3 November
1973: On 3 November 1973, Mariner 10 was launched.Mariner 10 used Venus as a gravity assist to enable it to reach Mercury in 1974. During the fly-by, the spacecraft returned ...
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2003: On 4 November 2003, sunspot region 10486 released a massive solar flare, bigger than anything yet seen in recorded observational history.
The flare saturated the X-ray detectors on several monitoring satellites. It was estimated as an X25 intensity flare, a level never seen before by ESA's SOHO spacecraft.
The associated coronal mass ejection (CME) came out of the Sun's surface at about 2300 kilometres per second (8.2 million km/h).
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2 November
2000: On 2 November 2000, an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts became the first permanent residents of the International Space Station, at the start of their four-month mission.After their ...
1 November
1932: On 1 November 1932, engineer Wernher von Braun was named head of the German liquid-fuel rocket programme.Von Braun eventually went on to design the Saturn V rockets which took ...
31 October
1981: On 31 October 2000, International Space Station Expedition 1 was launched on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Expedition Commander William Shepherd, Soyuz Commander Yuri Gidzenko and ...
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