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- This is Space History For November.
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- 1 Werner Von Braun heads German liquid fueled rocket
- development(1932).
- Asteroid Chiron discovered(1977).
- 2 Harlow Shapley born(1885).
- 3 Laika becomes the first animal launched into orbit by USSR(1957).
- Mariner 10 launched 1st flyby pictures of Venus, first mission
- to Mercury(1973).
- 5 ATS-3 launched by US to take first pictures of full Earth
- disc(1967).
- 7 Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets
- (1918).
- 8 Edmund Halley born(1656).
- 9 First unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module
- (1967).
- 10 USSR launches Zond 6 to moon(1968).
- 11 Gemini 12 launched. Takes first solar eclipse photos from space(1966).
- 12 Voyager 1 makes closest approach to Saturn (1980).
- 13 Mariner 9 orbits Mars(1971).
- 14 Apollo 12 launched to moon(1969).
- 15 Johannes Kepler dies(1630).
- 15 Willim Herschel born(1738).
- 16 Skylab 4 launched. To complete longest US space flight, 2017
- hours(1973).
- 20 Edwin Hubble born(1889).
- 21 J. de Rozier makes 1st balloon flight(1783).
- 22 Arthur S. Eddington dies(1944).
- 25 1st Soviet liquid rocket attains altitude of 261 ft.(1933).
- 26 First Meteor photograph(1885).
- 29 Mercury launches a chimp called Ham(1961).
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