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On 9 December ...1993: Astronauts put Hubble back in actionA mission to repair the faulty Hubble telescope in outer space has been declared an unqualified success after astronauts completed the latest...
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I remember talking to my son about that when it happened. What Christmas cards? Do you have a link?
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Dang! Sorry I forgot to put in the link. Here goes:news.bbc.co.uk -- on this dayandhubblesite.org
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On 13 December ...1958: Monkey lost after space flightThe search for a small bushy-tailed monkey fired into space in the nose cone of a Jupiter rocket has been called off.news.bbc.co.uk -- on this...
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On 14 December we remember two events ...1962: 'Music of spheres' hails Venus fly-byThe unmanned US spacecraft, Mariner 2, has taken the first-ever scan from space of the planet Venus.news.bbc.co.uk...
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16 December: 1993: Astronauts put Hubble back in actionThat seems more recent than that but when you think of the zillions of images Hubble has given us, maybe it has been a while!
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