Mannheim Steamroller released their seventh studio album, Fresh Aire VI, September 15, 1986. Like the Alan Parsons Projects, Mannheim Steamroller based their albums on different themes or concepts. Fresh Aire VI is based on Greek mythology.
It reached #155 on the Billboard charts, their first album to appear on the chart.
Just before 8am EDT today, Cassini, the spacecraft sent to study Saturn and her moons, sent her last signal. She plunged into the Saturnian atmosphere to end a massively successful mission. Launched October 15, 1997, she spent Cassini spent 7 years en route and arrived at Saturn in 2004. For 13 years, she has explored the gas giant and released the Huygens probe from the ESA to land on Titan, a first for a celestial body in the outer solar system.
Cassini did flybys of Jupiter, our moon and Asteroid 2685 Masursky. She discovered new moons Methone, Pallene, Polydeucesin, Daphnis, Anthe, Aegaeon and S/2009 S 1. I'm sure they will find a better name for the last one.
She also performed flybys of moons Titan, Phoebe, Enceladus, Iapetus, Rhea, Hyperion and Dione.
Seventeen countries joined together in this effort.
Eugene Trinh, born September 14, 1950 in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), South Vietnam, is the first Vietnamese-American in space! Although born in South Vietnam, his ancestry is Chinese, since his great-grandfather immigrated from China in the last 1800's. He moved with his parents to Paris, France when he was two and graduated from college in 1968. He came to America and received degrees in Columbia University, including a PhD from Yale in 1975.
He served as a payload specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-50) in June-July 1992. It was his only mission with NASA.
John Herrington, born September 14, 1958 in Wetumka, Oklahoma into the Chickasaw Nation, became the first enrolled member of a Native American tribe to fly in space. He flew aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-113) with Peggy Whitson (first flight) November - December 2002. It was the last shuttle mission before the Columbia disaster in 2003.
On his thirteenth day in space, he carried the flag of the Chickasaw Nation presented to him by the Chickasaw Nation's governor Bill Anoatubby. He performed 3 EVAs while working on the International Space Station, logging almost 20 hours in space.
Randy Jones, born September 13, 1952 in Raleigh, North Carolina, is the (original) sexy cowboy from the Village People. He started as a fashion model prior to his singing gig, and has been pursuing acting, starring in a number of television shows and movies.
He married his longtime boyfriend Will Grega May 7, 2004 in New York City.
After a short 6-hour flight, Mark Vande Hei, Joe Acaba and Alexander Misurkin, crew of Soyuz MS-06 have arrived safely at and are on board the Internation Space Station!
What a great time it was to be a kid! The first episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? aired September 13, 1969, What a Night for a Knight. The series has spawned dozens of spin-offs and movies over the last few decades.
By far one of my favorite TV shows EVER! I tried to watch every single one of them. This is the type of show Saturday mornings were made for.
