1993 – Discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 by Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker and David Levy in a photograph taken with the 46 cm (1.51 ft) Schmidt telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California. And then confirmed by at the It was their ninth periodic comet discovery. On July 16, 1994, the now shattered comet smashed into Jupiter.
1992 – Launch of STS-45 carried the first Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS-1) experiments, placed on Spacelab pallets mounted in the orbiter’s payload bay.
Seated: Duffy and Bolden
1965 – NASA spacecraft Ranger 9 crash lands on the moon.
Birthdays
1932 – Lodewijk van den Berg was a Dutch-born American chemical engineer. He studied crystal growth and in 1985, at the age of 58, he flew to space on STS-51-B Space Shuttle Challenger as a payload specialist conducting crystal growth experiments. (d. 16 October 2022)
1893 – Walter Baade was the first to resolve the Andromeda galaxy’s companions into individual stars and developer of the concept of stellar populations in galaxies. He discovered 10 asteroids and was awarded the Bruce Medal in 1955. (d. 25 June 1960)