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The Chinese probe Chang'e 4made humanity's first soft landing on the far side of the Moonon 3 January and released its Yutu 2rover to explore the lunar surface on the far side for the first time in human history. The first panorama from the far side of the Moon, captured by Chang'e 4lander. Israel's SpaceIL, one of the participants in the ...
Spaceflight. This is the timeline of known spaceflights, both crewed and uncrewed, sorted chronologically by launch date. Owing to its large size, the timeline is split into smaller articles, one for each year since 1951. There is a separate list for all flights that occurred before 1951. The 2024 list and lists for subsequent years contain ...
Unix time. 1546300800 – 1577836799. 2019 ( MMXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2019th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 19th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 10th and last year of the 2010s decade.
World Trade Center site. Coordinates: 40°42′42″N. The original Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1992. The site as it appeared twelve days after 9/11. The site as it appeared in 2012: The pools lie on the approximate site of each tower. Left is the North Tower and right is the South Tower.
First photographs of another planet from deep space . USA (NASA) Mariner 4: 15 December 1965: First orbital rendezvous (parallel flight, no docking). USA (NASA) Gemini 6A/Gemini 7: 3 February 1966: First soft landing on another world (the Moon). First photos from another world. USSR Luna 9: 1 March 1966: First impact into another planet (Venus ...
November 9 is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 52 days remain until the end of the year. Events [ edit ] Pre-1600 [ edit ]
Last launch. 18 May 2024; 2 days ago. ( 2024-05-18) Starlink is a satellite internet constellation operated by SpaceX [4] [5] providing satellite Internet access to most of the Earth. [6] [7] Starshield is a classified derivative of Starlink designed to be operated for and can host payloads for military or government purposes.
Creola Katherine Johnson ( née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020) was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. [1] [2] During her 33-year career at NASA and its predecessor, she earned a reputation for ...