In this month: October
NASA becomes operational (1958) ; Luna 3 photographs the far side of the Moon (1959) : the Parker solar probe approaches the Sun (2018)
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Elizabeth Cocking
Sep 10, 20202 min read
Did You know? Intentional crash landings
This Month . . . Intentional crashed landings. Things that go bump in the night! Sometimes it helps astronomers and space engineers to...
Monty Leventhal OAM
Jul 17, 20202 min read
Solar Observations: June 2020
Monty has been observing regularly but over the past few months his reports have not been happy ones because the Sun has not been very...
Elizabeth Cocking
Jun 30, 20203 min read
In this month: July
4 July 1054 Chinese astronomers notice a star explode becoming a supernova in the constellation Taurus. It remained visible in the night...
Elizabeth Cocking
May 31, 20203 min read
In this month: June
2 June 1966 Surveyor 1, the first of the Surveyor robotic spacecraft, soft lands on the Moon. It was the first American spacecraft to...
Elizabeth Cocking
Sep 30, 20192 min read
In this month: October
EVENTS 31st October 1992 Pope John Paul II pardons Galileo for his views. The Catholic church condemned Galileo in 1633 for his...
Elizabeth Cocking
Aug 31, 20192 min read
In this month: September
26th September 1905 Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity is published. It is the generally accepted and experimentally confirmed...
Elizabeth Cocking
Jul 18, 20192 min read
Did you know? The Apollo missions
This month we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the Moon with a few little known facts of the Apollo missions. Where...
Elizabeth Cocking
Jun 30, 20192 min read
In this month: July 2019
5th July 1687 The book Principia is published by Sir Isaac Newton. Written in Latin with the title Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia...
Elizabeth Cocking
Mar 31, 20192 min read
In this month: April
15th April 1970 Humans travel the furthest in space when the Apollo 13 crew reach 400,171 km from Earth in an attempt to return to Earth...
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