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- This month in space history for September
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- 1 Pioneer 11, 1st craft to fly by Saturn(1979).
- 2 The asteroid Juno discovered(1804).
- 3 Viking 2 lands on Mars (1976).
- 4 NASA launches its first Orbital Geophysical Observatory
- (OGO-1)(1964).
- 5 Voyager 1 is begins 3 year cruise to Jupiter and Saturn(1977).
- 7 Bell X-2 sets Unofficial world's altitude record for manned
- aircraft 126,000+ feet(1956).
- 9 Almalthea, moon of Jupiter, discovered(1892).
- Viking 2 launched (1975).
- 11 James Jeans born(1877).
- 12 USSR launches Luna 2, first craft to impact another celestial
- body.(Moon,1959).
- Gemini 11 achieves rendevous and docking during 1st
- orbit(1966).
- USSR Launches Luna 16 to Moon(1970).
- 14 USSR's Zond 5 is launched on 1st circum lunar flight(1968).
- Leda, Moon of Jupiter, Discovered by Charles Kowal(1974).
- 16 James Jeans dies(1946).
- 17 Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of the Moon(1968).
- 19 Hyperion, moon of Saturn, discovered(1848).
- 20 German rocket engineers begin work in US(1945).
- 21 Luna 16 leaves the Moon(1970).
- 22 Zond 5 completes flight(1968).
- 23 J. Galle discovers Neptune using calculations by U.J.J.
- Leverrier and J.C. Adams(1846).
- 24 First Automated return of lunar sample by Luna 16(1970).
- 26 Cosmonauts Titov and Strekalov are saved from their exploding
- Soyuz T-10 booster by the launch escape system(1983).
- 28 Edwin Hubble dies(1953).