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||1981 – Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer (b. 1912) | ||1981 – Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer (b. 1912) | ||
||Ernst Stuhlinger (d. May 25, 2008) was a German-American atomic, electrical, and rocket scientist. After being brought to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip, he developed guidance systems with Wernher von Braun's team for the US Army, and later was a scientist with NASA. He was also instrumental in the development of the ion engine for long-endurance space flight, and a wide variety of scientific experiments. Pic. | |||
||2008 – NASA's Phoenix lander lands in Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life. | ||2008 – NASA's Phoenix lander lands in Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life. | ||
Revision as of 11:39, 31 March 2018
986: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi dies.
1889: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky born. He will pioneer both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
1981: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov publishes study on applications of quantum electronics research in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1961: Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.