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June – RFC 2616 defines HTTP/1.1, the version of Hypertext Transfer Protocol in common use. September 21 – David Bowie's Hours becomes the first complete music album by a major artist available to download over the Internet in advance of the physical release. [2] First working 3-qubit NMR computer demonstrated at IBM's Almaden Research Center.
The timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their natural satellites charts the progress of the discovery of new bodies over history. Each object is listed in chronological order of its discovery (multiple dates occur when the moments of imaging, observation, and publication differ), identified through its various designations (including temporary and permanent schemes), and the ...
List of space telescopes; New Frontiers program; Out of the Cradle – 1984 book about scientific speculation on future missions. Space Race; Timeline of artificial satellites and space probes; Timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their moons; Timeline of first orbital launches by country; Timeline of space exploration
The month of February brought some unbelievably exciting discoveries in the study of space, and with it even more out of this world images. Most notably, scientists detected a "chirp" from ...
[4] [5] 20 February 1947 First animals in space (fruit flies). United States V-2 [4] [6] 24 February 1949: First two-stage liquid-fueled rocket, that sets a record altitude of 244 miles (393 km) (WAC Corporal missile mounted onto a V-2 rocket). United States Bumper-5: 14 June 1949: First mammal in space (Albert II, a rhesus monkey). First ...
Such discoveries are often a multi-step, multi-person process. Multiple discovery sometimes occurs when multiple research groups discover the same phenomenon at about the same time, and scientific priority is often disputed. The listings below include some of the most significant people and ideas by date of publication or experiment.
An international team of astronomers is calling this one a 'game changer.'
With a refocusing of the program in 2000, the Deep Space series was renamed "Space Technology." Deep Space 1 (DS1) is a spacecraft dedicated to testing a payload of advanced, high-risk technologies. Launched on October 24, 1998, the Deep Space 1 mission carried out a flyby of asteroid 9969 Braille, the mission's science