17 November
1995: On 17 November 1995, ESA's ISO mission was launched by an Ariane 44P launcher from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.Probing the cool and hidden Universe, the Infrared Space ...
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1923: On 18 November 1923, Alan Shepard, Jr. was born.
Shepard was America's first man in space and one of only twelve humans who walked on the Moon. Named as one of the nation's original seven Mercury astronauts in 1959, Shepard became the first American into space on 5 May 1961. His flight came three weeks after the launch of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who on 12 April 1961, became the first human space traveller.
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16 November
1973: On 16 November 1973, Skylab III was launched from Cape Canaveral, USA.It was an 84-day mission that remained the longest American spaceflight for over two decades (until Norm Thagard ...
15 November
1738: On 15 November 1738, Sir William Herschel was born.Herschel was a German-born British astronomer. In 1773, he made and began using his first telescope. With it he began a ...
14 November
1930: On 14 November 1930, Edward H White was born.White was the first US astronaut to walk in space, on board Gemini 4, launched on 3 June 1965. During the ...
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