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On this day in 1787 – January 11th – William Herschel discovered the Uranian moons Oberon and Titania.It would be almost five decades after Titania and Oberon were discovered that another astronomer would observe them..
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On this day in 1873 – January 11th – American lawyer and amateur astronomer William Tyler Olcott was born in Chicago, Illinois.
As well as founding the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO), Olcott wrote a number of popular books on astronomy..
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On this day in 1907 – January 12th – Sergei Pavlovich Korolev was born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine.Korolev was the mastermind of the Soviet space program, and a state secret. If he was referred to at all, it was as the Chief Designer, not by name..
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On this day in 1610 – January 13th – Galileo discovered a fourth satellite of Jupiter.This was the moon we now know as Ganymede, the biggest moon in the Solar System..
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It's amazing what our ancestors accomplished so many years ago. We think we are hot stuff with the tech we have but look at what had been accomplished with so much less.
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On this day in 1916 – January 14th – the Royal Astronomical Society in London, founded in 1820, finally admitted the first elected women Fellows.
Recognising their achievement in astronomy and geophysics, Mary Adele Blagg, Ella K Church, A Grace Cook and Fiammetta Wilson were admitted to full membership in the society..
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On this day in 2005 – January 14th – the European Space Agency (ESA) probe Huygens landed on Saturn's moon Titan.It was the first time a spacecraft had been landed on a moon other than our own. Here is footage of the Huygens landing on Titan..
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On this day in 2006 – January 15th – NASA's Stardust spacecraft completed its mission by returning its samples to Earth.
Stardust was a robotic space probe whose primary mission was to collect dust samples from the coma of comet Wild 2, as well as samples of cosmic dust..
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On this day in 1969 – January 16th – the first docking of two manned spacecraft occurred.
The Soviet Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 docked in space and transferred crew from one vehicle to another via a space walk..
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On this day in 2015 – January 16th – the UK Space Agency announced that the remains of the probe Beagle 2 had been located on Mars.The probe had been lost on Christmas Day 2003 after successful insertion into orbit by Mars Express. It was finally identified in images from the HiRise camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)..
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