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			Current events for August 31, 2012 <<-Previous day Return to calendar Next day->> Events in space history for 08/31: Full Scale model of Saturn V rocket (110 meters tall) was removed from the Domtower of Utrecht (The Netherlands) after being displayed at the Space '86 exhibition (1986). Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collided with the Sun (1979). President Kennedy signs the Satellite Act. This created COMSAT (1962).