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On 2/10/2016 at 7:03 PM, The Raging Sandwich said:

Well, I also started it on your birthday!  Look at the first post!

Not the point... that was a gift, you're going to take that gift away from me next birthday... :(

On 2/10/2016 at 3:38 PM, HoloYolo said:

Did not know that. Thanks for the language lesson.

Well, no thanks needed... Google is my friend... it translated it for me. :)

 

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3 hours ago, kiwi1960 said:

Not the point... that was a gift, you're going to take that gift away from me next birthday... :(

Well, I guess I'll have to keep going with it then. Thanks for the suggestion.

Also, it must be cool to have your birthday on the launchday of Apollo 11! I'm jealous. My birthday is just one day off from July 4th.

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On October 3, 1815, a meteorite made of a chunk of rock from Mars fell onto France. It was later called Chassigney.

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On October 3, 1935, US astronaut Charles (Charlie) Duke was born. He was the Capsule Communicator (CAPCOM) for the Apollo 11 landing. He flew on Apollo 16 and became the tenth man on the Moon.

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On October 3, 1951, US astronaut Kathryn (Kathy) Sullivan was born. She flew on several shuttle missions, including the repair mission for the Hubble space telescope. She was the first American woman to conduct an EVA.

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On October 3, 1962, another meteorite from Mars fell on Nigeria. It was named Zagami.

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On October 3, 1962, Mercury MA-8 (Sigma 7) and its crew of astronaut Schirra was launched into orbit on the most perfect Mercury Mission conducted.

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On October 3, 1985, STS-51-J and its crew of 5 was launched into orbit. It was the first flight of the Atlantis. It deployed the probes USA 11 and USA 12, two military communications satellites.

It orbited Earth 63 times in a span of about 4 days. It set a crewed altitude record until May of 1993. It landed at Edwards AFB on October 7.

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On October 3, 1988, STS-26 and its crew of 5 landed back at Edwards AFB.

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On October 3, 1994, the Soyuz TM-20 spacecraft and its crew of 3 launched into orbit on a mission to the Russian Mir space station. It docked on October 6, just after midnight.

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19 hours ago, kiwi1960 said:

Well, it makes sense... the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics ....

Soyuz means "Union" in Russian.

* slaps forehead *

And the new PTK is named Federaton/Federatsiya.

...I'm still miffed it's not Gagarin.

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6 hours ago, The Raging Sandwich said:

On October 3, 1985, STS-51-J and its crew of 5 was launched into orbit. It was the first flight of the Atlantis. It deployed the probes USA 11 and USA 12, two military communications satellites.

It orbited Earth 63 times in a span of about 4 days. It set a crewed altitude record until May of 1993. It landed at Edwards AFB on October 7.

Can you elaborate a bit on the altitude record? I thought Gemini 11 held the manned orbital altitude record. 

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On October 4, 1957, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth was launched- Sputnik 1. The small Soviet probe ultimately kicked off the Space Race between the USSR and the US, which would end in 1969 after the success of the Apollo 11 mission. Sputnik 1 had no scientific experiments, but constantly transmitted radio bleep bleep until October 25. It reentered the Earth's atmosphere in January of 1958.

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On October 4, 1959, the Soviet Luna 3 spacecraft was launched. It was the third satellite successfully launched to the Moon and became the first one to send back images of the lunar far-side to Earth. 

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On October 4, 1965, the Soviet Luna 7 spacecraft was launched. It was to make a soft touchdown on the lunar surface. Due to premature retrofire, the spacecraft impacted the Sea of Storms.

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On October 4, 1999, the first World Space Week was held. It commemorates Sputnik 1 and the UN peace treaty that was signed in 1967. It is held 10/4-10/10.

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On October 4, 2004, original US Mercury Program and Gemini Program astronaut Gordon Cooper died.

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7 hours ago, The Raging Sandwich said:

On October 4, 1957, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth was launched- Sputnik 1. The small Soviet probe ultimately kicked off the Space Race between the USSR and the US, which would end in 1969 after the success of the Apollo 11 mission. Sputnik 1 had no scientific experiments, but constantly transmitted radio bleep bleep until October 25. It reentered the Earth's atmosphere in January of 1958.

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Aaaand guess which branch of the Soviet-Russian armed forces celebrates its day today!

Spoiler

 

Oh, look I've turned the abundance of Soyuz rockets on this thread up to 11.

10 hours ago, kiwi1960 said:

Only if you're concerned about these things... I'm not...

Some are, excessively.

Spoiler

 

 

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On October 5, 1885, Robert Goddard, the man who made the first liquid fuel rocket, was born.

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On October 5, 1929, US astronaut Richard Gordon was born. He flew on Gemini 11 and Apollo 12.

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On October 5, 1984, STS-41-G and its crew of 7 launched into orbit on an 8 day mission. It deployed the ERBS, which investigated the radiation in the upper atmosphere of Earth. The shuttle carried with it two experiments that were conducted in orbit.

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On October 6, 1964, the Soviet Union launched an unmanned Voskhod spacecraft, dubbed Cosmos 47, for a 1 day mission into orbit. It would test the effects of the upper atmosphere and space on the Voskhod. 50 people watched the launch including several cosmonauts and cosmonaut candidates. It was recovered on October 7.

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On October 6, 1990, STS-41 and its crew of 5 launched into orbit on a 4 day mission. It deployed the Ulysses spacecraft, which put itself in a polar orbit of the Sun. With its payload, it carried nine experiments. I landed back at Earth on October 10.

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On October 6, 1997, STS-86 and its crew of 8 landed back at Cape Canaveral after a mission to the Russian Mir space station.

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On October 7, 1906, James Webb was born. He was the Administrator of NASA from 1961-1968, the peak of the space race. Today, NASA is building the James Webb space telescope in his name.

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On October 7, 1964, the Soviet Cosmos 47 spacecraft, an unmanned Voskhod test flight, returned to Earth. After orbiting 17 times in the span of just over a day, the spacecraft retrofired to bring it back down from Orbit. After landing safely, the high winds in the area made the parachute drag the capsule along the ground for quite a distance.

On October 7, 1985, STS-51-J and its crew of 5 landed back at Edwards AFB after a mission into orbit.

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On October 7, 2002, STS-112 and its crew of 6 launched into orbit on an 11 day mission to the ISS. It extended the truss system and tested a rail-cart system. It landed back at Cape Canaveral on October 18.

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On October 7, 2010, the Soyuz TMA-01M and its crew was launched into orbit on a mission to the ISS. It docked with the station on October 10 1 minute after midnight on Earth. It and its crew undocked on March 16, 2011 and returned to Earth.

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On October 9, 1604, German astronomer Johann Kepler observed a supernova, dubbed Supernova 1604 or Kepler's Nova.

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On October 9, 1968, changes were completed to the Apollo 7 mission as a result from the Apollo 1 fire.

On October 9, 1977, the Soyuz 25 spacecraft and its crew of 2 was launched into orbit on a mission to the Salyut 6 space station. It failed to dock with the station and was deemed unsuccessful.

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On October 9, 2004, Maxime Faget, the man who designed the Mercury, Apollo, and STS spacecraft, died.

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On October 9, 2006, the Cassini Saturn spacecraft did a flyby of the moon Titan.

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Weird, so Titan is actually orange, but Tekto in OPM looks like this photograph... Kraken attack?

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