* Carolyn Shoemaker discovered her 14th comet, making her the greatest living comet hunter (1988).

* First manpowered flight across the English Channel by Paul MacCready's "Gossamer Albatross" pedaled by pilot and champion cyclist Bryan Allen. It took 2 hours and 49 minutes to cross using the 75 foot long plane (1979).

* Pioneer 10 became first manmade object to escape the solar system, 2.814 billion miles from the Sun (1983).

* JSC Visitor Center Mural by space artist Bob McCall dedicated: "Opening the Space Frontier‹the Next Giant Step," (1979).

* Pioneer 10 was 3,410,939,980 miles from Earth at noon CDT (1985).

* The first Titan IV boost rocket was launched by the U.S.A.F. from the Cape (1989).

* Franklin flew a kite during a thunderstorm (1752).

* E.E. Barnard discovered a large white spot on Saturn (1903).

* First woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, was launched into orbit on the one-day Vostok 6 mission (U.S.S.R., 1963).

* Earl of Rosse (William Parsons) born (1800). At one time he owned the world's largest telescope‹as a hobby.

* First use of robotic arm remote manipulator system (RMS) to deploy and retrieve a satellite, STS-7 (1983).

* First U.S. woman in space, Sally Ride, aboard Shuttle flight STS-7 (1983).

* Canterbury monks reported the Moon hit by a meteor (1178).

* Viking 1 went into orbit around Mars (1976).

* Longest duration for a solar eclipse (7 min. 8 sec.) observed in the Philippines (1955).