1 October
1958: On 1 October 1990, Jean-Marie Luton became Director General of ESA.He was the fourth Director General of ESA, succeeding Prof. Dr Reimar Lüst, and serving until 1997. Prior to ...
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1920: On 2 October 1920, Giuseppe (Bepi) Colombo was born.
He was an Italian mathematician and engineer whose bald head and grey moustache were familiar in the corridors of both ESA and NASA. As one of the initiators of ESA's mission to Halley's Comet he suggested its name, Giotto, but he died before the project was accomplished.
The ESA mission BepiColombo is named after him.
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30 September
1951: On 30 September 1676, the Danish astronomer Ole Rømer announced that the 9 November eclipse of Io by Jupiter would occur 10 minutes later than that predicted. He was ...
29 September
1951: On 29 September 1951, US astronomer Seth Nicholson discovered Ananke, the twelfth satellite of Jupiter.As a graduate student at the University of California he was photographing the recently-discovered eighth ...
28 September
1953: On 28 September 1953, Edwin Hubble died.Hubble was an American astronomer who is considered the founder of extragalactic astronomy and who provided the first evidence of the expansion of ...
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