Volume 14 Issue 05 May 2008
This Month-At-A-Glance Calendar
02. Mercury Passes the Pleiades
03. Saturn Ends Retrograde Motion
  and is about 2 Degrees from Regulus
04. Launch of Magellan Probe
  to Venus-1989
05. New Moon
Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower Peak
Launch of Freedom 7 Spacecraft
  and First American in Space -
   Alan Shepard-1961
06. Mercury passes the Hyades
07. Crash of the Hindenburg-1937
09. Jupiter Begins Retrograde Motion
Launch of Luna 5-1965
10. Space Day
12. First Quarter Moon
13. Mars at Aphelion
14. Mercury at Greatest East Elongation
Neptune at West Quadrature
Launch of Skylab-1973
15. Launch of Mercury 20/Faith 7
  and Gordon Cooper-1963
18. Launch of Apollo 10 to Moon-1969
20. Full Moon
Charles Lindbergh Takes Off
  From St. Louis-1927
21. Lindbergh Lands In Paris-1927
  (luggage is missing!!)
22. Saturn at East Qudtrature
Mars near center of the Beehive Cluster
24. Launch of Mercury 7 Aurora
  and Scott Carpenter-1962
25. "...landing a man on the Moon..."
  John F. Kennedy-1961
26. Neptune begins Retrograde Motion
Mercury begins Retrograde Motion
The First Astronauts Go Aboard The
  Skylab Space Station-1973
28. Last Quarter Moon