* First manufacturing in space on board STS-3 produced 10-micron latex particles as a "standard refer- ence material" (1983).

* Wernher Von Braun born (1912). * Asteroid misses Earth by 480,000 miles (1989).

* First photograph (daguerreotype) of the Moon (1840).

* Ranger 9 impacted on Moon, 14:08 UT (1965). The photo at left was taken by Ranger 9. It was among thousands which showed the moon's surface in much greater resolution than ever before. Note the use of a simple analog clock for recording of time rather than digital recording of the elapsed time.

* Filming of "Future World" with Yul Brynner and Blythe Danner by Hollywood film company at Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas (1976).

* Titan, moon of Saturn, discovered (1655).

* Goddard's highest rocket flight, approx. 9,000 ft (1937). Photo of Goddard in Smithsonian Inst.

* Space tomato seeds planted at Johnson Space Center (1990). Earthbound seeds planted at the same time. After two weeks, space seeds had 85 percent gemination rate, Earth seeds 62 percent rate.

* Colonel Yuri Gagarin killed in a crash of his jet trainer. Col. Gagarin was the cosmonaut who piloted Vostok 1 as the first man in space (1968).

* Mariner 7 launched toward Mars (1969).

* Phobos 2 (Soviet Mars probe) ceased radio contact (1989).

* First flight of a seaplane. The plane, called a Hydrovion, was created by frenchman Henri Fabre. Using a 50 horsepower rotary engine, Fabre flew 1650 feet on water (1910).

* Goddard used gyroscopes to control a rocket (1935).

* Second asteroid, Pallas, discovered (1802).

* Mariner 10 passed by Mercury (1974).

* Asteroid Vesta discovered (1807)‹ only asteroid sometimes visible to naked eye.

* XL-15 reached 169,000 ft (1961). Note: The X-15 pictured at left has no air inlets. Why not? Could you call the X-15 the first Space Shutte?

* Soviets launch astrophysics module Kvant (means Quantum) for eventual docking with space station Mir.