12 October
1912: On 12 October 1912, Lewis Boss died.Boss was an American astronomer best known for his compilation of two catalogues of stars. In 1895 Boss began to plan a general ...
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1997: On 13 October 1997, the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens mission had been due to be launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA.
At nearly the last moment, the launch was cancelled. Engineers found a problem with a battery testing device on the launch pad, some minor computer glitches and high upper-level winds that posed a safety threat in the event of an explosion during launch.
Upper-level wind conditions had the potential of blowing debris outside safe impact limit lines. The mobile service tower was moved back into position around the rocket and engineers detanked the Centaur upper stage, and restarted launch processing.
The launch was delayed by two days.
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11 October
1968: On 11 October 1968, the NASA mission Apollo 7 was launched.After the January 1967 Apollo launch pad fire, the command module had been extensively redesigned. Apollo 7 was the ...
10 October
1986: On 10 October 1986, another object, apart from the Moon and manmade satellites, was discovered in orbit around Earth.Asteroid 3753 was found by J.D. Waldron and named 'Cruithne' after ...
9 October
1873: On 9 October 1873, Karl Schwarzschild was born.Schwarzschild was a German theoretical astrophysicist who made both practical and theoretical contributions to 20th century astronomy.He developed the use of photography ...
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