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On this day in 1964 – October 12th – the Soviet craft Voskhod 1 was launched.
As the first spacecraft to carry three cosmonauts, it was another step forward in manned space flight.
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. On this day in 1884 – October 13th – Greenwich in the United Kingdom was adopted as the prime meridian of the world.There had been many prime meridians in use by countries around the world. But at the International Meridian Conference held in Washington DC, 25 maritime countries voted to adopt the Greenwich meridian as the longitude line of zero degrees.
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On this day in 1993 – October 13th – the British Interplanetary Society was founded in Liverpool, UK by Phillip Cleator.
The society is the oldest space advocacy organisation in the world.
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On this day in 1994 – October 13th – NASA's Magellan mission ended with the spacecraft plunging into Venus.
Magellan - also referred to as the Venus Radar Mapper - was the first interplanetary mission to be launched from the Space Shuttle. It mapped the surface of Venus and measured the planetary gravitational field.
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On this day in 1788 – October 14th – Irish geophysicist, explorer and astronomer Edward Sabine was born in Dublin.
He's best remembered by astronomers for his research into changes in the Earth’s magnetic field, which he eventually recognised as being associated with solar activity. Using pendulum experiments, Sabine also made what was the most accurate determination of the exact shape of the Earth up to that time.
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On this day in 1788 – October 15th – English astronomer James South was born in London.
South was an active observer and best remembered for his observation of double stars. He and John Herschel compiled a catalog of double stars originally observed by William Herschel, and South went on to observe 458 further double stars. He was awarded both the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society and the prestigious Copley Medal of the Royal Society.
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. On this day in 1829 – October 15th – American astronomer Asaph Hall was born in Goshen, Connecticut.Hall is best known for his discovery of Phobos and Deimos, the moons of Mars.
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. On this day in 1987 – October 15th – the NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission was launched to study the Saturnian system.The spacecraft arrived at Saturn in January 2005 and studied the system for nearly twenty years.
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On this day in 2003 – October 15th – China launched Shenzhou 5.
Shenzhou 5 was the China's first manned spaceflight, with Yang Liwei as the first Chinese astronaut in space.
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.On this day in 1956 – October 17th – former NASA astronaut Mae Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama.Jemison - engineer, doctor, university professor and businesswoman - became the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
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