December 30th in Astronomy and Space Science
![]() | 1930 | American physicist Robert Goddard launches one of his liquid fuel rockets from Roswell, New Mexico. It reaches a record height of 600 m (2,000 ft). |
![]() | 1985 | Voyager mission scientist Stephen Synnott discovers Puck, a moon of Uranus, in images returned from the Voyager 2 spacecraft. |
![]() | 2000 | The US-European-Italian Cassini-Huygens spacecraft makes a gravity assist loop around Jupiter. It has also swung around Venus twice, and the Earth once to gain enough velocity to propel it to Saturn, its final destination. |