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			01 XF-86	02	03 Mercury Atlas 8 STS-51-J A4 / V2 Zagami Meteorite	04 Vandenberg AFB Sputnik Little Joe 6 Kaguya - Moon Insert.
05 (Week 41) STS-41-G Robert Goddard	06 STS-41	07 STS-112 5:04am» First Quarter Moon 5:05am» Half Moon (waxing)	08	09 Draconids Peekskill Meteorite	10	11 STS-92 Apollo 7
12 (Week 42)	13	14 4:02pm» Full Moon 4:03pm» Full Moon	15 Cassini	16	17	18 STS-34 STS-58 Chiron Venera 4 8 Flora
19 (Week 43) Mariner 5	20 STS-73 Christopher Wren	21 Orionid Meteor Shower Yerkes Observatory 7:55am» Last Quarter Moon 7:55am» Half Moon (waning)	22	23 STS-120	24 V2 no. 13	25 Lark missile Henry Russell
26 (Week 44)	27	28 7:14pm» New Moon 7:15pm» New Moon	29 V2 no 66 STS-95	30 STS-61-A	31

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(1947) XF-86 first flight Prototype for the F-86 Sabre, which was a transonic combat aircraft built for the US Air Force. The F-86 was developed in the 1940s following the end of World War II and was one of the most-produced Western jet fighters in the Cold War era.

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(1962) Mercury Atlas 8 Launch - Sigma - Walter Schirra

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(1985) STS-51-J Atlantis Launch - Department of Defense (DOD)

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(1942) A4/V2 first successful flight at Peenemunde

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(1962) This meteorite landed about 10 feet away from a farmer who was chasing crows from his corn field. After a puff of smoke and a thud, the meteorite buried itself in a hole about 2 feet deep. At 40 pounds, it is the largest individual Mars meteorite ever found.

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(1958) Vandenberg AFB dedicated, first free-world ICBM base

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(1957) Sputnik - Russia

Launch of the first artificial satellite.

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(1959) Little Joe 6 with boilerplate Mercury launched at Wallops

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(2007) Kaguya - Japan - Lunar Orbiter

This is Japan's first probe to visit the moon since a technology demonstrator crashed into the surface in 1993.

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(1984) STS-41-G Challenger Launch - Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS); Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications-3 (OSTA-3)

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(1882) Robert Goddard's Birthday

The father of modern rocket propulsion. By 1926, Goddard had constructed and tested successfully the first rocket using liquid fuel. Indeed, the flight of Goddard's rocket on March 16,1926, at Auburn, Massachusetts, was a feat as epochal in history as that of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk.

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(1990) STS-41 Discovery Launch - Ulysses; Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (SSBUV); INTELSAT Solar Array Coupon (ISAC)

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(2002) STS-112 Atlantis Launch - ISS Flight 9A, S1 (S-One) Truss

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5:04am

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First Quarter Moon

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5:05am

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Half Moon (waxing)

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Draconids Meteor Shower Peaks

Very erratic shower best viewed after midnight. Meteors rates can be only a couple and hour to many hundred.

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(1992) A 27.3 pound (12.4 kg) meteorite fell in Peekskill, New York, and struck a 1980 Chevy Malibu sitting in its driveway. The meteorite penetrated all the way through the trunk of the car, barely missing the gas tank.

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(2000) STS-92 Discovery Launch - ISS Assembly Flight 3A , Z1 Truss and PMA 3

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(1968) Apollo 7 Launch - Schirra, Eisele, Cunningham

Apollo 7 was the first manned mission in the Apollo program to be launched. It was an eleven-day earth-orbital mission, the first manned launch of the Saturn IB launch vehicle, and the first three-man American space mission.

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4:02pm

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Full Moon

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4:03pm

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Full Moon

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(1997) Cassini Probe to Saturn Launched

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(1989) STS-34 Atlantis Launch - Galileo; Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (SSBUV)

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(1993) STS-58 Columbia Launch - Spacelab SLS-2

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(1977) Charels Kowal discover's Chiron - A large asteriod which orbits between Saturn and Uranus.

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(1967) Venera 4 - Soviet Venus probe landing.

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(1847) John Hind discovers Asteroid 8 Flora.

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(1967) Mariner 5 Venus probe - Venus Flyby.

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(1995) STS-73 Columbia Launch - United States Microgravity Laboratory - 2 (USML-2)

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(1632) Christopher Wren's Birthday.

He was a 17th century English designer, astronomer, geometer, and the greatest English architect of his time.

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Orionid Meteor Shower Peaks.

These meteors are derived from Halley's Comet. Under good skies, 30-40 faint meteors per hour can be seen.

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(1897) Yerkes Observatory's Birthday.

Home to a 40" refracting telescope, the largest telescope in the world at the time of construction and still the largest refacting telescope.

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7:55am

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Last Quarter Moon

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7:55am

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Half Moon (waning)

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(2007) STS-120 Discovery

STS-120 is the 23rd shuttle mission to the International Space Station, and launched an Italian-built U.S. multi-port module Harmony for the station.

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(1946) V2 no. 13 launched from WSPG carrying APL camera to 65 miles

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(1950) Lark missile first launched at Cape Canaveral

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(1877) Henry Russell's Birthday.

Co-creator of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram which demonstrates the life cycle of a star.

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7:14pm

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New Moon

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7:15pm

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New Moon

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(1951) V2 no 66 fired from WSPG

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(1998) STS-95 Discovery Launch - John Glenn's Flight; SPACEHAB

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(1985) STS-61-A Challenger Launch - D-1 Spacelab mission (first German-dedicated Spacelab)

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