29 August
1965: On 29 August 1965, astronaut Gordon Cooper in orbit 160 kilometres above Earth aboard the NASA spacecraft Gemini 5 held a conversation with aquanaut M. Scott Carpenter in Sealab ...
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1844: On 30 August 1844, Francis Baily died.
Baily was a British astronomer who detected the phenomenon called Baily's beads during a total eclipse of the Sun on 15 May 1836. His vivid description aroused new interest in the study of eclipses.
Baily also revised several star catalogues, repeated Henry Cavendish's experiments to determine the density of Earth and measured its elliptical shape.
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28 August
1789: On 28 August 1789, Sir William Herschel discovered Saturn's moon Enceladus.Enceladus is one of the innermost moons of Saturn. It reflects almost 100 percent of the sunlight that strikes ...
27 August
1962: On 27 August 1962, the NASA Mariner 2 spacecraft was launched sending it on a three-and-a-half month flight to Venus. The first spacecraft to fly by another planet, Mariner ...
26 August
1822: On 26 August 1865, Johann Encke died.Encke was a German astronomer who found the period of Encke's Comet to be just over three years. This is the shortest period ...
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