Daily Extra :
Quote Of The Day
I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of ambrosia, the food of the gods.
Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)
Today in History:
Dec 19 1965: Gemini 7 splashes down after 15 days in space with Frank Borman and Jim Lovell aboard.
1972: Apollo 17 - USA Manned Lunar Lander (December 7-19, 1972) splashed down safely. Crew: Eugene A. Cernan, Harrison H. Schmitt, and Ronald B. Evans. Cernan and Schmitt landed on the moon on December 12, 1972. The landing site was Taurus-Littrow at latitude 20°10' N and longitude 30°46' E. They returned 110.5 kg of rock and soil samples. The astronauts covered 30.5 kilometers in the lunar rover during a 75-hour stay.
1973: Photograph of the Sun with giant (588,000 km across) solar flare taken from Skylab.
