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. On this day in 1930 – August 5th – Neil Armstrong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, USA.Armstrong, Apollo 11 astronaut, was the first human to set foot on another world when he stepped onto the Moon at 02:56 GMT on 21 July 1969..
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. On this day in 1961 – August 6th – the Soviet Vostok 2 was launched, the first full day mission.Cosmonaut Gherman Titov became the second man in space and the first person to sleep in space..
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On this day in 2012 – August 6th – the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity landed on Mars.
Curiosity continues to carry out the mission of searching for signs of habitable environments, past and present, on the red planet.
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. On this day in 2014 – August 6th – ESA's Rosetta became the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet.Rosetta finally met up with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after a decade-long journey chasing it..
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. On this day in 1576 – August 8th – Tycho Brahe laid the cornerstone for Uraniborg.Uraniborg, built on the island of Hven between Denmark and Sweden, was a custom-built observatory and research center, the most advanced that had ever been seen at that time..
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On this day in 1948 – August 8th – Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya was born in Moscow.
She was the second woman in space and the first to carry out a spacewalk.
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On this day in 1989 – August 8th – the European Space Agency (ESA) satellite Hipparcos was launched.
It was the first space experiment devoted to the accurate measurement of the positions of celestial objects in the sky. It operated until 1993.
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On this day in 2001 – August 8th – NASA's Genesis spacecraft was launched.
Genesis was a sample-return probe designed to collect a sample of solar wind and return it to Earth for analysis.
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On this day in 2000 – August 9th – the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the second pair of Cluster satellites.
This completed the four-satellite constellation of the Cluster II mission. The four spacecraft are providing a detailed three-dimensional map of the magnetosphere.
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. On this day in 1675 – August 10th – the first Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed, laid the cornerstone for the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.By the end of the 19th century most of the world's shipping was using navigation charts based on the Prime Meridian at Greenwich..
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