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- August in Space History.
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- 4 US launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft
- Apollo 15. (1971).
- 5 USSR launches Mars 6. (1973).
- 7 US launches Explorer 6 to take 1st satellite photo of Earth. (1959).
- 7 Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2 (1961).
- 8 US launches Pioneer Venus probe. (1978).
- 9 USSR launches Mars 7. (1973).
- 10 US launch of Discoverer 13 results in 1st recovery of ejected film
- capsule. (1960).
- Launch of Lunar orbiter 1. (1966).
- 11 USSR launches 1st dual manned spacecraft flight. (1962).
- Asaph Hall discovers Deimos, moon of Mars. (1877).
- 12 Launch of Echo 1, 1st passive communications satellite. (1960).
- 13 Anders Jonas Angstrom born. (1814).
- 14 1st US lunar orbiter. (1966).
- 17 USSR launches Venera 7 to Venus. (1970).
- Asaph Hall discovers Phobos, moon of Mars. (1877).
- 19 National Aviation day.
- Orville Wright born. (1871).
- Cosmonauts Lyakhov & Ryumin complete a record 175-day space flight. (1979).
- John Flamsteed born. (1646).
- 20 Launch of Viking 1, 1st craft to send pictures from surface of Mars. (1975).
- Launch of Voyager 2 to outer solar system. (1977).
- 22 NASA's X-15 attains altitude of 67 miles. (1963).
- 25 William Herschel dies. (1822).
- Voyager 2 flies past Saturn. (1981).
- 26 Voyager makes its closest approach to Saturn enroute to Uranus and Neptune.
- (1981).
- 27 Launch of Mariner 2 which makes 1st Venus flyby. (1962).
- 28 William Herschel discovers Enceladus, moon of Saturn. (1789).
- 29 Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5. (1965).
- 30 Guy Bluford becomes first Black American in space as Challenger make the
- first night liftoff of the shuttle program. (1983).
- Maiden Voyage of Discovery carrying first non-astronaut Charlie Walker.
- (1984).