Volume 15 Issue 4 April 2009
This Month-At-A-Glance Calendar
02. First Quarter Moon
Original Astronauts-1959
05. Launch of Pioneer 11-1972
04. Pluto Begins Retrograde Motion
Cassini Flyby of Titan
09. Full Moon
11. Launch Of Apollo 13-1970
13. Apollo 13 Has Problems
15. Mars Very Close to Uranus
16. Launch of Apollo 16-1972
17. Last Quarter Moon
Venus Resumes Direct Motion
Apollo 16 Lands on Moon-1972
21. Mars at Perihelion
Mars, Venus, and Uranus Close
22. Lyrid Meteor Shower
25. New Moon
Deployment Of HST-1990
Happy B'day Jumpin' John
26. Mercury at East Elongation
27. Apollo 16 Returns - Splash Down
29. Venus Greatest Magnitude (-4.5)
30. Mercury Very Near Beehive Cluster