/* * Interesting science dates collected at Infodrom * * http://cvs.infodrom.org/calendar/calendar.infodrom.science?cvsroot=infodrom * :pserver:anonymous@cvs.infodrom.org:/var/cvs/infodrom co calendar/calendar.infodrom.science * * $Id$ */ #ifndef _calendar_infodrom_science_ #define _calendar_infodrom_science_ /* Aero Space History */ Oct 4 First satelite Sputnik started, 1957 Nov 3 Second satelite Sputnik including dog Laika started, 1957 Mar 17 Satellit Vanguard 1 started, 1958 Apr 12 Yuri Gagarin started first trip into space, 1961 /* NASA History */ Jul 20 First landing on the moon, Neil Armstrong, 1969 Jan 28 Space shuttle Challenger (STS-51L) exploded, 1986 Apr 24 NASA transport Hubble space telescope into orbit, 1990 Feb 1 Space shuttle Columbia (STS-107) disintegrated, 2003 Dec 11 Start of the last visit of the moon by Apollo 17, 1972 Dec 14 End of the last visit of the moon by Apollo 17, 1972 Nov 2 International Space Station ISS resembled, 2000 /* Miscellaneous */ Mar 14 Alber Einstein born in Ulm, 1879 Apr 28 Kurt Friedrich Gödel born in Brünn, 1906 Sep 12 Stanislaw Lem born in Lwów, 1921 Mar 25 First colour TV manufactured, 1954 Apr 25 Bell Labs demonstrate the solar cell, 1954 Oct 18 Texas Instruments demonstrates first transistor radio, 1954 Aug 5 First ship (atomic submarine Nautilus) reaches the North pole, 1958 Mar 27 Stanislaw Lem died in Krakow, 2006 Apr 28 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker died, 2007 #endif /* !_calendar_infodrom_science_ */