2010 – UK Space Agency becomes an executive agency of the department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
2002 – China Shenzhou III unmanned module returns to Inner Mongolian Earth.
1976 – English Astronomer Patrick Moore caused a phenomenon when stating there would be a noticeable reduction in Earth’s gravity by a Jovian-Plutonian alignment on that day. đ
1960 – USA – First weather satellite, Tiros 1 (Television Infrared Observation Satellite), launched. It completed 1,302 orbits and returned 22,952 cloud cover photos before its operational life ceased on 29 June 1960.
TV Weather will never be the same.
Birthdays
1973 – Sergey Volkov was a member of three missions to the International Space Station. Soyuz TMA-12 (Expedition 17), Soyuz TMA-02M (Expedition 28/29), Soyuz TMA-18M (Expedition 45/46)
1946 – Dr William Frederick Fisher an American physician and a former NASA astronaut. NASA Group 9 (1980) STS-51-I