 2005, sending an impactor in order to learn about the comet's interior.

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On this day in 1564 – February 15th –Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy.

Galileo was one of the first to use a telescope to observe the heavens. He's known for his astronomical discoveries, his experimental physics and, of course, his getting in trouble with the Church.

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On this day in 1973 – February 15th – Pioneer 10 became the first ever spacecraft to cross the asteroid belt.

Pioneer 10 was launched in 1972, and is is now nearly four times further away from the Sun than Pluto is.

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