9 August
1975:On 9 August 1975, ESA launched COS-B. COS-B was the first ESA mission to study gamma-ray sources. Its results created a catalogue of these sources, known as the 2CG catalogue, ...
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1960: On 10 August 1960, a capsule ejected from the US Discoverer 13 satellite was recovered when it returned from orbit; it was the first human-made object recovered from space.
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Dr Robert H. Goddard
1945: On 10 August 1945, Robert Hutchings Goddard died.
Goddard (born 5 October 1882) was a physicist and engineer, and is regarded as the 'father' of modern American rocketry. By 1926, Goddard had constructed and tested successfully the first rocket using liquid fuel. The flight of his rocket on 16 March 1926, at Auburn, Massachusetts, was a feat as important in history as that of the Wright brothers flight at Kitty Hawk.
1675: On 10 August 1675, British King Charles II laid the foundation stone of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London.
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8 August
1989:On 8 August 1989, ESA launched its Hipparcos mission. Hipparcos pinpointed the positions of one hundred thousand stars. It turned slowly on its axis and repeatedly scanned right around the ...
7 August
2000:On 7 August 2000, astronomers from the University of Texas and other members of an international planetary research team discovered a new gas planet in a solar system only 10.5 ...
6 August
1879:On 6 August 1879, Scottish-born German astronomer Johann von Lamont died.Von Lamont was born on 13 December 1805, and was noted for discovering in 1852 that the magnetic field of ...
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