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. On this day in 1962 – July 10th – Telstar 1 was launched.It was the beginning of a revolution in global communications..
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On this day in 1732 – July 11th – French astronomer Jérôme Lalande was born in Bourg-en-Bresse.
He held the chair of astronomy in the Collège de France in for nearly half a century and a number of his students became distinguished astronomers. As well as being an observer, Lalande also gave popular lectures and wrote about astronomy.
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. On this day in 1979 – July 11th – NASA's Skylab re-entered the atmosphere.Skylab had orbited for seven years and provided valuable data for human space flight..
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On this day in 2019 – July 13th – the Russian Spektr RG X-ray Observatory was launched.
The satellite is a Russian–German high-energy astrophysics space observatory.
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On this day in 1978 – July 14th – ESA's GEOS-2 satellite was launched on a Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral.
GEOS-2 was the first spacecraft dedicated completely to scientific measurements in an equatorial geostationary orbit.
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. On this day in 2015 – July 14th – NASA's New Horizons mission made a historic fly-by of Pluto and its moons.The data that came home revolutionized our conception of the dwarf planet and its family..
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. On this day in 1943 – July 15th – Northern Irish astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell was born.As a graduate student she first noted what turned out to be rotating neutron stars, now called pulsars. Until then, neutron stars were only theoretically an endpoint of the evolution of massive stars..
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On this day in 1965 – July 15th – NASA's Mariner 4 completed the first successful flyby of Mars.
Returning the first close-up pictures of the Martian surface, the Mariner 4 images were the first ever returned of another planet from deep space.
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On this day in 1967 – July 15th – the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome and the Kennedy Space Center.
This was the first joint U.S.-Soviet space flight, a symbol of detente between the superpowers - it involved the docking of an Apollo Command/Service Module with the Soviet Soyuz.
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. On this day in 1969 – July 16th – Apollo 11 was launched.Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins set off for the Moon. They weren't the first to visit our satellite, but Armstrong and Aldrin would be the first to land on it..
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