2024 – Odysseus Moon Lander IM-1, Last contact. It was the first US lander on the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972, had a lopsided touchdown, lost power and went dormant as it entered a frigid lunar nightfall, ending its mission.
2010 – MRO Image of Mars: Sand Dunes in the Spring.
1504 – Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies.
Birthdays
1936 – Jack R. Lousma, American colonel, astronaut and politician. Selected in NASA Astronaut Group 5. He was the CAPCOM recipient of the “Houston, we’ve had a problem” message from Apollo 13. He was the pilot for Skylab-3 and was commander on STS-3 logging a total of over 1,619 hours in space.
