60 years ago today: United States Air Force launched Surveyor 2 on Atlas Centaur D.

https://www.playdeltav.space/r/on-this-day/09-20?s=bluesky&c=history

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Apollo 11’s historic moon bag was reportedly bought for just $995 and later sold for a staggering $1.8 million, turning a piece of space history into a remarkable collector’s treasure. 🚀🌕

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Houston was NASA's second-choice site for its Manned Spacecraft Center. Tampa's MacDill Air Force Base ranked first, until the Air Force kept it open. NASA named Houston on 19 September 1961. The center opened in September 1963.

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FUN FACT: An 11-year-old named Pluto! Venetia Burney suggested it over breakfast in 1930. Her grandfather shared it with an astronomer friend, and the observatory agreed. She lived to see New Horizons head to her planet.

Explore more: orbitalradar.com/academy #Pluto #SpaceHistory

After the recent COSPAR 46th Scientific Assembly in Italy this year, #ESAarchives looks at over 60 years of ESA-COSPAR collaboration.

COSPAR, the Committee on Space Research, was set up in October 1958 by the International Council for Scientific Unions.

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67 years ago today: US Navy launched Vanguard III on Vanguard.

Six hundred parts in the Delta-V garage, each stating what it costs in mass and what it buys back in thrust.

https://www.playdeltav.space/get?s=bluesky&c=history

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FUN FACT: Uranus was the first planet ever discovered with a telescope in 1781 — despite being mistaken for a star over a dozen times before! People had been seeing it for centuries, just not quite clearly enough.

Explore more fun facts: orbitalradar.com/academy

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Sept 18, 1980: Soyuz 38 launched Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez with Yuri Romanenko, docking with Salyut 6. Tamayo became first Cuban, first Latin American, first person of African descent in space.

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Before it flew, fans changed the shuttle's name from Constitution to Enterprise, proving that pop culture once shaped NASA's history. #spacehistory sugataai.com/blog/nasa-un...

🚀 Did you know? Star Trek fans helped make history!

🚀 When Star Trek inspired real space history! 🖖✨
Fans helped make NASA’s Enterprise shuttle name a reality.

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Back when I thought we'd be mostly worried about protecting other planets from our germs...

Me for @pastemagazine.bsky.social back in 2017

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#OTD: 15 September 2017, the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini mission concluded its remarkable exploration of the saturnian system in spectacular style, by plunging into the gas planet’s atmosphere 🧪🔭 (artist impression: NASA/JPL/Caltech)

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9 years ago today: Cassini's last orbit.

Cassini was flown into Saturn's atmosphere to protect the moons it had found might be habitable, transmitting until it broke up. 17 orbital launches have flown on this date.

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😮 One of the last images sent back from Saturn by the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft, this spectacular view of Enceladus setting behind Saturn was taken on 13 September 2017 🧪🔭

ciclops.org/view/8619/En... #Astronomy #Space #SpaceHistory @science.esa.int

Just out: Maximilian Arrouas' wonderful conference report at www.hsozkult.de/conferencere...

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#OTD 🔟 years ago: 14 September 2016, the first catalogue of more than one billion stars from ESA's Gaia satellite was published, the largest all-sky survey of celestial objects at that time 🧪🔭

esa.int/Science_Expl... #Astronomy #Space #SpaceHistory @esa.int @science.esa.int @astronomy.bsky.social

67 years ago today: Luna 2 reaches the Moon.

Luna 2 struck the lunar surface east of Mare Serenitatis, the first human-made object to reach another world. 24 orbital launches have flown on this date.

https://www.playdeltav.space/get?s=bluesky&c=history

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65 years ago today: NASA launched Mercury-Atlas 4 on Atlas LV-3B.

https://www.playdeltav.space/r/on-this-day/09-13?s=bluesky&c=history

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On this day in 1962, John F. Kennedy stood at Rice University and made the case for going to the Moon.
No American had even spent a full day in orbit.
Less than seven years later, humans were standing on the Moon.
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