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/*
* Space
*
* $OpenBSD: calendar.space,v 1.3 2006/10/31 18:11:54 jasper Exp $
*/
#ifndef _calendar_space_
#define _calendar_space_
01/02 Soviet rocket carrying Lunokhod-1 leaves the Earth's orbit
the first time ever (though did not reach the moon), 1959
01/04 Quadrantid meteor shower (look north)
01/31 "Ham" the chimpanzee soars into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, 1961
01/31 Explorer I launched, 1958. Van Allen Belt discovered
02/18 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory, AZ, 1930
02/20 John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962
03/03 Gemini III launched with Virgil Grissom and John Young on board, 1965
03/16 Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn MA, 1926
03/17 Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped
03/18 Aleksei Leonov performs first spacewalk, 1965
03/23 Mir station Flares Farewell after 15 years of service, 2001
03/28 First reaction thrust motor demonstration, 1883
03/30 Five rings around Uranus discovered, 1977
04/12 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 1961
04/12 Space Shuttle Columbia launched, 1981
04/13 Apollo 13 aborts moon landing due to oxygen tank explosion, 1970
04/21 Lyrid meteor shower
05/05 Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space, 1961
05/14 Skylab (first U.S. space station) launched, 1973
06/03 Edward White becomes the first American to perform a "Space Walk", 1965
06/13 Pioneer 10 flies past Neptune's orbit, and becomes the first human
artifact to travel beyond the orbits of all known planets, 1983
07/11 Skylab enters Earth's atmosphere and is destroyed, 1979
07/04 NASA's Pathfinder lands on Mars, 1997
07/20 Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin land on moon, 1969
08/03 First ICBM (P-7) test (5T of iron is launched to Kamchatka), 1957
08/11 Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days)
08/12 First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977
08/19 Air Force cargo plane snares payload from Discoverer 14 spy satellite,
marking start of practical military reconnaissance from space, 1960
08/25 First reaction thrust motor design, 1898
08/29 Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975;
Nova Cygni 1975.
10/01 NASA officially begins operations, 1958
10/04 First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched, 1957
10/10 Mercury at Superior Conjunction with Sun. Moves into night sky. (1984)
10/18 Soviets announce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side, 1959
11/03 Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing space dog Laika
11/15 Space Shuttle Buran launched, 1988
12/13 Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with "last" men to walk on moon aboard, 1972
12/13 Geminid meteor shower (look south)
12/24 Apollo 8 first manned lunar orbit, 1968
12/30 Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies, 1924
#endif /* !_calendar_space_ */
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