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- October 1, 1958: NASA was formed.
- October 2, 1949: Paul Emlyn Crowther, the drummer for
Split Enz on their first two albums, was
born.
- October 3, 1935: Charles Duke, Apollo 16 lunar module pilot, was born.
- October 3, 1962: Wally Schirra spent 9 hours in orbit on the Mercury 8 mission.
- October 3, 1985: Space shuttle Atlantis lifts off on the 21st
shuttle mission.
- October 3, 1987: Star Trek: The
Next Generation premiered.
- October 4, 1957: The Soviets were the first to reach space when their Sputnik unmanned satellite was launched.
- October 4, 1969: Another Soviet first, the Luna 3 space probe orbited the moon and sent back pictures of 70% of
its far side.
- October 5, 1882: Robert Goddard, the American rocketry pioneer
who came up with the idea of putting something other than a bomb on top of a rocket,
was born.
- October 5, 1929: Dick Gordon, astronaut on the Gemini 11 and Apollo
12 missions, was born.
- October 5, 1950: Jeff Conaway, Babylon 5's Zack Allen and star of
Grease and Taxi, was born.
- October 5, 1984: Space shuttle Challenger lifts off with Robert
Crippen in the commander's seat. It is the second space flight for astronaut
Sally Ride.
- October 9, 1954: Scott Bakula, Quantum Leap's Sam Beckett and
Enterprise's Captain Jonathan Archer, was born.
- October 10, 1990: Space shuttle Discovery lifts off on a mission to
launch the Ulysses solar polar probe.
- October 11, 1968: The Apollo 7 mission was launched, a quiet test of
America's first three-man space vehicle in Earth orbit; it was the first Amercian
space flight since the Apollo 1 fire had killed three astronauts in January 1967.
- October 12, 1964: the Soviets launch their first three-man space vehicle, Voskhod 1.
- October 13, 1933: The prestigious British Interplanetary Society was founded.
- October 15: Mark Lenard,
Star Trek's
Sarek (Spock's dad), was born.
- October 15, 1951: Katy Manning, known best as spunky
Doctor Who assistant Jo Grant, was born.
- October 17, 1933: Bill Anders, one of the first three men to orbit the moon aboard Apollo 8,
was born.
- October 18, 1989: The Galileo space probe departed on a six-year journey
to Jupiter from the cargo bay of space shuttle Atlantis (a previous direct
route was abandoned when its planned 1986 launch was scrubbed after the
Challenger explosion). It arrived at Jupiter in December 1996 and
launched the first probe ever to directly sample Jupiter's atmosphere. The findings
are still inconclusive, as the atmosphere probe happened upon a relatively clear
patch of the Jovian sky!
- October 18, 1993: Space shuttle Columbia launches, carrying the
Spacelab laboratory module for a series of life sciences experiments.
- October 20, 1941: Anneke Wills, one-time
Doctor Who companion Polly, was born.
- October 21, 1956: Carrie Fisher,
Star Wars' Princess Leia, was born.
- October 22, 1938: Christopher Lloyd was born.
- October 22, 1950: Mary Tamm, the first incarnation of Romana on
Doctor Who, was born.
- October 20, 1995: Space shuttle Columbia lifts off on mission number
STS-73.
- October 22, 1992: Space shuttle Columbia lifts off on mission number
STS-52.
- October 24, 1991: Gene
Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek,
died.
- October 25, 1955: Glynis Barber, who played Soolin in the
final season of Blake's 7 and may be better
known for starring in the TV cop series Dempsey & Makepeace, was born.
- October 27, 1939: John Cleese of Monty Python fame was born.
- October 27, 1953: Robert Picardo,
Star Trek's holographic doctor, was born.
- October 28, 1944: Actor/writer Ian Marter, who played Dr.
Harry Sullivan during Tom Baker's first season of Doctor
Who as well as writing many novelizations of the series episodes and even
co-writing (with Baker) an unproduced feature film script, was born. Marter
died on the same date in 1986 from complications from diabetes.
- October 29, 1991: The Galileo probe made history by becoming the first space
probe to study an asteroid, 951 Gaspra, while en route to Jupiter.
- October 28, 1998: Space shuttle Discovery lifts off. Among its crew
is 77-year-old Senator John Glenn, the oldest American astronaut and the first
American astronaut to completely orbit the Earth. He hasn't been in space
since his Mercury flight in 1962.
- October 30, 1985: Space shuttle Challenger lifts off, carrying the
first German Spacelab scientific module.
- October 31, 1930: Michael Collins, the command module pilot on the
historic Apollo 11 mission, was born.
- October 31: Norman Lovett, Holly I from
Red Dwarf, was born.
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