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On This Date in History - January 24

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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

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.

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