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This month in space history for September
1 Pioneer 11, 1st craft to fly by Saturn(1979).
2 The asteroid Juno discovered(1804).
3 Viking 2 lands on Mars (1976).
4 NASA launches its first Orbital Geophysical Observatory
(OGO-1)(1964).
5 Voyager 1 is begins 3 year cruise to Jupiter and Saturn(1977).
7 Bell X-2 sets Unofficial world's altitude record for manned
aircraft 126,000+ feet(1956).
9 Almalthea, moon of Jupiter, discovered(1892).
Viking 2 launched (1975).
11 James Jeans born(1877).
12 USSR launches Luna 2, first craft to impact another celestial
body.(Moon,1959).
Gemini 11 achieves rendevous and docking during 1st
orbit(1966).
USSR Launches Luna 16 to Moon(1970).
14 USSR's Zond 5 is launched on 1st circum lunar flight(1968).
Leda, Moon of Jupiter, Discovered by Charles Kowal(1974).
16 James Jeans dies(1946).
17 Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of the Moon(1968).
19 Hyperion, moon of Saturn, discovered(1848).
20 German rocket engineers begin work in US(1945).
21 Luna 16 leaves the Moon(1970).
22 Zond 5 completes flight(1968).
23 J. Galle discovers Neptune using calculations by U.J.J.
Leverrier and J.C. Adams(1846).
24 First Automated return of lunar sample by Luna 16(1970).
26 Cosmonauts Titov and Strekalov are saved from their exploding
Soyuz T-10 booster by the launch escape system(1983).
28 Edwin Hubble dies(1953).