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 ...
27 FEB. 2004
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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 demonstrated how close the 'Space Race' had become - the Americans had yet to launch Apollo 8 which would do the same but with people on board. The Apollo 8 mission took place in December 1968.
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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 ...
11 September
1985: On 11 September 1985, the International Cometary Explorer (ICE) made the first encounter with a comet tail - a fly-by of Comet P/Giacobini-Zinner.The spacecraft, launched in 1978 by NASA, ...
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