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					1      164 years ago, in 1801: Giuseppe Piazzi of Italy discovers the largest asteroid, Ceres.	2      6 years ago, in 1959: Luna 1 is the first craft to reach Earth escape velocity or Trans Lunar Injection.
3      3 years ago, in 1962: OSCAR 1, the first amateur radio satellite, ceases communication.	4      7 years ago, in 1958: Sputnik 1 burns up after re-entering Earth's atmosphere.      6 years ago, in 1959: Luna 1 misses the moon, and is the first craft to go into orbit around the sun.      2 years ago, in 1963: Luna E-6 No.2 (Sputnik 25) is launched to perform a soft landing on the Moon, but the upper stage malfunctions.	5      60 years ago, in 1905: At the Lick Observatory, Charles D. Perrine discovers Elara, the eighth largest moon of Jupiter.	6	7      355 years ago, in 1610: Galileo sees three of the four "Galilean" moons of Jupiter for the first time through a telescope.      175 years ago, in 1790: Caroline Herschel discovers her third comet, Comet C/1790 A1 (Herschel).      77 years ago, in 1888: James Edward Keeler is the first to view what is known as the Encke Gap in Saturn's A ring, using the 36 inch telescope at Lick Observatory.	8      323 years ago, in 1642: Galileo Galilei dies at age 77 in Arcetri, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Italy.      23 years ago, in 1942: Theoretical physicist Stephen William Hawking is born in Oxford, England.	9
10      355 years ago, in 1610: Galileo noticies one of the three "Galilean" moons has disappeared; leading to his belief they were moons.	11      178 years ago, in 1787: William Herschel discovers two moons of Uranus, Oberon and Titania.	12      58 years ago, in 1907: Sergei Korolev, the Soviet "chief designer", is born in Zhytomyr, Russian Empire.	13      355 years ago, in 1610: Galileo discovers the fourth "Galilean" moon of Jupiter.	14	15	16
17      179 years ago, in 1786: Comet 2P/Encke is first viewed by French astronomer Pierre Mechain.	18	19        This year: Gemini 2 (unmanned) is launched; suborbital flight to test heat shield.	20      5 years ago, in 1960: The maiden flight of the Soviet Molniya carrier rocket is launched.	21      6 years ago, in 1959: The Project SCORE communications satellite burns up in Earths atmosphere.       1 year ago, in 1964: Relay 2, an experimental communications satellite, is launched.	22	23        This year: NASA's Crawler Transporter One moves under its own power for the first time.
24	25       1 year ago, in 1964: Echo 2, a metalized balloon passive-communications satellite, is launched.	26      16 years ago, in 1949: The 200-inch Hale Telescope sees "first light".      3 years ago, in 1962: Ranger 3 is launched to the Moon, but misses it and settles into a heliocentric orbit.	27      57 years ago, in 1908: Pasiphae, the largest retrograde moon of Jupiter, is discovered by Philibert Jacques Melotte.	28      16 years ago, in 1949: The first flight for X-ray research is made with a U.S. launched V-2, and it detects X-rays from the Sun.	29       1 year ago, in 1964: The Saturn I SA-5 (a Saturn I with a second stage) is successfully launched into orbit.	30       1 year ago, in 1964: Ranger 6 is launched to the Moon.
31      180 years ago, in 1785: NGC 2359 (Thor’s Helmet), a bright nebula in the constellation Canis Major, is discovered by William Herschel.      7 years ago, in 1958: The first successful U.S. satellite, Explorer 1, is launched and discovers the Van Allen radiation belts.      4 years ago, in 1961: Mercury-Redstone 2 (MR-2) is launched with Ham the chimp.      3 years ago, in 1962: OSCAR 1, the first amateur radio satellite, burns up in re-entry.