2016 – Víctor Buso captured the initial burst of light from Supernova 2016gkg (indicated by red bars) in the spiral galaxy NGC 613, located 70 million to 80 million light-years from Earth. Credit: UC-Santa Cruz/Las Campanas Observatory.
2015 – APOD Global Ocean Suspected on Saturn’s moon, Enceladus. Image from Cassini spacecraft.
2000 – Landing of STS-106
1994 – Landing of STS-64
1963 – At a United Nations General Assembly President John Kennedy stated:
“in a field where the United States and the Soviet Union have a special capacity – the field of space – there is room for new cooperation, for further joint efforts in the regulation and exploration of space. I include among these possibilities,” he said, “a joint expedition to the moon. . . . Surely we should explore whether the scientists and astronauts of our two countries – indeed, of all the world – cannot work together in the conquest of space, sending some day in this decade to the moon, not the representatives of a single nation, but the representatives of all humanity.”
Birthdays
1960 – James Anthony ‘Jim’ Pawelczyk – American physiologist and astronaut 1996-1998. Candidate Payload Specialist for STS-90 Neurolab. 1 spaceflight, 15.9 days in space.