2023 – 
NASA and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) announced the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon on Artemis II.
2002 – Life in Rocks in Space. NASA scientist Friedemann Freund confirms that sufficient levels of “hydrogen food” are available to a community of Archaea surviving without sunlight or organics deep in the rock of our planet and perhaps other rocks in space.
drilling project in Virginia.
2002 – Uganda – Eight glowing objects flew across the skies. Local people feared it was an attack from neighboring Congo. The UPDF spokesman, Major Shaban Bantariza of the army confirmed that the objects were meteorites, “rocks falling onto the earth from the outer space.” But the next day the falling rocks prove to be space junk.
1973 – Soviet Union launches Salyut 2 space station,
the second space station to be successfully launched (after Salyut 1) and the first military space station.
1966 – USSR – First lunar orbiter, Luna 10 was put into a selenocentric orbit and becomes the Moon‘s first man-made
satellite. Launched March 31, 1966 it fulfilled its mission and returned valuable data on gamma-emissions from the lunar surface and rocks.
1965 –SNAP 10A, the first nuclear reactor in space, was launched Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, USA.
Birthdays
1926 – Gus Grissom, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut NASA Group 1 1959, Mercury-Redstone 4, Gemini 3, Apollo 1(d. 26 January 1967)
