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On this day in 1912 – May 28th – Australian radio astronomer Ruby Payne-Scott was born in Grafton, New South Wales.

She worked on radar systems in World War II, and post war helped to lay the foundations for radio astronomy. Payne-Scott was the first woman radio astronomer.
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On this day in 1794 – May 29th – German astronomer Johann Heinrich von Mädler was born in Berlin.

Von Mädler, along with Wilhelm Beer, published Mappa Selenographica. It was the most complete map of the Moon at that time, and it remained unsurpassed for over forty years.
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On this day in 1919 – May 29th – Einstein's General Theory of Relativity was tested during a total solar eclipse.

By comparing the apparent distance between stars in the constellation Taurus, with and without the Sun between them, British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington confirmed the theoretical predictions about gravitational lensing.
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On this day in 1925 – May 29th – Irish astronomer Mary Brück, née Conway, was born in Ballivor, County Meath.

Mary Brück was a a senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, her astronomical research including investigations of stars, the interstellar medium and the Magellanic Clouds. However she is probably best remembered as a writer, with a particular interest in the history of science and women in astronomy.
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On this day in 1934 – May 30th – cosmonaut Alexi Leonov was was born in Listvyanka, West Siberian Krai, Russian SFSR.

As a cosmonaut, among his accomplishments was his being the first person to carry out a spacewalk. Leonov was also a writer and an accomplished artist.
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On this day in 1959 – May 30th – American geophysicist and planetary scientist Claudia Joan Alexander was born in Vancouver, Canada.

With degrees in geophysics and space physics, Alexander researched as a planetary scientist and was the project manager for the Galileo mission in its final phase. She was also the science coordinator for the Cassini mission to Saturn, and in 200 the project manager for NASA's contribution to the European Rosetta mission to Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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On this day in 1963 – May 30th – English chemist, astronaut and science communicator, Helen Sharman, was born in Grenoside, Sheffield.

Chosen to train as a cosmonaut, Sharman was the first Briton in space and the first woman to visit the Mir space station.
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On this day in 1975 – May 30th – nine countries signed the convention to establish the European Space Agency (ESA).

The convention came into force on 30 October 1980 with the deposit of the last instrument of ratification.
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On this day in 1877 – May 31st – French astronomer Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion was born in Meudon in the département of Hauts-de-Seine.

Gabrielle, the second wife of the prominent astronomer Camille Flammarion, was General Secretary of the Société Astronomique de France. She worked with her husband at his observatory at Juvisy-sur-Orge, France from where she carried out observations of planets, minor planets and variable stars. Gabrielle Flammarion published work on several topics including the Great Red Spot on Jupiter and the surface features of Mars.
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