It's been 3962 days
since New Horizons'
closest approach
to Pluto on
July 14, 2015.
It's been 2695 days
since New Horizons'
closest approach
to 2014 MU69 on
January 1, 2019.
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168 years ago, in 1801:
Giuseppe Piazzi of Italy discovers the largest asteroid, Ceres.
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3 years ago, in 1966:
Explorer 21 reenters the Earth's atmosphere and burns up.
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10 years ago, in 1959:
Luna 1 is the first craft to reach Earth escape velocity or Trans Lunar Injection.
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7 years ago, in 1962:
OSCAR 1, the first amateur radio satellite, ceases communication.
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11 years ago, in 1958:
Sputnik 1 burns up after re-entering Earth's atmosphere.
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10 years ago, in 1959:
Luna 1 misses the moon, and is the first craft to go into orbit around the sun.
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6 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.
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64 years ago, in 1905:
At the Lick Observatory, Charles D. Perrine discovers Elara, the eighth largest moon of Jupiter.
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This year:
Venera 5 is launched for Venus.
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359 years ago, in 1610:
Galileo sees three of the four "Galilean" moons of Jupiter for the first time through a telescope.
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179 years ago, in 1790:
Caroline Herschel discovers her third comet, Comet C/1790 A1 (Herschel).
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81 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.
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1 year ago, in 1968:
Surveyor 7 is launched for the Moon.
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327 years ago, in 1642:
Galileo Galilei dies at age 77 in Arcetri, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Italy.
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27 years ago, in 1942:
Theoretical physicist Stephen William Hawking is born in Oxford, England.
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359 years ago, in 1610:
Galileo noticies one of the three "Galilean" moons has disappeared; leading to his belief they were moons.
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1 year ago, in 1968:
Surveyor 7 lands on the Moon in the lunar highland region.
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1 year ago, in 1968:
The first Australian satellite, WRESAT, reenters the atmosphere and burns up over the Atlantic ocean.
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This year:
Venera 6 is launched for Venus.
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182 years ago, in 1787:
William Herschel discovers two moons of Uranus, Oberon and Titania.
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1 year ago, in 1968:
GEOS-2 (Geodetic Earth Orbiting Satellite); also known as GEOS-B & Explorer 36, is successfully launched for geodetic studies of the Earth.
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62 years ago, in 1907:
Sergei Korolev, the Soviet "chief designer", is born in Zhytomyr, Russian Empire.
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359 years ago, in 1610:
Galileo discovers the fourth "Galilean" moon of Jupiter.
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3 years ago, in 1966:
Sergei Korolev, Russia's "Chief Designer", dies at age 59 in Moscow, Russia.
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This year:
Soyuz 4 is launched for a rendezvous with Soyuz 5.
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This year:
Soyuz 5 is launched for a rendezvous with Soyuz 4.
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This year:
Soyuz 5 docks with Soyuz 4; the two craft are joined for 4 hours, 35 minutes.
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183 years ago, in 1786:
Comet 2P/Encke is first viewed by French astronomer Pierre Mechain.
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This year:
Soyuz 4 returns to Earth.
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This year:
Soyuz 5 returns to Earth.
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4 years ago, in 1965:
Gemini 2 (unmanned) is launched; suborbital flight to test heat shield.
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2 years ago, in 1967:
The Luna 12 mission ends when contact is lost.
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9 years ago, in 1960:
The maiden flight of the Soviet Molniya carrier rocket is launched.
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This year:
Zond 1969A is launched as an uncrewed lunar test flight, but the second stage stuts down 25 seconds early, ending the mission.
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10 years ago, in 1959:
The Project SCORE communications satellite burns up in Earths atmosphere.
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5 years ago, in 1964:
Relay 2, an experimental communications satellite, is launched.
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1 year ago, in 1968:
First test of the Apollo Lunar Module in space (Apollo 5 - unmanned test flight).
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This year:
The fifth Orbiting Solar Observatory, OSO-5 (OSO-F) is launched successfully.
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4 years ago, in 1965:
NASA's Crawler Transporter One moves under its own power for the first time.
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5 years ago, in 1964:
Echo 2, a metalized balloon passive-communications satellite, is launched.
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20 years ago, in 1949:
The 200-inch Hale Telescope sees "first light".
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7 years ago, in 1962:
Ranger 3 is launched to the Moon, but misses it and settles into a heliocentric orbit.
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61 years ago, in 1908:
Pasiphae, the largest retrograde moon of Jupiter, is discovered by Philibert Jacques Melotte.
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2 years ago, in 1967:
Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee lose their lives when a fire sweeps through the command module (Apollo 1).
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20 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.
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3 years ago, in 1966:
NASA's Crawler Transporter One successfully transports a mobile launcher one mile to the Vehicle Assembly Building.
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5 years ago, in 1964:
The Saturn I SA-5 (a Saturn I with a second stage) is successfully launched into orbit.
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5 years ago, in 1964:
Ranger 6 is launched to the Moon.
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This year:
ISIS-I, a Canadian research satellite to explore the ionosphere, is launched.
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184 years ago, in 1785:
NGC 2359 (Thor’s Helmet), a bright nebula in the constellation Canis Major, is discovered by William Herschel.
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11 years ago, in 1958:
The first successful U.S. satellite, Explorer 1, is launched and discovers the Van Allen radiation belts.
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8 years ago, in 1961:
Mercury-Redstone 2 (MR-2) is launched with Ham the chimp.
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7 years ago, in 1962:
OSCAR 1, the first amateur radio satellite, burns up in re-entry.
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3 years ago, in 1966:
Luna 9 is launched to the Moon.
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1 year ago, in 1968:
After 183 days, Lunar Orbiter 5 is deliberately crashed into the Moon.
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