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||1984 – Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
||1984 – Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
||Charles Stark "Doc" Draper (d. July 25, 1987) was an American scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which made the Apollo Moon landings possible through the Apollo Guidance Computer it designed for NASA.


||2003 – Ludwig Bölkow, German aero engineer (b. 1912) Messer-262
||2003 – Ludwig Bölkow, German aero engineer (b. 1912) Messer-262

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