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First dedicated and first published Earth observation images from outer space, first published on March 25, 1947. [9][10][11][12] July 26, 1948. First prepared wide-angle panorama of Earth from outer space (the 1946 flight did already record a panorama swing). [citation needed] October 5, 1954. Aerobee AJ10-24.
The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties", shortened to the "' 60s" or the "Sixties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969. [1]While the achievements of humans being launched into space, orbiting Earth, and walking on the Moon extended exploration, the Sixties are known as the "countercultural decade" in the United States and other Western countries.
20 June 1955: longest total eclipse between 1901 and 2000, lasting a maximum of 7 minutes and 8 seconds [a] 30 June 1973: a Concorde jet flew along the path, thereby extending the length of totality to 74 min. [5] 29 March 1987: second hybrid eclipse in less than one year, the first being on 3 October 1986. 11 July 1991: Solar eclipse with the ...
Find out how dump trucks, flamethrowers and Boy Scouts saved the day — and learn about a few more surprising facts from John F. Kennedy’s swearing in.
The timeline of human evolution outlines the major events in the evolutionary lineage of the modern human species, Homo sapiens, throughout the history of life, beginning some 4 billion years ago down to recent evolution within H. sapiens during and since the Last Glacial Period. It includes brief explanations of the various taxonomic ranks in ...
Here are our picks for albums that turn 60 this year and whose timelessness defies their vintage. ... Release date: March 1, 1964 ... and it sounds as raw and timeless today as it did 60 years ago.
Sixty years after his father’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin Luther King III and his wife, Arndrea, argue the work of those who marched on August 28, 1963, is not complete.
The Space Age is a period encompassing the activities related to the space race, space exploration, space technology, and the cultural developments influenced by these events, beginning with the launch of Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, [ 1 ] and continuing to the present. This period is characterized by changes in emphasis on particular areas of ...