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On this day in 1935 – March 14th – Apollo astronaut Eugene Cernan was born in Chicago, Illinois.

Cernan, the commander of Apollo 17, was the last man on the Moon.

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On this day in 2016 – March 14th – Part 1 of the joint ESA/Roscosmos ExoMars astrobiology mission was launched.

The launch of the spacecraft containing ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and Schiaparelli lander was successful. (TGO is now in orbit around Mars, but the lander crashed.)

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On this day in 1713 – March 15th – French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille was born in Rumigny.

Lacaille was one of astronomy's greats. He surveyed nearly 10,000 stars in the southern hemisphere, and invented fourteen new constellations still in use today.

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On this day in 1932 – March 15th – Apollo astronaut Alan Bean was born in Wheeler, Texas.

Bean was the Apollo 12 lunar module pilot, and the fourth person to walk on the Moon.

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On this day in 1750 – March 16th – Caroline Herschel was born.

Caroline Herschel was an assistant to her brother William. She also discovered eight comets and a number of deep-sky objects. She was the first woman to be awarded a Gold Medal by the Royal Astronomical Society.

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On this day in 1899 – March 17th – American astronomer William Henry Pickering discovered Phoebe, the ninth satellite of Saturn.

It was the first moon ever to be discovered photographically. Pickering spotted it on a photographic plate taken in August 1989 at Harvard College Observatory's station near Arequipa, Peru.

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On this day in 1930 – March 17th – Apollo astronaut Jim Irwin was born was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Irwin was the Apollo 15 lunar module pilot and eighth person to walk on the Moon.

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On this day in 2011 – March 17th – NASA's Messenger spacecraft went into orbit around Mercury.

Messenger was the first craft ever to orbit Mercury.

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On this day in 1965 – March 18th – the Soviet spacecraft Voskhod 2 was launched.

On this mission, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a spacecraft for a "spacewalk".

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