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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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 after reading all he could find on the subject, he attempted to make his own measuring instruments and started to correspond with other astronomers.
Flamsteed became Britain's first 'Astronomer Royal'.
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14 September
1926: On 14 September 1926, Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer died.Dreyer was a Danish astronomer who compiled the New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (NGC) in 1888.He had ...
13 September
1994: On 13 September 1994, ESA's Ulysses spacecraft reached a point less than 10 degrees from the Sun's south pole.Just as the polar regions of Earth were the last to ...
12 September
1959: On 12 September 1959, the Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 was launched. It became the first Earth-made object to hit the Moon. The spacecraft was sterilised to avoid contaminating the ...
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