18 September
2003: On 18 September 2003, the last preparations for ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft were made in Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, to make it ready for its launch the following ...
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1988: On 19 September 1988, Israel launched its first satellite, 'Ofeq-1' on board a Shavit rocket from the Negev Desert, becoming the ninth country to launch a rocket into space.
1961: On 19 September 1961, NASA announced that location of the new 'Manned Spacecraft Center' would be in Houston, Texas. This was the conclusion of an intensive nationwide study by a site selection team. The Manned Spacecraft Center would be the command centre for the manned lunar-landing missions and all follow-on manned spaceflight missions.
1848: On 19 September 1848, Hyperion, a moon of Saturn was discovered by both Bond of the United States and Lassell of the United Kingdom (independently).
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17 September
1789: On 17 September 1789, Sir William Herschel, the German-born British astronomer discovered Saturn's moon Mimas.The surface of Mimas is dominated by an impact crater 130 kilometres across (almost one ...
16 September
1662: On 16 September 1662 there was a solar eclipse, witnessed in Derby, England, by a sixteen-year-old boy called John Flamsteed.Flamsteed's interest in astronomy was stirred by this eclipse, and ...
15 September
1968: On 15 September 1968, Zond 5 was launched. Part of the Soviet space programme, it became the first spacecraft to orbit the Moon and return. At the time it ...
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