January
6th – Liisi Oterma was born – 1915
8th – Galileo Galilei died – 1642
Galileo Galilei died, 1642
9th – Caroline Herschel died – 1848
20th – Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. aka Buzz Aldrin was born – 1930
27th – Beatrice Tinsley was born – 1941
27th – Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee died in a test run for Apollo 1 – 1967
28th – Emily Warren Roebling died – 1903
28th – Ronald Erwin McNair aka Ron McNair died – 1986
31st – Explorer-1 was launched from Cape Canaveral, FL, USA – 1958
February
3rd – Luna 9 soft-landed on the Moon, it was the first spacecraft to do so – 1966
5th – Apollo 14 landed on the moon – 1971
10th – Wilhelm Röntgen died – 1923
13th – Chuck Yeager was born – 1923
15th – Galileo Galilei was born – 1564
18th – Perseverance and Ingenuity landed on Mars – 2021
19th – Nicolaus Copernicus was born – 1473
22nd – Jeri Lynn Ryan (née Zimmermann) was born – 1968
24th – Katherine Johnson died – 2020
23rd – Majel Barrett-Roddenberry was born – 1932
27th – Leonard Nimoy died – 2015
March
2nd – Pioneer 10 launched – 1972
4th – Sir Patrick Moore was born – 1923
4th – Alenush Terian died – 2011
9th – Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Yuri Gagarin) was born – 1934
13th – William Herschel discovered Uranus – 1781
14th – Frank Frederick Borman II, bka Frank Borman was born – 1928
16th – Caroline Herschel was born – 1750
18th – Aleksey Leonov was the first to ‘space walk’ from Voskod 2 – 1965
22nd – William Shatner was born – 1931
22nd – James T Kirk was born – 2233
23rd – Beatrice Tinsley died – 1981
25th – James Arthur Lovell Jr. bka Jim Lovell was born – 1928
26th – Leonard Nimoy was born – 1931
27th – Wilhelm Röntgen was born – 1845
27th – Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Yuri Gagarin) died – 1968
27th – Venera-8 landed on Venus – 1972
April
1st – TIROS 1 (weather satellite) launched from USA – 1960
4th – Liisi Oterma died – 2001
6th – Pioneer 11 launched – 1973
12th – Yuri Gagarin was the first person to orbit the Earth in Vostok 1 which launched from Earth – 1961
28th – Michael Collins died – 2021
May
1st – National Space Day
2nd – Astronomy Day
4th – National Star Wars Day – May the 4th Be With You
First Friday in May – National Astronaut Day
I call it Everyday Spacer Week!!!
5th – Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. aka Alan Shepard became the first American to fly in space – 1961
Second Sunday in May – Mother’s Day
9th – Alvan Graham Clark died – 1897
10th – Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was born – 1900
25th – Ruby Payne-Scott died – 1981
28th – Ruby Payne-Scott was born – 1912
June
9th – Alvan Graham Clark died – 1897
12th – Margherita Hack was born – 1922
14th – Margaret Bourke-White was born – 1904
16th – Valentina Tereshkova (first woman in space) launched from USSR in Vostok 6 – 1963
Third Sunday in June – Father’s Day
26th – Syncom 2 launched from USA, it was the first geostationary satellite in orbit – 1963
29th – Margherita Hack died – 2013
30th – National Meteor Watch Day
July
4th – Marie Curie nee Maria Salomea Skłodowska died – 1934
10th – Alvan Graham Clark was born – 1832
14th – Mariner 4 sent back to Earth, the first pictures of Mars – 1965
19th – Brian May was born – 1947
20th – Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Landed on the Moon – 1969
21st – Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. aka Alan Shepard died – 1998
23rd – Vera Rubin was born – 1928
August
5th – Neil Armstrong was born – 1930
6th – Hiroshima – 1945
6th – moratorium on the testing of nuclear weapons – 1985
11th – Discoverer 13 (reconnaissance satellite) recovered a payload from orbit for the first time – 1960
21st – Katherine Johnson was born – 1918
27th – Margaret Bourke-White died – 1971
Found 5/2/22 & had to share: George Jetson’s birthday will be on August 22, 2022
25th – Sir Frederick William Herschel died 1822
25th – Neil Armstrong died – 2012
27th – Margherita Hack died – 1971
September
14th – Luna 2 hard landed on the Moon – 1959
15th – Inspiration4, SpaceX launched First All-Civilian Crew to orbit for 3 days – 2021
18th – Inspiration4 Crew returned to Earth – 2021
23rd – Emily Warren Roebling was born – 1843
Emily Warren Roebling depicted with the Brooklyn Bridge which she finished supervising it’s completion in the late 1800s.
October
4th – Sputnik 1 was launched from USSR – 1957
7th – Luna 3 got the first pictures of the Moon’s side we can’t see from Earth – 1959
17th – William Alison Anders was born – 1933
21st – Ronald Erwin McNair aka Ron McNair was born – 1950
31st – Michael Collins was born – 1930
November
3rd – Laika (a dog) was launched from USSR – 1957
3rd – Sputnik 2 was launched from USSR – 1957
7th – Marie Curie nee Maria Salomea Skłodowska was born – 1867
9th – Alenush Terian was born – 1921
9th – Dr. Carl Sagan was born – 1934
15th – Sir Frederick William Herschel was born – 1738
18th – Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. aka Alan Shepard was born – 1923
27th – Ada Lovelace, nee Augusta Ada Byron died 1852
December
7th – Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin died – 1979
7th – Chuck Yeager died – 2020
9th – Sir Patrick Moore died – 2012
10th – Ada Lovelace, nee Augusta Ada Byron was born – 1815
14th – Mariner 2 sent first data from Venus to the Earth – 1962
18th – Majel Barrett-Roddenberry died – 2008
20th – Dr. Carl Sagan died – 1996
21st – Apollo 8 was launched – 1968
22nd – Wilhelm Röntgen x-rayed his hand – 1895
The First X-Ray Ever Taken Was Of A W. C. Röntgen’s Hand
X-ray technology is not something new. It has been around since December 22, 1895. A man by the name of Wilhelm Röntgen is the one who took the first X-ray. Naturally, he X-rayed a very easy-to-reach part of the body: the hand. The X-ray technology in the 1800s wasn’t the technology we know today, but it did provide the first look at the skeleton through the skin without having to perform any kind of autopsy.
25th – Sir Isaac Newton was born – 1642
25th – Vera Rubin died – 2016
27th – Apollo 8 landed – 1968
