Daily Extra :
Quote Of The Day
We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air & soil; all committed for our safety to its security & peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing, half slave—to the ancient enemies of man—half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day.
No craft, no crew can travel safely with such vast contradictions. On their resolution depends the survival of us all.
Adlai Stevenson (1900–65)
Adlai Stevenson (1900–65)
Who Was Born Today?:
1939: O P Kolomitsev, cosmonaut
1942: Arnaldo Tamayo-Mendez, Cuba, cosmonaut, Soyuz 38
1942: Arnaldo Tamayo-Mendez, Cuba, cosmonaut, Soyuz 38
Who Died Today?:
Today in History:
1959: First jet passenger service across the United States begun by American Airlines with Boeing 707's.
1964: Unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit
1976: Zeiss planetarium in Hague destroyed by fire
1984: Space Shuttle 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched
