2010 – Mars Rover Spirit rests for winter on Sol 2169.
2000 – Endeavour STS – 99 launched for Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, the first human space flight of the 21st century.
1999 – Pluto Crosses Neptune ‘s Orbit And Becomes the Farthest Planet From the Sun. Pluto will remain the most distant planet until it crosses Neptune’s orbit again in April, 2231.
1997 – DiscoverySTS-82 launched for second Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
1938 – BBC Television produces the world’s first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term “robot“.
Birthdays
1960 – Richard Mastracchio, American engineer and astronaut has flown on three NASA Space Shuttle missions as a mission specialist in addition to serving as a flight engineer on the Soyuz TMA-11M (Expedition 38/Expedition 39) long-duration mission aboard the International Space Station.