Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Downlink/2020/October

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  only three hours later at 08:48:47 UTC.
• The OSIRIS-REx probe successfully makes brief touchdown and collects a sample from the asteroid Bennu at 22:13 UTC on 20 October 2020.
• Expedition 63 ended on 21 October 2020, 23:32 UTC after 187 days, 21 hours and 38 minutes duration.
• Expedition 64 began on 21 October 2020, 23:32:00 UTC. With ISS commander: Sergey Ryzhikov, and astronauts: Kathleen Rubins & Sergey Kud-Sverchkov.
• Soyuz MS-16 landed on 22 October 2020, 02:54:12 UTC after 195 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes in space.

John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman and politician. He was the third person and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. Following his retirement from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a Democratic United States Senator from Ohio; in 1998, he flew into space again at age 77.

Captured on Oct. 20, 2020 during the OSIRIS-REx mission’s Touch-And-Go (TAG) sample collection event, this series of images shows the SamCam imager’s field of view as the NASA spacecraft approaches and touches down on asteroid Bennu’s surface, over 200 million miles (321 million km) away from Earth.

New Members:

• F.Alexsandr (Joined on the 8^th October)
• Dndlp (Joined on the 18^th October)
• Path slopu (Joined on the 23^rd October)
• Wehwalt (Joined on the 24^th October)
• Whoop whoop pull up (Joined on the 24^th October)
• Josecurioso (Joined on the 29^th October)

Number of active members: 91.
Total number of members: 295.

1. NG-14
   (October 2^nd at 01:16:14)
2. Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L12 (October 6^th at 11:29:34)
3. Long March 3B - Gaofen 13 (October 11^th at 16:57)
4. Soyuz - ISS 63S
   (October 14^th at 05:45:04)
5. Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L13 (October 18^th at 12:25:57)
6. Falcon 9 - Starlink V1.0-L14 (October 22^nd at 15:31:34)
7. Soyuz - GLONASS-K (October 25^th at 19:08:42)
8. Long March 2C - Yaogan 30-07 (October 26^th at 15:19)
9. Electron
   - In Focus (October 28^th at 21:21:27)

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