16 January
2004: On 16 January 2004, ESA’s Mars Express orbiter flew almost directly over the NASA Spirit rover at Gusev Crater at an altitude of about 300 kilometres.
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1997: On 17 January 1997, Clyde W. Tombaugh died.
Tombaugh was an American astronomer who discovered the planet Pluto in 1930, the only planet discovered in the twentieth century, after a systematic search instigated by the predictions of other astronomers.
Tombaugh made his discovery at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. He also discovered several clusters of stars and galaxies, studied the apparent distribution of extragalactic nebulae, and made observations of the surfaces of Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and the Moon.
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15 January
1969: On 15 January 1969, the first docking of two manned spacecraft took place between the Soviet Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5. The spacecraft formed what was termed 'the world's first space station' with a crew of four on board.
13 January
1610: On 13 January 1610, Galileo Galilei discovered Callisto, the fourth satellite of Jupiter.
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