Daily Extra :
Astronomy & Space Word of The Day
erosion: The process of physically removing weathered materials; the wearing away of soil and rock by weathering, mass wasting, and the action of streams, glaciers, waves, wind and groundwater.
Who Was Born Today?:
1952: William F Readdy, Quonset Point, Rhode Island, astronaut, STS 42, 51, 79
1961 Krasimir Mikhailov Stoyanov, Bulgaria, cosmonaut
1961 Krasimir Mikhailov Stoyanov, Bulgaria, cosmonaut
Who Died Today?:
Today in History:
1764: Gov Winthrop Telescope, is destroyed in a Harvard fire
1925: Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Island
1985: 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 is launched
1990: Muses-A - Japan Lunar Orbiters launched. This consisted of two small orbiters but failed to send back data from their orbit around the Moon. This was the first non USA or USSR probe to reach Moon.