2010 – A new report “Defending Planet Earth” is released by the US National Research Council explores four main types of mitigation including civil defense, “slow push” or “pull” methods, kinetic impactors and nuclear explosions. It also asserts that responding effectively to hazards posed by NEOs requires national and international cooperation.
2010 – Aboard the International Space Station, astronaut T.J. Creamer sends the first unassisted Tweet from space.
1992– First Canadian Woman and neurologist in Space. Roberta Bondar flies aboard STS-42 in seat S6. She was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
1998 – Space shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-89 to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
1973 – The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of the US Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission.
1968 – Launch of Apollo 5, the first unmanned flight of the Apollo Lunar Module.
Birthdays
1592 – Pierre Gassendi, was a French philosopher, Catholic priest, astronomer, and mathematician. He was also an active observational scientist who published the first data on the transit of Mercury in 1631. The lunar crater Gassendi is named after him. (d. 24 October 1655)