This Day In Astro History

Mar 11

2008 – STS-123 Launch for 15.76 days in space.

STS-123 Crew Portrait

1991 – Hubble Space Telescope takes first images of Jupiter.

Hubble snaps Jupiter

1960 – Pioneer V launched to investigate interplanetary space between the orbits of Earth and Venus.

Birthdays

1956 – Birthday, Curtis Brown American astronaut. NASA Group 12 (1987): STS-47, STS-66, STS-77, STS-85, STS-95, STS-103 Time in space: 57d 17h 07m.

Curtis Brown Insignia
Curtis Brown Insignia
Boris Petrov

1913 – Boris Nikolayevich Petrov – Russian engineer, Department Chief 1951-1980 of the Institute of Control Problems, chair of the Inter-Cosmos Council, which promoted cooperation in space among eastern European nations during the height of the Cold War, 1966-1980. (astronautix)(d. 23 August 1980)

Urbain Leverrier

1811 –Urbain Leverrier who predicted the existence of Neptune, which led to its discovery by Galle and d’Arrest on September 23 1846.