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AUGUST 11
* Deimos, Martian moon, discovered (1877).
* Voyager 2 detected partial ring system of Neptune. Voyager's distance at that time was 2,722,940,000 miles from Earth and 12,218,000 miles from Neptune (1989).
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* Echo 1 was launched (1960).
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* Shuttle's first departure from 747 carrier aircraft in flight test (1977).
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* Zond 7 landed in the Soviet Union after orbiting the Moon, taking pictures from lunar orbit of 1,243 miles (2,000 km), and using atmospheric skip to slow reentry (1969).
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* NASA Ozone Mapping Spectro- meter (TOMS) is launched aboard Soviet Meteor 3 satellite (1991). TOMS Photo is of Earth's southern hemisphere and oval ozone hole.
* Former Soviet Cosmonaut Valeri Bykovsky states he trained for manned lunar flight scheduled for 1968 (1989).
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* Ticker-Tape parade for Apollo 11 crewmen in Houston, Texas (1969).
* Kittinger made highest parachute jump, 102,800 feet (1960).
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* Phobos, Martian moon, discovered (1877).
* First transatlantic trip in a balloon (1978).
* 50 people set a world record for flying in a single hot air balloon (Lelystad, Netherlands, 1988).
*Soviets launched first hybrid rocket (liquid/solid Propellant) (1933).
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AUGUST 18
* Cassini reported seeing a satellite of
Venus (1686).
* Helium discovered on the Sun (1868).
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AUGUST 19
* Orville Wright born (1871).
* Herschel discovered Enceladus,
moon of Saturn (1787).
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* Viking 1 launched (1975).
* Voyager 2 launched (1977).
* First loop of aircraft performed by
Lt. Peter Nesterov in France (1913).
* Full Earth Day
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AUGUST 20
