Daily Extra :
Astronomy & Space Word of The Day
crust: The outermost layer of a planet, i.e. the surface. On Earth, we live on the crust.
Who Was Born Today?:
1749: Pierre-Simon Laplace, mathematician/astronomer/physicist
1929: Albert H. Crews, astronaut
1929: Albert H. Crews, astronaut
Who Died Today?:
1961: Valentin Vasilyevich Bondarenko, cosmonaut, dies in accident age 24
Today in History:
1066: 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1965: Gemini 3 launched, 1st U.S. 2-man space flight (Grissom and Young)
2001: Russian Mir space station is crashed into the Pacific during a controlled re-entry
