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SPACE EVENTS CALENDAR
2008
July 1: Cassini Beginning of 1st extended
mission
September 5: Rosetta Flyby of asteroid (2867) Steins
September 19: Chandraayan-1 Launch of Indian lunar
orbiter
October 6: MESSENGER Second flyby of Mercury
October 8: STS-125 4th & final servicing mission to the Hubble
Space Telescope
October 12:
Shenzhou 7 Third Chinese crewed mission; 1st Chinese spacewalk
October 14:
Soyuz TMA-13 - 100th launch of Soyuz spacecraft; ISS Expedition 18
October 31: Planck
ESA's mission to study the cosmic microwave background
November 10: STS-126
Endeavour to deliver Multi-Purpose Logistics Module to ISS
December 1: Solar
Dynamics Observatory 1st mission in Living With a Star program
December 26: Equinox on Mars beginning of northern
autumn/southern spring
2009
Early:
Herschel ESA Infrared Telescope to be
launched with Planck
January 14: Stardust-NExT Earth Flyby
January 15:
Orbiting Carbon Observer Launch of
NASA Earth Science mission
February 12:
STS-119 Discovery to the ISS
February 16:
Kepler Launch from KSC of mission to search Earth-like planets
February 17:
DAWN Mars gravity assist flyby
February 27: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter/LCROSS Launch
from KSC
October 14:
Soyuz TMA-14 - ISS Expedition 19
April 15: Ares I-X First test launch of Ares I from Pad 39B at KSC
May 15: STS-127 Endeavour to the ISS
May 22: Solstice on Mars beginning of
northern winter/southern summer
July 30: STS-128 Atlantis to the ISS
August 11: Equinox on Saturn
beginning of northern autumn/southern spring
September 15:
Mars Science Laboratory Launch window
opens for Mars rover
September 30:
MESSENGER Third flyby of Mercury
October 15:
STS-129 Discovery to the ISS
October 27:
Equinox on Mars beginning of northern
spring/southern autumn
October (?): Phobos-Grunt/Yinghou-1 Launch of sample
return mission from Baikonur
December 10: STS-130 Endeavour to the ISS
(Late): SpaceShipTwo Virgin Galactic begins commercial sub-orbital
spaceflight
2010
February 11: STS-131 Atlantis to the ISS
April 8: STS-132 Discovery to the ISS
May 13: Solstice on Mars beginning of northern
summer/southern winter
May 31: STS-133 Endeavour to the ISS; last scheduled launch of the
Shuttle
June (?): Hayabusa
Sample return capsule lands in Australian Outback
July 10:
Rosetta Flyby of asteroid (21) Lutetia
July 10:
Mars Science Laboratory Earliest arrival date at Mars
September: Retirement of the Space Transportation
System
November 4: EPOXI (Deep Impact mothership) Flyby of
comet 103P/Hartley 2
November 13: Equinox on Mars beginning of northern
autumn/southern spring
2011
February 14:
Stardust-NExT Flyby of
Comet 9P/Tempel 1
March 18: MESSENGER Mercury Orbit Insertion
March 22: New Horizons passes the mean orbital
distance of Uranus
April 12: Vostok 1 - 50th
anniversary of the 1st human spaceflight
May 5: Freedom 7 - 50th
anniversary of the 1st American in space
August 11: Juno
Jupiter orbiter, 2nd New Frontiers Mission, launch window opens
September: DAWN
Arrival at (4) Vesta
2012
February 20: Friendship 7 - 50th anniversary of the 1st
American in orbit
April: DAWN Departure from (4) Vesta
2013
December 7: ExoMars European rover launch window opens
at Guiana Space Centre
2014
March: Orion 2 1st crewed flight of Orion to ISS
May: Rosetta Arrival at Comet
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
August 29: New Horizons passes the mean orbital
distance of Neptune
November: Philae Rosetta lander touches down on Comet
67P
2015
February: DAWN Arrival at (1) Ceres, the 1st dwarf planet to be
explored
July 14:
New
Horizons Flyby of (134340) Pluto & moons, Charon, Nix, Hydra
2019
June: Orion 15/Altair 2 First human
landing on the Moon in almost 50 years
July 20: 50th anniversary of the 1st human landing on the Moon
Submitted by David Stuart, August 01, 2008
NSS Seattle [Chapter of the National Space Society]
Prepared by
Ron Hobbs, Wednesday, July 30, 2008
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