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Space History for March 28

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1802
Pallas was discovered by Heinrich Olbers, the second asteroid discovered.

1900
A Schwassmann discovered asteroid #454 Mathesis.

1910
Henri Fabre became the first person to fly a seaplane after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.

1922
Bradley A. Fiske of Washington, DC patented the first microfilm reading device.

1935
Robert Goddard launched the first rocket equipped with gyroscopic controls.

1947
The last episode of the "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" was aired on radio.

1948
Born, Wubbo J Ockels, Almelo Netherlands, astronaut (STS 22)

1968
T Smirnova discovered asteroid #3049.

1973
T Smirnova discovered asteroid #3071 Nesterov.

1982
E Bowell discovered asteroid #2873 Binzel.

1985
NASA's STS 51-D orbiter was moved to the launch pad.

1985 23:58:00 GMT
NASA launched Intelsat 5A F-10, a COMSAT Corporation commercial communications satellite, the first in a series of improved commercial communications satellites for Intelsat.

1986
The International Cometary Explorer measured the Solar wind ahead of Comet Halley.

1987
Stacking of the space shuttle Discovery's solid rocket boosters (SRBs) was started for the return-to-flight mission following the Challenger disaster.

1993
A Type II supernova was detected in M81 (NGC 3031).

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