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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 ...
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1992: On 5 November 1992, Jan Hendrik Oort died.
Oort was a Dutch physicist and astronomer, one of the most important figures in 20th-century efforts to understand the nature of the Milky Way galaxy. He measured the rotation of the galaxy and hypothesized a cloud of comets surrounding the system - now called the 'Oort Cloud.'
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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 ...
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 ...
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