Ok, so we've had a thread which was supposed to be turned in to a repository for space happenings, but since that wasn't it's original purpose, it died off.

So I am starting this thread specifically for people to post things that are going on in space, or related to space, such as telescopes, space missions, satellites etc.

Here is one coming up next year - June 6th 2012
Venus will transit the Sun.
NASA - 2004 and 2012 Transits of Venus

Picture of visibility


It only happens every 100 years, and then 8 years after that.
It's only been observed 6 times before, since the telescope was invented.




If you have any more, please post them! I will put them in my calendar and try to update this the day before they are going to happen.