28 October
1971: On 28 October 1971, the United Kingdom became the sixth nation to launch a satellite. The Prospero satellite, also known as the X3, was launched into orbit by a ...
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1998: On 29 October 1998, US astronaut John Glenn was launched into space aboard Space Shuttle 'Discovery'.
In 1962, Glenn made history as the first American to orbit Earth. Now at age 77, and a US Senator from Ohio, Glenn was a member of the STS-95 crew, serving as a Payload Specialist. He carried out studies on the commonalities between the effects of spaceflight and ageing. The nine-day mission returned on 7 November 1998. His original flight had lasted about five hours.
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27 October
1867: On 27 October 1867, John Wrottesley died.Wrottesley was an English astronomer who published The Catalogue of the RA of 1318 Stars. Wrottesley became a founder member of the Royal ...
26 October
1959: On 26 October 1959, the USSR released a photo of the far side of the Moon taken by the Lunik III probe. It was the first time anybody had ...
25 October
1877: On 25 October 1877, Henry Norris Russell was born.Russell was an American astronomer and astrophysicist who showed the relationship between a star's brightness and its spectral type, in what ...
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