1/* 2 * Space 3 * 4 * $OpenBSD: calendar.space,v 1.3 2006/10/31 18:11:54 jasper Exp $ 5 */ 6 7#ifndef _calendar_space_ 8#define _calendar_space_ 9 1001/02 Soviet rocket carrying Lunokhod-1 leaves the Earth's orbit 11 the first time ever (though did not reach the moon), 1959 1201/04 Quadrantid meteor shower (look north) 1301/31 "Ham" the chimpanzee soars into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, 1961 1401/31 Explorer I launched, 1958. Van Allen Belt discovered 1502/18 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory, AZ, 1930 1602/20 John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962 1703/03 Gemini III launched with Virgil Grissom and John Young on board, 1965 1803/16 Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn MA, 1926 1903/17 Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped 2003/18 Aleksei Leonov performs first spacewalk, 1965 2103/23 Mir station Flares Farewell after 15 years of service, 2001 2203/28 First reaction thrust motor demonstration, 1883 2303/30 Five rings around Uranus discovered, 1977 2404/12 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 1961 2504/12 Space Shuttle Columbia launched, 1981 2604/13 Apollo 13 aborts moon landing due to oxygen tank explosion, 1970 2704/21 Lyrid meteor shower 2805/05 Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space, 1961 2905/14 Skylab (first U.S. space station) launched, 1973 3006/03 Edward White becomes the first American to perform a "Space Walk", 1965 3106/13 Pioneer 10 flies past Neptune's orbit, and becomes the first human 32 artifact to travel beyond the orbits of all known planets, 1983 3307/11 Skylab enters Earth's atmosphere and is destroyed, 1979 3407/04 NASA's Pathfinder lands on Mars, 1997 3507/20 Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin land on moon, 1969 3608/03 First ICBM (P-7) test (5T of iron is launched to Kamchatka), 1957 3708/11 Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days) 3808/12 First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977 3908/19 Air Force cargo plane snares payload from Discoverer 14 spy satellite, 40 marking start of practical military reconnaissance from space, 1960 4108/25 First reaction thrust motor design, 1898 4208/29 Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975; 43 Nova Cygni 1975. 4410/01 NASA officially begins operations, 1958 4510/04 First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched, 1957 4610/10 Mercury at Superior Conjunction with Sun. Moves into night sky. (1984) 4710/18 Soviets announce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side, 1959 4811/03 Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing space dog Laika 4911/15 Space Shuttle Buran launched, 1988 5012/13 Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with "last" men to walk on moon aboard, 1972 5112/13 Geminid meteor shower (look south) 5212/24 Apollo 8 first manned lunar orbit, 1968 5312/30 Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies, 1924 54 55#endif /* !_calendar_space_ */ 56