Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
				01	02	03 Earth - Perihelion Quadrantids
04 (Week 01) Isaac Newton 6:56am» First Quarter Moon 6:57am» Half Moon (waxing)	05 Latest Sunrise	06 Lunar Prospector Surveyor 7	07 Blue Scout I	08 Luna 21 Launch	09 STS-32	10 10:27pm» Full Moon 10:27pm» Full Moon
11 (Week 02) STS-72	12 STS-81 STS-61-C	13 B-58 Hustler STS-54	14	15	16 STS-107	17 9:46pm» Last Quarter Moon 9:46pm» Half Moon (waning)
18 (Week 03)	19 Gemini 2	20	21 Little Joe 1B	22 STS-89 Apollo 5 LM STS-42	23	24 STS-51-C
25 (Week 04) IRAS	26 2:55am» New Moon 2:56am» New Moon 2:59am» Annular Solar Eclipse	27 Apollo 1 Fire Pasiphae	28 Challenger Lost	29	30	31 Mercury Redstone 2 Apollo 14 Explorer I

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Earth at closest point to the Sun for the year. (0.983 AU From Sun) ~91.5 million miles

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Quadrantids Meteor Shower Peak - Can have a very strong peak, however it is very short lived.

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(1643) Isaac Newton's Birthday - Law of Gravity and three Laws of motion.

Link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton

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6:56am

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First Quarter Moon

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6:57am

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Half Moon (waxing)

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Latest Sunrise of the year for mid-north latitudes. While the shortest day of the year is Dec. 21 or 22, the latest sunrise occurs about two weeks after, while the earliest sunset occurs about two weeks prior. It is the opposite for the southern hemisphere.

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(1998) Lunar Prospector Launch (Moon Orbiter)

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(1968)Surveyor 7 Launch (Moon Lander)

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(1961) USAF Blue Scout I reached near 1000 mile altitude from Atlantic Missile Range

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(1973) Luna 21 Launch (USSR Moon Lander/Rover)

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(1990) STS-32 Columbia Launch - Defense Communications Satellite

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10:27pm

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Full Moon

Time:

10:27pm

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Full Moon

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(1996) STS-72 Endeavour Launch - SFU; OAST-Flyer

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(1997) STS-81 Atlantis Launch - 5th Shuttle-Mir Docking

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(1986) STS-61-C Columbia Launch - SATCOM KU-1

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(1961) B-58 Hustler breaks six world speed records

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(1993) STS-54 Endeavour Launch - Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-F (TDRS-F); Diffuse X-ray Spectrometer (DXS)

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(2003) STS-107 Columbia Launch - Space Hab

Time:

9:46pm

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Last Quarter Moon

Time:

9:46pm

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Half Moon (waning)

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(1965) Gemini 2 unmanned reentry test

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(1960) Little Joe 1B max Q abort test

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(1998) STS-89 Endeavour Launch - Eighth Shuttle-Mir docking

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(1968) Apollo 5 unmanned LM launch test

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(1992) STS-42 Discovery Launch - International Microgravity Laboratory-1 (IML-1)

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(1985) STS-51-C Discovery Launch - Department of Defense (DOD)

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(1983) IRAS Launch - Infrared Astronomical Satellite

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2:55am

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New Moon

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2:56am

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New Moon

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2:59am

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Annular Solar Eclipse

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(1967) Apollo 1 fire

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(1908) Philibert Melotte's Discovery of Jupiter Moon Pasiphae

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(1986) STS-51-L Challenger Launch - Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-B (TDRS-B); SPARTAN-203 - Vehicale lost during launch

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(1961) Mercury Redstone 2 launched with Ham the chimp

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(1971) Apollo 14 Lunar Landing launch - Shepard, Roosa, Mitchell

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(1958) Explorer I, first US satellite launched on a modified Jupiter-C

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