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Quote Of The Day
We set sail on this new sea, because there is knowledge to be gained.
John F. Kennedy
Today in History:
1784: Astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel born in Minden, Westphalia (now Germany).
1969: Apollo 11 - USA Lunar Manned Lander (July 16-24, 1969) Crew: Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., Michael Collins. Apollo 11 was the first manned lunar landing, which took place on July 20, 1969. The landing site was Mare Tranquillitatis at latitude 0°67' N and longitude 23°49' E. Armstrong and Aldrin collected 21.7 kilograms of soil and rock samples and deployed experiments.
1972: Venera 8 - USSR Venus Lander arrived at Venus. It measure wind speed variations as it descended through the atmosphere: 100 meters/second above 48 kilometers, 40-47 meters/second at 42-48 kilometers, and 1 meter/second below 10 kilometers. It returned data for 50 minutes after it landed.
1994: Hubble Space Telescope - USA & Europe Telescope photographed the collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter.
1999: Deep Space 1 (DS1) - USA Asteroid and Comet Flyby - (launched 24 October 1998) flew by the Mars-crossing near-Earth asteroid 9969 Braille. The Deep Space 1 (DS1) is the first of a series of technology demonstration probes being developed by NASA's New Millennium Program. It again flew by comet Borrelly in September 2001.