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Volume 7 Issue 05May 2001
This Month At-A-Glance Calendar

01. Death of Brave Bessie Coleman (1926)
04. Launch of Satellite Lageos 1 (1976)
Launch of Magellan probe to Venus (1989)
05. Launch of Freedom 7 Spacecraft and First American in Space - Alan Shepard (1961)
06. Mercury Near Saturn
07. Full Moon
Crash of the Hindenburg (1937)
09. Launch of Luna 5 (1965)
10. Comet Halley Closest To Earth (1910)
Neptune Stationary In Orbit
11. Mars Stationary In Orbit
14. Launch of Skylab (1973)
15. Last Quarter Moon
Launch of Mercury 20/Faith 7 and Astronaut Gordon Cooper (1963)
Uranus Reaches Western Quadrature
16. Mercury Closest To Jupiter
18. Launch of Apollo 10 to Moon (1969)
20. Charles Lindbergh Takes Off From St. Louis (1927)
21. Lindbergh Lands In Paris (1927)
(his luggage arrives two days later!!)
22. New Moon
Mercury Greatest Eastern Elongation
24. Launch of Mercury 7/Aurora and Astronaut Scott Carpenter (1962)
25. "...landing a man on the Moon..."
John F. Kennedy (1961)
Saturn in Conjunction With Sun
26. The First Astronauts Go Aboard The Skylab Space Station (1973)
29. First Quarter Moon
Uranus Stationary In Orbit


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