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21 April 11:48 Proton-K Baikonur Site 81/23 Roskosmos Priroda: Roskosmos Low Earth (Mir) Mir module: 23 March 2001 05:50: Successful 24 April 12:27 Delta II 7920-10 Vandenberg SLC-2W Boeing IDS MSX: BMDO: Sun-synchronous Infrared astronomy: In orbit: Successful Member of the Space Surveillance Network: 24 April 13:00 Kosmos-3M Plesetsk Site 132 ...
July 5 – Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell, is born at The Roslin Institute in Scotland. [8]August 6 – NASA announces that the Allan Hills 84001 meteorite thought to originate from Mars, may contain evidence of primitive life-forms; [9] further tests are inconclusive.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 February 2025. Miss Baker, a squirrel monkey, rode a Jupiter IRBM (scale model of rocket shown) into space in 1959. Landmarks for animals in space 1947: First animals in space (fruit flies) 1949: First primate and first mammal in space 1950: First mouse in space 1951: First dogs in space 1957: First ...
Category: 1996 in outer space. 8 languages. ... Astronomical objects discovered in 1996 (1 C, 967 P) S. 1996 in spaceflight (2 C, ...
1996 in outer space (2 C) P. 1996 in paleontology (1 C, 3 P) R. ... List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1996; April 1996 lunar eclipse; September 1996 ...
Chimpanzee Ham, who flew America's first suborbital space flight on Jan. 31, 1961, toasts NASA's anniversary by sampling a Skylab space drink on Oct. 01, 1973 at the National Zoo in Washington D.C.
First plants and animals to return alive from Earth orbit. USSR Sputnik 5: 25 September 1960 First rocket engine fired in space. USA (NASA) Pioneer P-30 [13] 31 January 1961: First hominidae in space (chimpanzee Ham). First tasks performed in space. USA (NASA) M-R 2: 12 February 1961: First launch from Earth orbit of upper stage into a ...
We're heading toward the climatological peak time of year for major East Coast snowstorms.. On Jan. 6, 1996, 29 years ago today, one of the strongest such snowstorms, known as the "Blizzard of ...