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- This month in Space history for October.
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- 1 Inauguration of NASA(1958).
- Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA(1958).
- 2 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit(1984).
- 3 Launch of first V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles(1942).
- Mercury 8 completes 6 Earth orbits(1962).
- AF pilot Pete Knight flies x-15 at a record 4,534 MPH(1967).
- Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown(1972).
- 4 First artificial satellite, Sputnik 1 launched(1957).
- USSR Luna 3 sent back first photos of Moon's far side (1959).
- Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit(1960).
- 5 Robert Goddard born(1882).
- Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star(1923).
- 41-G Challenger carried first Canadian, Marc Garneau, into orbit(1984).
- 7 Luna 3 photographs far side of moon(1959).
- 8 Ejnar Hertzsprung born(1873).
- 9 2 cosmonauts launched to saluyt 5, but returned after failing to dock(1977).
- Kathy Sullivan becomes first American woman to walk in space(1984).
- 10 Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell(1846).
- 11 Pioneer 1 launched; 1st spacecraft launched by NASA as an official agency
- (1958).
- First manned Apollo flight (Apollo 7) launched(1968).
- Cosmonauts Popov and Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days(1980).
- 12 US/USSR signed an agreement for joint space effort in telecommunications and
- meteorology; pact was never fullfilled(1962).
- USSR launches first 3 man crew in space(1964).
- Mariner 9 took pictures of Martian north pole(1972).
- 13 Tycho Brahe dies(1601).
- Voshkod 1 crew returns(1964).
- 14 Yeager makes first supersonic flight at EAFB(1947).
- 2 cosmonats launched to Salyut 6, but return without docking(1976).
- 18 USSR Venera 4 became 1st craft to make controlled descent into Venusian
- Atmosphere(1967).
- 19 Mariner 5 flew by Venus(1967).
- 21 Venera 9, first craft to orbit the planet Venus
- launched(1975).
- 22 Chinese make first record of solar eclipse(2136BC).
- USSR's Venera 9 sends 1st photos from Venus(1975).
- Apollo 7 crew returns(1968).
- USSR Venera 9 made day landing on Venus(1975).
- 23 The Cosmos was created according to Archbishop James Usher (4004 BC).
- 24 Ariel and Umbriel, moons of Uranus, discovered by
- Lassell(1846).
- 24 Disaster on USSR launch pad killed missle expert Nedelin and his team
- (unconfirmed); USSR claims he was killed in plane crash (1960).
- Intelsat 5 re-entered Earth's atmosphere 5 months after upper stages failed
- (1984).
- 25 Iapetus, moon of Saturn, Discovered by Giovanni Cassini(1671).
- Henry Norris Russell born(1877).
- USSR Venera 10 made day Venus landing(1975).
- 26 USSR Soyuz 2 launched(1968).
- 27 First Saturn Made a unmanned flight test(1961).
- 28 German rocket engineers begin work in USSR(1946).
- US/USSR signed an agreement to discuss joint space efforts(1970).
- 29 Edmund Halley born(1656).
- 30 USSR Kosmos 186 and 188 make 1st automatic docking(1967).
- Venmera 13 launched to Venus
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