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This is Space History For November.
1 Werner Von Braun heads German liquid fueled rocket
development(1932).
Asteroid Chiron discovered(1977).
2 Harlow Shapley born(1885).
3 Laika becomes the first animal launched into orbit by USSR(1957).
Mariner 10 launched 1st flyby pictures of Venus, first mission
to Mercury(1973).
5 ATS-3 launched by US to take first pictures of full Earth
disc(1967).
7 Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets
(1918).
8 Edmund Halley born(1656).
9 First unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module
(1967).
10 USSR launches Zond 6 to moon(1968).
11 Gemini 12 launched. Takes first solar eclipse photos from space(1966).
12 Voyager 1 makes closest approach to Saturn (1980).
13 Mariner 9 orbits Mars(1971).
14 Apollo 12 launched to moon(1969).
15 Johannes Kepler dies(1630).
15 Willim Herschel born(1738).
16 Skylab 4 launched. To complete longest US space flight, 2017
hours(1973).
20 Edwin Hubble born(1889).
21 J. de Rozier makes 1st balloon flight(1783).
22 Arthur S. Eddington dies(1944).
25 1st Soviet liquid rocket attains altitude of 261 ft.(1933).
26 First Meteor photograph(1885).
29 Mercury launches a chimp called Ham(1961).