Daily Extra :
Quote Of The Day
God does not play dice.
Albert Einstein
Today in History:
1917: Birthday Allen Greenwood, deputy CEO, British Aerospace
1964: Zond 1964A - Attempted Lunar Lander (Launch Failure)
1994: Ulysses - USA & Europe Solar Flyby (October 6, 1990) made first solar polar passage in June. The Ulysses spacecraft is an international project to study the poles of the Sun and interstellar space above and below the poles. It used Jupiter for a gravity assist to swing out of the ecliptic plane and onward to the poles of the Sun. The Jupiter flyby was on February 8, 1992. The spacecraft passed the solar equator in February 1995 and passed over the north pole in June 1995.
1995: Ulysses - USA & Europe Solar Flyby (October 6, 1990) passed over the Solar north pole. The Ulysses spacecraft is an international project to study the poles of the Sun and interstellar space above and below the poles. It used Jupiter for a gravity assist to swing out of the ecliptic plane and onward to the poles of the Sun. The Jupiter flyby was on February 8, 1992. Made first solar polar passage in June 1994.The spacecraft passed the solar equator in February 1995.